↣ After the Alenroux Northern Woods Exploration finally returned from their mission after some convenient time magic shenanigans, Hayame and the team leaders reported back to General Zaman about their results
↣ Hayame also collaborated with Liem to make a report on their findings public, though she eventually realized she needed to recuse herself from the comment section...
↣ In the wake of the Exalt Oracle's trial, she attempted to take it easy in order to recover from a broken leg, nightmares from Amos Burton's Fear spell, and the betrayal of finding out Liem Talbott has been hiding being a blood-sucker from her for over a year
↣ She also tried to take care of some "business", such as trying to plant some trees at her home in Alenroux and commissioning Rin to create something to conceal the smell of her heat
↣ When she investigate a monster sighting in Alenroux, it turned out to be Byleth transformed into a dragon?!
↣ After hearing that a Zenite with dog ears had been jailed for beating a Meridian on the streets of Springstar, she went to see for herself if it was Minegishi Gen... and ugh, unfortunately it was, he apparently didn't die after she shot him off a cliff in the Greenwood Yards
↣ On her way home one day, she was drugged and kidnapped by Sebastian Michaelis and taken to a makeshift surgery suite in Kowloon, where he got revenge on her last move in their long-standing enemy-ship by forcibly implanting a hag's eye into her empty eye socket sans anesthesia, then returned her to Springstar healed up and "whole"
↣ Despite her attempts not to call for help and let her failure be known, chaotic bits of Communion managed to reach several other shard-bearers she was connected to, putting her in position to need to lie, deny, lash out, or shamefully admit what happened to her
↣ When she returned home she was confronted by Claude, who pushed her for the truth until she broke and admitted it, finally collapsing into the hysterics she'd been holding back
↣ Since then, she has been suspiciously absent from her work with the Legionary beyond a message sent explaining she is temporarily too ill to be fit for duty, and she has not been seen in Springstar or Alenroux