[Hayame had admitted to not having much experience with children. Actually... she had less experience with the elderly. Her stable master had been the oldest human she routinely dealt with, and he was in his fifties. Most people did not make it to a ripe old age in the rough borderlands of the northeastern mountains, and though she had seen an elderly merchant or porter in her time... She had not interacted with them.
She'd certainly never met an elderly jinba. They did not survive that long in the breeding stables.
So the woman... looks so frail, up close. So weak. She's so distracted that she even lets the woman put something in her hand and then it's too late, she refuses to take it back and keeps prattling away independent of whatever Hayame actually says...
She returns to the tsukumogami's side with it in her hand.]
Here.
[She holds out her hand in order to try and gift it (force it) on Matsui instead.]
She provided payment and would not be refused.
[And he was the one who actually wanted to be providing these lanterns to people. She... She just didn't want to be alone, but couldn't admit it even to herself.]
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She'd certainly never met an elderly jinba. They did not survive that long in the breeding stables.
So the woman... looks so frail, up close. So weak. She's so distracted that she even lets the woman put something in her hand and then it's too late, she refuses to take it back and keeps prattling away independent of whatever Hayame actually says...
She returns to the tsukumogami's side with it in her hand.]
Here.
[She holds out her hand in order to try and gift it (force it) on Matsui instead.]
She provided payment and would not be refused.
[And he was the one who actually wanted to be providing these lanterns to people. She... She just didn't want to be alone, but couldn't admit it even to herself.]