[When the Tribune had come to the stall in the eastern stables that Hayame called a residence (not a "home", nowhere in this world was her home), asking her to assist a certain General Zaman in training their troops in archery... Hayame had seized the chance she saw to do something concrete. Something that made sense, that she could understand, after days spent wallowing in defeat after the Scorching Isles unable to place what mistakes had been made and what could be done to ensure they wouldn't be made again.
Training she knew how to do. Had her groom not put a bow in her hand when she'd been but a yearling the second she grew strong enough to hold one? Had her food, shelter, and price not been determined by her results at it? She knows how to succeed at making a warrior, both as the one being molded and the one doing the shouting. (Matsukaze had told her to teach as she'd wish she'd been taught, not how he had... but that lesson is far from her, worlds away, and Hayame is so... angry.)
Which might explain why a a man with six arms and a simian woman come wandering into Gray's territory, neither particularly silent or hidden as they discuss (half-whine about) why "that woman" has brought them out to Alenroux. And when they find a different woman having lunch in the forest... they pause at the edge of the clearing, confused. Both are dressed as hunters and carry bows, with no identifying marks of allegiance anywhere... but Gray might possibly recognize them from the Springstar military headquarters.
They don't seem to recognize her, though. One of the six-armed man's hands moves to scratch at the back of his head awkwardly, looking at the woman he's with, who's hand-like feet shuffle, her mouth opens to ask What're ye doin' out all the ways here- ? before,]
The both of you are dead now.
[Hayame's voice rings out from behind them, where the larger and heavier woman had actually managed to conceal her presence somewhat well, the sound of her hooves muffled by soil and not stone, her passage through trees disguised as passing animal.]
If that woman were a monster, you would be its food. Does that please you to know?
[Both of the Springstar recruits look... real awkward. What are they even supposed to say to that? Is this gray-haired woman just going to sit there while they get a dressing down?! Is Hayame even going to greet Gray at all? IN A MINUTE, SHE IS BUSY.]
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Training she knew how to do. Had her groom not put a bow in her hand when she'd been but a yearling the second she grew strong enough to hold one? Had her food, shelter, and price not been determined by her results at it? She knows how to succeed at making a warrior, both as the one being molded and the one doing the shouting. (Matsukaze had told her to teach as she'd wish she'd been taught, not how he had... but that lesson is far from her, worlds away, and Hayame is so... angry.)
Which might explain why a a man with six arms and a simian woman come wandering into Gray's territory, neither particularly silent or hidden as they discuss (half-whine about) why "that woman" has brought them out to Alenroux. And when they find a different woman having lunch in the forest... they pause at the edge of the clearing, confused. Both are dressed as hunters and carry bows, with no identifying marks of allegiance anywhere... but Gray might possibly recognize them from the Springstar military headquarters.
They don't seem to recognize her, though. One of the six-armed man's hands moves to scratch at the back of his head awkwardly, looking at the woman he's with, who's hand-like feet shuffle, her mouth opens to ask What're ye doin' out all the ways here- ? before,]
The both of you are dead now.
[Hayame's voice rings out from behind them, where the larger and heavier woman had actually managed to conceal her presence somewhat well, the sound of her hooves muffled by soil and not stone, her passage through trees disguised as passing animal.]
If that woman were a monster, you would be its food. Does that please you to know?
[Both of the Springstar recruits look... real awkward. What are they even supposed to say to that? Is this gray-haired woman just going to sit there while they get a dressing down?! Is Hayame even going to greet Gray at all? IN A MINUTE, SHE IS BUSY.]