[Hayame and Dextera are not friends. No one in Meridian would likely ever mistake that they were, considering one of the few times they had interacted in public had involved her pressuring him into an apology on all fours at a party attended by the entire faction. But when the lanky man slinks over to her and takes up his position in her would-be shadow...
She positions herself half in-front of him with a protective snarl as confidently and threateningly as if she was defending her kin. Because he had come to her asking for help in this very potential possibility, and she had sworn she would protect him from corruption. She would not be breaking her word. She would not allow more Meridian losses under her own nose.]
He won't, Amos.
[It's not like she doesn't notice he is still putting the full weight of his focus on Dextera, but she responds anyway, whether he's talking to her or not. If she sounds sure... it's because she is. Not because she believes in the other man's ability to resist... But because she believes in her own conviction. There are two former Meridian shards on her person as proof of that.]
Give it up.
[Her left forehoof stomps into the rooted ground, pawing an angry furrow into the dirt.]
no subject
She positions herself half in-front of him with a protective snarl as confidently and threateningly as if she was defending her kin. Because he had come to her asking for help in this very potential possibility, and she had sworn she would protect him from corruption. She would not be breaking her word. She would not allow more Meridian losses under her own nose.]
He won't, Amos.
[It's not like she doesn't notice he is still putting the full weight of his focus on Dextera, but she responds anyway, whether he's talking to her or not. If she sounds sure... it's because she is. Not because she believes in the other man's ability to resist... But because she believes in her own conviction. There are two former Meridian shards on her person as proof of that.]
Give it up.
[Her left forehoof stomps into the rooted ground, pawing an angry furrow into the dirt.]