[She means to extend a hand to him, to offer her help in pulling himself from the strange cocoon of sap and roots and grave dirt, but…
Though she had let him ride astride her back in the heat of battle… she hesitates to touch him now, in a moment that is without the surge of desperation and fear that had allowed her to abandon the cultural mores that kept her so apart from the other shardbearers. She wanted- She wanted to, she knows it would be so easy for another, and yet… her fingers just curl in the soil instead of fastening around his hand, and he… He helps himself out.]
I did.
[She answers, instead, though she does not do much to his thanks but briefly bow her head. It wasn’t deserving of thanks. They had fought beside each other, and it had been her duty, as long as she’d drawn breath, to try and save him as well. Barely… she had managed it. Only barely.]
Are you-
[Hayame has been reminded all these days as she waited for him to revive that… She didn’t know how to care for another person. Even though she meant to, and she has brought things that she prepared… She swallows, awkwardly trying to make her exhaustion heavy limbs pick herself further out of her impromptu nap.]
Are you yet in pain? If you hunger, I have… water, and food.
[What did people who came back from the “dead” require?]
no subject
Though she had let him ride astride her back in the heat of battle… she hesitates to touch him now, in a moment that is without the surge of desperation and fear that had allowed her to abandon the cultural mores that kept her so apart from the other shardbearers. She wanted- She wanted to, she knows it would be so easy for another, and yet… her fingers just curl in the soil instead of fastening around his hand, and he… He helps himself out.]
I did.
[She answers, instead, though she does not do much to his thanks but briefly bow her head. It wasn’t deserving of thanks. They had fought beside each other, and it had been her duty, as long as she’d drawn breath, to try and save him as well. Barely… she had managed it. Only barely.]
Are you-
[Hayame has been reminded all these days as she waited for him to revive that… She didn’t know how to care for another person. Even though she meant to, and she has brought things that she prepared… She swallows, awkwardly trying to make her exhaustion heavy limbs pick herself further out of her impromptu nap.]
Are you yet in pain? If you hunger, I have… water, and food.
[What did people who came back from the “dead” require?]