[Hayame does not mind silence, usually. She is used to it far more than she is to talking, at any rate, because all her life she had never been encouraged to speak. Jinba were meant to be seen and not heard, to simply be obedient without protest. Even now that she has the right to speak, and uses it what she considers liberally... silence was more familiar. But this silence is...

Or maybe that's just because he is stroking his fingers through her mane, and it feels good, and distracting...

But little can distract her from the finality of that question.]

... Yes. I prefer to retire early.

[Early to bed, early to rise, and all that, but. As she surrenders her cup, and moves to begin undoing the outer layer of her robe...]

- I cannot lay on my side the whole night.

[She did not know if wyverns were the same, or he was familiar with horses in that way, but in a similar fashion... she was simply too heavy to lay down for more than a few hours without risking suffocating under her own body weight. She doesn't want to ask and compare herself to an animal, though, so she does not say it.]

I will likely disturb you at least twice.