["Centaur" she is used to now. Many people have called her that, and she has come to accept that if she must be understood simply and quickly that this is the word she can use to describe her nature with the highest chance of success... but that did not mean she liked the word. It wasn't the right one. She was a jinba. The characters for "person" and "horse" together, one of the few words she knew how to read.]
Likewise.
[She did not say "thank you" easily, that was likely already evident. But she implies it, with a little bow of her head that sends the long waves of dark hair in her high tail pooling over her shoulder with a dry rustle from the vines now coursing through the strands.
There is more she could say. There is more, perhaps, that someone kinder or softer than her would say.
But Hayame has done what she meant to accomplish. Before the sense of understanding between them can risk becoming something foul or wrong, like so many of her attempts ended up...]
- Take care not to let Zenith affect you until we can finish this.
[That is all she says before she finishes passing him in the dirt tunnel and disappears back into the dark.]
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Likewise.
[She did not say "thank you" easily, that was likely already evident. But she implies it, with a little bow of her head that sends the long waves of dark hair in her high tail pooling over her shoulder with a dry rustle from the vines now coursing through the strands.
There is more she could say. There is more, perhaps, that someone kinder or softer than her would say.
But Hayame has done what she meant to accomplish. Before the sense of understanding between them can risk becoming something foul or wrong, like so many of her attempts ended up...]
- Take care not to let Zenith affect you until we can finish this.
[That is all she says before she finishes passing him in the dirt tunnel and disappears back into the dark.]