[Manon doesn't have time to double-back, and so neither does Hayame. It wasn't the path she'd ever choose by herself, but... she wasn't some dumb horse who would balk at a steep path and not possess the brain to figure out the descent. There may be no leaping like her quarry, but she grits her teeth and hisses back to her rider,]
Stay low!
[Before she reaches back with one hand to grab Liem's leg and leaps into the tunnel. Each impact jars her forelegs to the bone, hooves skittering for footing in the dirt that occasionally crumbles beneath her, but she jumps in a zig-zagging pattern down after Manon with her other arm thrown out for balance or to catch herself against the wall as needed. The great gap between her and the others in pursuit is lessened as she does it, but she bursts back out of the steep section of the Tree's roots with a grunt and a half-stumble of her heavy body.
But she isn't about to let that stop her, sharp canines bared as she snarls back to Manon's words.]
Aetós is next. But if you think I nearly died getting your shard out of that forest only to let you run now with so much unanswered you have another thing coming, Manon.
[Liem actually died, but if he wants to air that grievance it is his place to do so, and so Hayame sticks to her own. She also flicks her wrist sharply and activates something in the foot-long bow grip she's been carrying in her hand, making the magically compact weapon suddenly expand to its natural six feet in length.]
I'll shoot any monster or Zenite that comes down here if that's what you need, so talk. What did you see in that Yima woman's manor? Is she working with that freak?
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Stay low!
[Before she reaches back with one hand to grab Liem's leg and leaps into the tunnel. Each impact jars her forelegs to the bone, hooves skittering for footing in the dirt that occasionally crumbles beneath her, but she jumps in a zig-zagging pattern down after Manon with her other arm thrown out for balance or to catch herself against the wall as needed. The great gap between her and the others in pursuit is lessened as she does it, but she bursts back out of the steep section of the Tree's roots with a grunt and a half-stumble of her heavy body.
But she isn't about to let that stop her, sharp canines bared as she snarls back to Manon's words.]
Aetós is next. But if you think I nearly died getting your shard out of that forest only to let you run now with so much unanswered you have another thing coming, Manon.
[Liem actually died, but if he wants to air that grievance it is his place to do so, and so Hayame sticks to her own. She also flicks her wrist sharply and activates something in the foot-long bow grip she's been carrying in her hand, making the magically compact weapon suddenly expand to its natural six feet in length.]
I'll shoot any monster or Zenite that comes down here if that's what you need, so talk. What did you see in that Yima woman's manor? Is she working with that freak?