[Her devotion to duty would always win over everything else. (Wouldn't it?) It bound her to Meridian to return home, it bound her to returning to the world where she was literal property over any other that would treat her better for the sake of fulfilling a promise and righting a wrong... and it prevented her from following the more selfish whimsies that made her wish she could just ask him to show her the grand city from which he came.
It stopped her from just being able to say... That of course she wished to see the places her friend loved, and those that had made him. But... if it were just a tiny hint, just a small betrayal of that desire...
Perhaps it was fine. (And perhaps they really could find the shard, and she could just say it properly--)]
Is it as you remembered it?
[She cannot help but ask as she prepares to follow him. Some people had mentioned... things that were strange. In her own world, she had... No one had recognized her. Not her stable master, not any of the children in the hidden village... So perhaps in Liem's, too...]
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It stopped her from just being able to say... That of course she wished to see the places her friend loved, and those that had made him. But... if it were just a tiny hint, just a small betrayal of that desire...
Perhaps it was fine. (And perhaps they really could find the shard, and she could just say it properly--)]
Is it as you remembered it?
[She cannot help but ask as she prepares to follow him. Some people had mentioned... things that were strange. In her own world, she had... No one had recognized her. Not her stable master, not any of the children in the hidden village... So perhaps in Liem's, too...]