[Not many people expressed the sentiment that anything Hayame said was correct. She did not... mesh well, it could be said, with the cultures, mortals, or thinking of many of her fellow shard-bearers, and she had grown weary of being told that she was wrong. Even if it comes off strange and... a little unhinged, the way he laughs...
She'll take it.]
I will not be laughing.
[She should be asking questions. She could be finding out more about the world he had come from, that might be enough like her world that it provided some comfort... but to do so also risked finding out that it was not so, that some superficial similarities were all there was...
And she did not wish to take that. Which left only-]
If you will be doing so, though, do it quietly.
[She begins to turn back to the path her hooves have worn in the grass, looking back over her shoulder.]
hayame is a conversationally constipated loser, so I think we can wrap hereish???
She'll take it.]
I will not be laughing.
[She should be asking questions. She could be finding out more about the world he had come from, that might be enough like her world that it provided some comfort... but to do so also risked finding out that it was not so, that some superficial similarities were all there was...
And she did not wish to take that. Which left only-]
If you will be doing so, though, do it quietly.
[She begins to turn back to the path her hooves have worn in the grass, looking back over her shoulder.]
I have practice to finish.