[... Nothing of celebration. It is not as if Hayame is not completely unused to such thought. She was critical of herself, proud and confident, but only because she had spent so much effort sharpening herself into hard, sharp steel by refusing to forgive failure. Still... when praise was do, it was do. It is not an intent to coddle the other woman that leads her to say,]
I might have been devoured by shadows, were you not at hand.
[It is merely fact worth noting, as shameful as it was for her to admit. But now... Now, she is confused just slightly by the chance in tense. She was a "Guardian", now she is... ? She is also an "Avenger"? (Side note, other worlds sometimes had such odd words for things...) But it is not Hayame's place to question, now. It was time for her to listen. (Even if being gifted goats was... well...)
And when she is done... and the silent stretches between them. Even if it seems like a question with an answer that can only be negative, can only be suffering...]
... What do daughters of Thanos, do?
[She wonders if it is anything like what stable breed jinba with both their arms do.]
crawls back from tokyo
I might have been devoured by shadows, were you not at hand.
[It is merely fact worth noting, as shameful as it was for her to admit. But now... Now, she is confused just slightly by the chance in tense. She was a "Guardian", now she is... ? She is also an "Avenger"? (Side note, other worlds sometimes had such odd words for things...) But it is not Hayame's place to question, now. It was time for her to listen. (Even if being gifted goats was... well...)
And when she is done... and the silent stretches between them. Even if it seems like a question with an answer that can only be negative, can only be suffering...]
... What do daughters of Thanos, do?
[She wonders if it is anything like what stable breed jinba with both their arms do.]