[ She doesn't ask, and Akua cannot provide what is not asked for. She is no sage, or healer, or even great at being a friend. She's barely learned to embrace it herself, from the woman who ripped out her heart, and then stabbed her with a dagger. The woman who killed her own father before her eyes was the one who taught her about Friendship. It is the friendship of Villains, of people who knew that they would fight, disagree, and perhaps even kill each other.
But they were still friends.
In communion, Hayame will feel the sense of her hand holding Hayame's, warm, sure. Present. As if she held her hand, and then there is the feeling of her hand on Hayame's cheek, a ghost of it in communion. ]
I am your friend, Hayame, all you have to do is ask.
[ She says. She will not change herself. She will never truly be that different from the Doom of Liesse, even if she regretted the decision. She'd changed marginally, and became a person who would not partake in genocide, but she was still a villain. The scope of her arc truly was as far as she could go.
But Hayame... Hayame was so principled. So stringent. Stuck to the laws of her own code of honor, to what she saw was right. She could never accept such betrayal as a way of life. It was like asking Cordelia Hasenbach to look the other way as the Doom of Liesse joined with the Woe. Impossible. (Akua, of course, has no clue that she will be the 4th in a square involving said Hasenbach. Fun!)
So she can only promise: ]
But you must allow me trust, Hayame, that everything I do is for Meridian, in the end. I will not falter in that.
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But they were still friends.
In communion, Hayame will feel the sense of her hand holding Hayame's, warm, sure. Present. As if she held her hand, and then there is the feeling of her hand on Hayame's cheek, a ghost of it in communion. ]
I am your friend, Hayame, all you have to do is ask.
[ She says. She will not change herself. She will never truly be that different from the Doom of Liesse, even if she regretted the decision. She'd changed marginally, and became a person who would not partake in genocide, but she was still a villain. The scope of her arc truly was as far as she could go.
But Hayame... Hayame was so principled. So stringent. Stuck to the laws of her own code of honor, to what she saw was right. She could never accept such betrayal as a way of life. It was like asking Cordelia Hasenbach to look the other way as the Doom of Liesse joined with the Woe. Impossible. (Akua, of course, has no clue that she will be the 4th in a square involving said Hasenbach. Fun!)
So she can only promise: ]
But you must allow me trust, Hayame, that everything I do is for Meridian, in the end. I will not falter in that.