[Hayame hesitates, because she has not ever been someone who easily admitted to being bound to anyone. Even her own brother, she had never allowed him to call her "sister" where anyone else could hear. But Liem was...]
There is a part of him that has lived in me, ever since the dryad's games.
[Ever since the bond had been forced on them, and then she had accepted it, along with the choice of a warrior swearing to dedicate herself to the god of war for as long as they occupied the same world where such things were possible.
Has something happened to him? She cannot know the specifics, but what she does know is...]
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There is a part of him that has lived in me, ever since the dryad's games.
[Ever since the bond had been forced on them, and then she had accepted it, along with the choice of a warrior swearing to dedicate herself to the god of war for as long as they occupied the same world where such things were possible.
Has something happened to him? She cannot know the specifics, but what she does know is...]
And now it does not live.