[The both of them were women of action. It was why Hayame struggled so much with her recent attempts to improve her... expression. What words had any human ever desired or tolerated from a breeding stable jinba but "yes", "I apologize", or "I will see it done"? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. But her time in this place... Had it been over a year now? It had, and with that came...

Whatever the hell this is.

At least "this" came with free food.]

Maybe.

[It felt stupid to her, too, in some ways... to celebrate them for what they have done in the labyrinth trials. It was such... Even if they'd seen everything that happened in that place, and for some of them, that had been a lot... it did not mean they knew anything at all about what sort of people they were. The tone in Nebula's voice... It sounds so similar to the one she knew she used, when-]

... They only know what they saw. What we are here.

[... Not what they had done in their own worlds. Which reminds, she supposes.]

You said you were a "guardian", weren't you? [Something about saving a galaxy? A whole galaxy???] I thought you might be more used to this than me.