[Unharmonized. Hmm.

At least... One who seemed to recognize they had made a mistake, and was willing to apologize for it. Properly enough, too. Some people in this place did not know how to bow, and she had grown used to not seeing them, but when she did...

She returns it just slightly, more in the head than in the hips, but a good enough acknowledgement. ... It did not change the fact, however, that,]

Because you are newly arrived I will brook my umbrage, but consider this a lesson and a warning both. I am a jinba, not some beast.

The monsters you will meet in the Alenroux nights are just that. It is the ones in Kowloon who take on human faces. And I have nothing at all to do with their ilk.

[She almost ends it there, merely protecting her own reputation and dignity, but... Hayame remembers the gatherings following each full moon that she has attended each month since being invited when she was yet new to this place, the people on four legs who gathered there- no Shard-bearers among them but her, all men, women, and children who simply-]

Any "centaur" you meet from now is likely a citizen of Springstar, and I will not see them disrespected.