[What Claude says is true enough. There is only so much another person can do to lead, when the root cause of something was in another. Not if you actually valued the other person, anyway, and allowing them the freedom to become their own being. ... Not that she actually knew much about that part.
Hayame chews instead of asking questions. Her tail swishes anxiously across the floor, the motion interrupted by the cushions. The longer this goes on... The more obvious it must be how unsuitable she is as a partner for such things as this. Normal things. She had dined with Amos Burton before, but Amos Burton was a very silent man. She'd had tea with Liem Talbott, but that had been brief, and what to speak about had been decided. So what is she supposed to do? She could just demand he come up with a topic, or ask a vague question to set him on a path, but.
It feels like a cop out. Cowardly, as she's ever proving in this realm. The silence stretches on, broken only by the soft clink of silverware and her chewing until suddenly she manages,]
- I have a half-brother.
[... A very smooth segueway.
- What? He'd said he had them. It's... something in common. Even if she knows the circumstances must be vastly different between the way a prince has numerous siblings and a breeding stable jinba does.]
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Hayame chews instead of asking questions. Her tail swishes anxiously across the floor, the motion interrupted by the cushions. The longer this goes on... The more obvious it must be how unsuitable she is as a partner for such things as this. Normal things. She had dined with Amos Burton before, but Amos Burton was a very silent man. She'd had tea with Liem Talbott, but that had been brief, and what to speak about had been decided. So what is she supposed to do? She could just demand he come up with a topic, or ask a vague question to set him on a path, but.
It feels like a cop out. Cowardly, as she's ever proving in this realm. The silence stretches on, broken only by the soft clink of silverware and her chewing until suddenly she manages,]
- I have a half-brother.
[... A very smooth segueway.
- What? He'd said he had them. It's... something in common. Even if she knows the circumstances must be vastly different between the way a prince has numerous siblings and a breeding stable jinba does.]