[Hayame is not exactly enjoying this celebration. It is most unlike the banquets she is used to attending ("attending", either as a silent guard at the entrance or on display for potential buyers, quiet and obedient). She does not appreciate having been made to change in a pastel, feminine dress...
But she does like the food. It is on a trip back from the buffet table, her plate laden high, that she accidentally meets the gaze of a man she knew from Highstorm, from Alenroux... and he asks her... something that to her seems...]
... You are a fool if you are asking a jinba to join a drinking game.
[Hayame has very little experience drinking alcohol beyond tiny saucers consumed for ritual purification... But she also knows that the reason her stable master had never bothered supplying liquor to the more well-treated armed jinba in his possession was that human drink did absolutely nothing for a species with a fast metabolism and a half ton weight.
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But she does like the food. It is on a trip back from the buffet table, her plate laden high, that she accidentally meets the gaze of a man she knew from Highstorm, from Alenroux... and he asks her... something that to her seems...]
... You are a fool if you are asking a jinba to join a drinking game.
[Hayame has very little experience drinking alcohol beyond tiny saucers consumed for ritual purification... But she also knows that the reason her stable master had never bothered supplying liquor to the more well-treated armed jinba in his possession was that human drink did absolutely nothing for a species with a fast metabolism and a half ton weight.