[There are those who would find it perverse to take contentment from what is essentially bad mouthing a member of one's same faction. But Hayame is has so little to content herself with, and she takes it where she can. Those she had thought (hoped) would come to... not her defense, because she did not need defending, but those she thought would profess support, who would condemn the man who maligned her so...

Where were those people when she had expected (wanted for) them? They had been nowhere.]

There is little more that needs be said upon it.

[This mercenary had been there. But Hayame has no experience in thanking people- not truly thanking, anyway. She knows how to do formal manners, but this is not... Her hooves shuffle awkwardly amongst the roots, her lips pursed and her posture stiff.]

I merely wished to draw attention to the fact that you have proper sense.