[Tens of thousands is a number Hayame has never been able to fully comprehend. Has she ever seen more than a hundred men at once, the number that made the trek to the outposts of Echigo for the breeding stable's Exhibition Day? It hadn't been until Horos, until Kenos, that she'd even seen cities as crowded as they were... so even though she had doomed dozens, killed several, committed acts she considered now to be unforgivable...
The scale is different.
One of Hayame's arrows fires, and then another, taking out more mirrors on Akua's other side- one right before an icy arrow can fire at them. Akua speaks with the words of a poet, but she- Hayame feels that she is nothing like that. It feels like she only knows just enough to recognize the damning sameness at the core, a sameness one shouldn't want with anyone, her own words trapped somewhere impotent as if she were letting Akua fight her battles for her-
There are so few mirrors left.
She moves to fire on another, chasing the shadow of the voice that says, In that pathetic mare's heart, I am real enough- !, but the doppelganger knows who is the bigger threat... the mage can destroy more ice, faster, and as Hayame turns her back...
A rearing, kicking centaur suddenly bursts towards Akua from one of the few icy surfaces remaining in a shower of glassy splinters.]
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The scale is different.
One of Hayame's arrows fires, and then another, taking out more mirrors on Akua's other side- one right before an icy arrow can fire at them. Akua speaks with the words of a poet, but she- Hayame feels that she is nothing like that. It feels like she only knows just enough to recognize the damning sameness at the core, a sameness one shouldn't want with anyone, her own words trapped somewhere impotent as if she were letting Akua fight her battles for her-
There are so few mirrors left.
She moves to fire on another, chasing the shadow of the voice that says, In that pathetic mare's heart, I am real enough- !, but the doppelganger knows who is the bigger threat... the mage can destroy more ice, faster, and as Hayame turns her back...
A rearing, kicking centaur suddenly bursts towards Akua from one of the few icy surfaces remaining in a shower of glassy splinters.]