🏹 To welcome in the New Year, Hayame bestowed the traditional gift of new clothing to her lover, friends, and closest allies. This included: Claude, Liem, Akua, Set, Yuri, Byleth, D, and Gray.
🏹 She discussed the escalating monster issue with Yuri over Communion, but it quickly became more about her accusing him of endangering Meridian with his willingness to invite Zenites to investigate the problem and what tiering up in Meridian might do to someone (OBVIOUSLY NOTHING BAD RIGHT?)
🏹 There was also a confrontation with Quetz over what happened to Silco's shard after she ended up with it during the Harbinger Oracle trial
🏹 When she ended up with more free food than she could handle courtesy a Meridian shard-bearer fan, she attempted to be a good mentor and called Nebula to partake... but oh, they both have complicated feelings about feeling deserving of praise
🏹 Summoned to Heliopolis, she was surprised to hear from the Tribune that she would receive the title of Decurion... and even more surprised when Cetina passed over a bracelet that would allow her to take a human form
🏹 Thinking that the human form could potentially be of use if she wished to help investigate Kowloon or ever needed to go incognito to Highstorm, Hayame determined to practice using it... and she's going to need it, balancing on two legs is hard?
🏹 She contacted Liem about both developments, and after hearing her fellow Decurion's advice about accepting the title... she entrusted him with the embarrassing sight of her first human transformation attempt and she tried to learn from him
🏹 Arriving back home to Alenroux to find that the young centaur filly who first invited her to the monthly Quadrupeds of Springstar gathering over a year go was playing with Claude, Hayame had a small crisis of the heart... and ended up awkwardly trying to play with a child, help
🏹 Which lead to her awkwardly approaching Akua in the middle of the night with the intent to ask a womanly question
🏹 When new shard-bearers appeared in Kenos, she attempted to convince Grace, Karlach, and Alice to join Meridian... Tactics and efficacy may vary, but she tried