[So it was intolerable that he chose! Twenty four... To think he really would somehow leap over her to seniority while acting like this? Fine, if she has to rely on the fact that her kind matured faster and lived shorter lives than humans to consider herself still the older between the two of them then so be it- !
But she doesn't expect him to suddenly say that.
Hayame has been called "beautiful", "handsome", and "elegant" ever since she blossomed from the leggy and tomboyish build of a yearling to a mature mare, and she has never doubted it as fact because... what prospective buyer would bother lying to her stable master about his property? But "cute"? Cute, like one would call a child, some innocent little maiden, or some tea waitress with loose morals?
She stiffens... and blushes more obviously, reaching back to snatch at his cloak and try to throw it off her flank and towards his face. (Not... a graceful move, from the somewhat limiting position of being a jinba on her side, but-)]
If you want to insult me, you can do it from outside my stall!
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But she doesn't expect him to suddenly say that.
Hayame has been called "beautiful", "handsome", and "elegant" ever since she blossomed from the leggy and tomboyish build of a yearling to a mature mare, and she has never doubted it as fact because... what prospective buyer would bother lying to her stable master about his property? But "cute"? Cute, like one would call a child, some innocent little maiden, or some tea waitress with loose morals?
She stiffens... and blushes more obviously, reaching back to snatch at his cloak and try to throw it off her flank and towards his face. (Not... a graceful move, from the somewhat limiting position of being a jinba on her side, but-)]
If you want to insult me, you can do it from outside my stall!