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[Lunatia's resident centaur lady is back on screen, starting out her post with her customary bow and smile.]

Hello, everyone! It's been a while since my last "post", I feel like there's probably so many new people here now...

My name is Konoha... If you don't know me yet, I'm a jinba... Or a "centaur" if you want! ... I'm from Tateyama in Japan, but lots of people say I'm from the past or that jinba don't exist, so I guess that's not very helpful? Anyway-

[She twirls the camera around, giving a panoramic view of the bucolic Tsurugi Farmstead and a large palomino centaur working in one of the fields before coming back to her face after she accidentally focuses on her front hooves.]

My husband and I run Tsurugi Farmstead in the Greatmoon Groves, and we're hoping to hire a few more extra hands to help out during harvests and planting! Which, um... Happens way more than I'm used to in my world, so...

[No one point out why that might be...]

You don't have to have experience farming, but you do need to be willing to work hard. It's not easy to work the earth, you know! It wouldn't be an every day sort of job, just a few days here and there throughout the month, but we pay in chroma money at the end of each day. And on days you work, you can take home a small basket of the harvest for yourself, and I'll provide lunch for free!

I guess I should use this chance to say that we also deliver, if you're looking for fresh vegetables and rice for yourself or your own business! Or you can find us on weekends at the green market... Wait, I feel like I'm forgetting something... Oh!

[As if remembering, she pulls out a piece of paper from the bear pelt tied around her "waist", checking it with a squint. Right-]

Also, my neighbors said I should mention that everything we grow here is... "organic". Apparently that's popular!

Thank you for your time, everyone! If you want to sign up for work or you have any questions, I'll answer you here, okay? And if you know where I can find a priest or priestess to bless the rice fields before planting, let me know, please!

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[Konoha wouldn't be the first or last person here to talk about how delicious rabbits are. And, look, Haru knows it. She's well aware of how desirable her meat is! It's part of the reality of being a small herbivore.

But she happily follows Konoha around to the side of the house, wagon trailing behind her as she does so. Her ears perk up, noting the way the plants near and around the veranda are growing.]

If it gets six hours or more of sunlight then it's perfect! I can leave the potted sunflowers here, and if you want I can help your plant them too.

[And if Konoha answers in the affirmative, at least in leaving the potted plants in the spot pointed out, Haru will begin to hoist one pot out of the wagon and set it down in an out-of-the-way spot.

And as Konoha continues with her hospitality, she laughs a bit. She kind of reminds her of her mom, in a way, with how much she's fussing about being a good hostess. Even the phrase "us girls" feels a bit old-fashioned!]

You'd be a good wife even if you weren't hospitable! But it is always nice talking to another female. I'll stay then, but only for a bit!

[She wonders if this is just how Konoha always has been, even before marriage, or if being a wife does change certain aspects about the way you conduct yourself. It...makes sense, in a way, and it has her wondering...]

[Don’t mind the way she blushes happily to herself at the praise (she thinks it’s praise? that’s what she’s going with), one hand rising to cup a cheek as if to try and contain her reaction to a less embarrassing level.]

Ehe, that’s good then!

[She keeps saying it will only be a short stay, but- Haru was probably busy with her own gardens, and technically Konoha had a lot of work to do herself. On a farm, there was always something to be doing, but since she wasn’t running things by herself she at least didn’t feel the need to work herself raw. There was plenty of time to occasionally enjoy herself or take a break... and explore or deal with (depending on the nature of) Lunatia’s strange happenings.]

Definitely more than six!

[Helpfully, Konoha picks up a pot in each hand, the easy way she moved making it obvious that to the strength of a jinba, whose human-looking half was possessed of a few more muscles and slightly different skeletal structure than actual humans, they were... basically like lifting an apple. That she sets beside where Haru put the first one, splaying her forelegs to lower herself and carefully turn the pots in place to show off the prettiest side of the terra-cotta. (What she thinks is the prettiest side!)]

So putting them in the soil is better? The pots are really nice, too... I’ll do whichever is best for them!

[Her medieval bumpkin is showing, but that’s fine!!! Growing flowers... like just for decoration. Amazing!]

[As Haru sets the pot down in the chosen area, she turns back to the wagon just in time to see Konoha hoist two pots with seemingly very little effort. She pauses, one ear flicking a bit from surprise; though...she really shouldn't be that surprised, huh? Horses are among the stronger herbivores, and from what Haru can tell humans seem made to also have the potential to be strong even with their varying shapes and sizes.

The way Konoha's horse half moves is still foreign to a rabbit still mostly familiar with animals who walk on two legs, so the way she maneuvers herself is really a sight to behold.]

Wow! [She heads back to grab the second-to-last pot after Konoha settles the two beside the first.] You really should stop by my garden sometime. You can help me move some things around!

[She's joking, making a small noise as she heaves the pot up and heads back over, setting it down carefully and wiping her hands together.]

Yeah, planting them in the ground will let them stretch their roots out a lot more. You can keep the pots, though! Maybe when you come to visit I can give you some zinnias. You can plant those in these pots and use them to decorate.

I gave you sunflowers to start because they're both a flower and a crop. [She reaches up, standing on her toes a bit, and taps at the head of the flower she just set down.] When the flowers droop and die, you can dry them out and collect the seeds, either to grow them again or to toast and eat.

[...]

I'm, uh, sure you knew that though.

[You shouldn't plantsplain to a farmer...]

[Konoha helpfully trots to grab the last one, hoisting it in both hands in order to more closely examine the face of the flower this time, not the type to try and interrupt the other woman or make a comment about how she may already know a thing or two about root systems and drying plants and vegetables.

Just like Haru says, this one does look like it would make lots of seeds... Exciting!]

The principles, sure, but- We don’t have these where I’m from, so that’s exciting! And “sunflowers” is a cute name.

[Konoha’s great grand children, perhaps, might catch a glimpse of them if Jinba or humans from the West imported them, but... she doesn’t know that! Instead, she sets the last pot down in the row and curiously examines the petals and stalk, humming in interest.]

I’ll plant them, then! So the “zinias” can have the pots.

[Course decided, Konoha happily wipes her hands on her apron, deciding to do the planting itself later if Haru didn’t have a lot of time. Gesturing for the other to follow, she heads towards the proper entrance to the house, pausing to grab a pick from a post and contort to quickly scrape and brush the dirt from her hooves.]

I don’t mind helping at all if you need anything moved at the garden! I can handle anything less than four logs weight!

[Just don’t ask her how much four full grown felled cedars weigh she doesn’t know.]

If Mister Legosi can’t handle it, I wonder what it is...

[Look, they’re “dating” doesn’t that mean he should be helping??? So if she asked Konoha it must be huge... !]

Isn't it? I think it's because they resemble the sun.

[She nods as Konoha examines the flowers and comes to her decision to plant them in the ground. She's got plenty of time, honestly. The community garden is self sufficient without her at this point, and the most she's been doing is getting things potted up and ready to sell at the groves for her first venture in raising money to support the garden.

Given the chance, Haru will help! Though Konoha no doubt works much faster than her tiny rabbit body could afford...

She follows Konoha to her house, removing her shoes before the step, watching intrigued as the jinba scrapes the dirt from her hooves.]

You know...I've never seen hooves up close before. [No animals have them in her world. It's all hands and feet. They seem a bit cumbersome.]

...Mister Legosi? He's hardly a mister. [Please...She rubs the back of her head, because it was a joke and not anything actually serious. But Konoha is someone who certainly takes things at face value.] But I wasn't actually being serious...it's just that there are always heavy things that need to be moved around in the garden. Legosi-kun helps whenever he can but I'm not going to be overly reliant on a guy just because we're together.

[See, "sunflower" made so much sense... the petals were yellow, it was big and round... Much better than ooinufuguri and names such as that!

Konoha can't help but laugh a little, though, when Haru says it's her first time to see hooves up close. It's just such a strange disconnect in her mind, animal people not knowing hooves and the like, but Louis had said the same thing, not to mention how he said lots of people asked him questions about his fingers...

So she keeps one foreleg in the air even as she hangs the pick back up, putting a hand on the post for balance instead as she extends the leg and waves it up and down, hoof rocking along with.]

Haha, that's right... Want to look?

[It's natural for her, but. Nice and thick, an unshod brown-ish grey hoof with a few cracks along the edges that could use some cream, the underside slightly paler with a soft frog. The same as the rest, except the hoof on her back right leg, which was a bit more cream-colored beneath her one white sock.

Haru isn't wrong that the jinba was the sort to take things at face value, but at least she had the wherewithal to realize she sometimes did so and made mistakes. Okay, so there wasn't anything specific to haul- That's still fine!]

Oh, I see... I get it! Miss Haru is really independent, huh? I guess that makes sense!

[After all... To keep up with a wolf she just assumes that a rabbit person probably had to make a lot of effort... and visa versa... It wasn't the most "natural" seeming thing, after all, so even without knowing their society intimately she can imagine that at least.]

Or... Should I just say "Haru"? Is that alright?

[Were they that level of friends... ?!]

[Oh! She's not expecting the offer. Isn't looking at someone's foot a bit pervy...?]

Ah! Sure! I am curious about them...since people seem to be giving Louis a headache about his hands and feet... [And, she decides looking at the hoof is fine and not pervy, but touching them would be. Luckily because she's small it probably doesn't take too much effort to see them in their full glory, noting how they kind of look like...really thick fingernails.

They remind her of a rhino's horn, actually.]

Can you feel what you walk on? Or is it like...hmm...tapping on a fingernail?

[She stands up straight, hands behind her back as she finishes looking at them. At the comment of her independence, she shrugs a bit, smiling.]

Yeah, it's actually a bit weird for herbivores to be independent because we do best in groups, but I wouldn't be where I am today if I didn't learn how to be self-sufficient. I was by myself at the gardening club.

[And for most of school. Even with Louis, she still felt by herself...but because he was a bit of a lonely guy. And Legosi...well, he always seemed to be off doing his own thing, especially at the end of her third year.]

But please, call me "Haru"! If it's okay that I just call you Konoha, that is...I prefer casual speech, not to mention it's a bit weird having someone a older than me and married calling me "Miss."

[Konoha, for her part, wears the very innocent smile of a woman who has never been told about the existence of fetishes as she holds her hoof up for perusal, occasionally curling the fetlock to demonstrate her somewhat limited (compared to a human wrist or ankle) range of motion.]

Fingernail is kind of right sounding... I can feel... the impact, I guess? Or the press of it? But not... it? The only part that can get hurt is the soft pointed bit in the middle, that I can kind of feel.

[Once the inspection ends she sets her hoof back down and heads into the house, her footfalls a soft clopping sound on the wooden floors as she heads into the main room and starts fluffing one of the cushion’s around the central sunken hearth. Thankfully, Juno had kindly explained some of the school things she didn’t understand, so she knows about clubs! It must have been difficult tending to every plant by yourself...]

Ehe, you can just call me “Konoha”, then! But I’m not that much older, I don’t think... You might could be married too, if you were in my world... I’m actually one of the last girls in my village to get married.

[Cushion fluffed, she happily gestures for Haru to take it while she fetches a pot of tea.]

Huh...weird. [But it's not a negative sort of "weird," just said because before she arrived here, she had never seen a hoof before. And this is her first time seeing one up-close. It's very much like a foot though, and she notices how the back legs are angled a bit oddly in her eyes.

There is a small part of her that tells her these body parts are dangerous, a sort of instinctive fear instilled in ever small herbivore to avoid the footfalls of larger mammals. And it dissipates shortly after the inspection as she follows Konoha to the hearth. Happily, she takes a seat on on of the fluffed cushions, kneeling happily with her hands resting on her knees as Konoha putters about the kitchen.]

You seem older, but I guess it's because you're married...and the way you talk is pretty old-fashioned too. [Not to mention the way she flusters at using technology...but again, Haru reminds herself it more of the time period she's from and not that she's an old lady.] I'm only nineteen...animals don't usually get married that young anymore. Some do... [she thinks to Louis, who has his entire life seemingly planned out for him by his father, affianced to a female red deer] But some of us don't want to rush into a big commitment like that.

[...and then, underbreath, a bit snide:]

Others do...

[Now, where did she put that nice tea Master Shen has gifted her during Firalia? It was far too nice for everyday consumption, so she only used it when guests arrived... Ah, there it was! The sounds of clinking ceramic, water beginning to boil, and soft hootbeats give a rough idea of Konoha’s puttering as she prepares the tea, her voice still cheerfully ringing out from the kitchen.]

I’m at least twenty, but not too far past it, so- That’s close enough!

[Not “am twenty”, but... “at least”. She never really knew how to phrase it properly, and sure, she supposed she could just decide her own age to make it easier on everyone, but... that felt a little disrespectful to where she’d come from, to just... start counting from one set of parents and allow the ones that birthed her to be forgotten.

But she laughs, anyway, because Haru isn’t the only one that has suggested she was old-fashioned. She’s just going to own it now.

Reappearing in the main room, she sets a tray of hot tea and a plate of mugwort dumplings stuffed with sweet red bean down between them before lumbering carefully to her knees and then shifting to her side, tucking her back legs in close to her belly but curling forelegs much the way a human might hug their knees to their chest, one hand resting on a knee as she grabs a cushion to stuff under her shoulder, propping her heavier lower body up just slightly before she gestures for Haru to help herself. Guests first!]

It is a commitment, that’s true... Is Mi- Is Legosi... the rushing type?

["At least twenty" sure is a weird way of putting it. But...huh, that's actually really close to her age. She'd have taken this woman to at least be in her mid-twenties if made to guess. At least twenty could still mean that, right?

It's something she considers as Konoha settles down across from her as she brings the tray of tea and dumplings.

Haru takes the tea as it's offered, thanking her for the drink and for the food. Her family has hosted enough guests to know proper hostess/guest decorum when she sees it. Taking a sip from her cup, she seems to be relaxing and enjoying herself a bit, but at the mention of Legosi being the rushing type, her ears twist back slightly and she sputters on her second sip.]

Uh, no! But also yes? [She fans her hand near her mouth, setting her cup down as she tries to recovering from nearly burning herself on the hot tea.] Sorry, it's more that...he rushes into things, but he's also someone who plans things out needlessly.

I-I just want us to be a teenage couple, you know? Not worry about things like marriage or having a family just yet.

[The benefits (misfortunes?) of an existence that in some ways blended human and equine... Jinba were considered mature and full grown earlier than humans would be- and so Konoha speaks with the confidence that “at least twenty” isn’t that young... But she knows now that a lot of worlds didn’t seem to consider people adults until at least eighteen, and didn’t even let people work or marry until even older...

It’s still weird to her, but she knows enough now not to call it that. It was just... different, and hard to imagine.]

Ehe, I guess I’m more like Legosi, then...

[She takes her own tea and blows on the surface a bit to cool it, cradling the hot cup in her hands as she laughs at her own little joke. (How king had she known Gonta before she asked him to marry her? Three months?)]

But I think I understand what Haru means, too... If you have time, and you’re doing those school things and don’t have to be thinking about working or family... I guess it would be nice to just spend lots of time together, even though I guess I don’t know what “normal” couples do...

[“Dates” apparently... ?]

Like... you go to festivals together? I guess that’s what most people do if they’re courting where I’m from.

[Look, there’s not a lot to do......]

You're not going out and getting yourself caught up in fights, are you?

[Because that's what Legosi does.

It's strange, though, because she never really has this sort of opportunity. To be able to sit down with a fellow female and talk about her relationship. It's not like she has many friends back home, just casual decent acquaintances and classmates in university she's able to sit with...though she's been cut out of one group ever since that accidental predation incident.

All she's ever had was herself. And surely, being alone with her thoughts like this does a girl no good.

She returns to her cup of tea, blowing on it this time to cool it down a bit more.]

We don't. Back home it's actually pretty difficult to get a hold of him a lot of the time. [Her ears flap downwards, and though her tone is light she actually does sound pretty serious and thoughtful by the context of her words.] He actually proposed to me back in highschool. But what kind of guy proposes to a girl, and then doesn't even spend time with her during couple's holidays?

[Fights... !? Sir, why are you fighting???]

A- Ah, maybe I'm not like Legosi, then... ?

[Because there isn't a violent bone in Konoha's entire body, nor is she the type to take on more than she can handle when it comes to dangerous situations as long as there wasn't someone's life at stake. Pride? What was that? She'd run the other way with her tail between her legs if she had to.

But maybe Haru just means Sanguis? ... Or not, maybe she means in her own world.]

Doesn't your world have the phone things?

[Even with those she can't get a hold of him? That makes Konoha's head cock to the side curiously, wondering if she's missing some sort of technological reason.]

If he proposed already... does that mean you're engaged? You should definitely take your fiancee to festivals...

[Couples holidays, whatever! ... So, maybe Konoha rarely had the chance to talk about relationships either, having spent most of her life the only jinba amongst humans, not to mention being too busy working and helping her aging parents to even consider courting until Gonta had actually come to her workplace. Since coming to Lunatia she's had a few experiences, though, and... They were kind of fun.

Or sad. Wait- Was this one going to be sad?]

[He fights because that's just what Males Do. Though actually there are reasons why he seems to find himself caught up in these kinds of situations...between the Shishigumi and the animal that murdered their classmate...

But it only drives home the fact that there isn't much she can do for him, and as much as she hates seeing him hurt and accumulate more and more scars, all she can ever do is sit and watch the aftermath.]

We do have phones, but he's such an old man about them! I actually don't even know if he has one anymore, because he's gotten rid of his phone once before.

[It's easier to talk about this, at least. Even if she feels petty griping about it to a happily married woman.

She sits back a bit more on her heels, and her ear flicks again to convey her annoyance.]

I don't consider myself engaged or his fiancée. Sometimes it doesn't even feel like we're seeing each other. [She sets her tea down, and grabs herself a dumpling. Maybe she just feels annoyed because she hungry, so she lets herself have a bit, chewing and looking straight at the sunken hearth.] Sorry, you probably don't want to hear all this.

[Another bite of the dumpling, then after, said a bit more calmly.]

...These dumplings are really good.

[Almost as though she's trying to change the subject from her bout of brooding.]

[Someone from one of the "future worlds" who didn't use the phones... ! Konoha actually releases a sound half confusion and half weird admiration? that someone could be like that in a world full of technology they actually knew how to use. She had an excuse, she wasn't from a time like that!

Though if she tried to think about it... If she was from a world like that, where you could just message people whenever you wanted and responding didn't mean actually moving anywhere or making much effort at all...

It would be pretty annoying not to get a response, huh?

This time Konoha actually just listens for a while, waiting until Haru takes one before she picks up a dumpling for herself, savoring the earthy, herbal taste of the mugwort softened by the sweet bean paste, chewing and intent on being a good hostess and not speaking with her mouth full... but she definitely took a big bite and mochi takes a while to chew, so-

She just holds a hand up over her mouth to hide the sight and talks anyway.]

You know... Gonta never says enough, too! When I confessed to him... He said he'd wanted to ask me to marry him the whole time, but he just decided it probably wouldn't work out and didn't say a single thing! Not one thing, the whole time we worked together!

[Is she... trying to let Haru feel better about complaining by complaining a little herself? Yes, yes she is, and it's probably a bit obvious in how there isn't really much frustration in her voice and her tail is... kind of "wagging" beneath her skirt, flicking back and forth in anticipation for Haru's reaction instead of acting on her own.

... So she's not good at it, but, it's the thought that counts.]

[The thought does count, even if Haru does notice the telltale sign of Konoha's tail flicking back and forth. She may not be familiar with horses, and knows each species of animal has their own meaning when it comes to body language (feline tails and canine tails vary very differently, for one), but she can tell an anticipatory gesture when she sees it.

But Haru never has a chance to vent about males. Louis knows how Legosi can be, but he's also a guy and an ex at that. Juno is still someone she's very much on the fence with in terms of where they dynamic is. And beyond that...she's never had many female friends move past acquaintanceship back home, or at least in a way where she'd feel comfortable talking about the male wolf in her life who drives her crazy.

So this...is kind of nice. It feels normal.]

So Gonta is the large, strong and silent type of guy? Isn't it usually the male who asks a female for their hand in marriage, too; especially in the olden days? [She snorts a bit.] I hate it when guys assume and decide things without even asking the girls in their life what they think. Legosi does that too...decides something without ever telling me about it.

[She pops the rest of the dumpling into her mouth. It's a large bite, and it takes her a bit to chew.]

Very strong. Very silent.

[Look, she's talking to a young lady who is also a rabbit about her boyfriend who is a man but also a wolf, and they're in a weird planet far from home... Nothing about this normal, but it's kind of normal and that is good enough for Konoha at this point.

She may not have any actual desire to vent about her husband's behavior, but in this sort of situation it seemed like it could let Haru feel more comfortable being honest about things, and if that were the case...]

It's really unusual, yeah... But- I had to, right? Because if I didn't say anything... He would have just gone back to the mountain and died alone there one day without ever saying a single thing or asking anyone to help him at all. So I had to, you know... take my skirt off and ask him to make me a woman of the mountains.

[She can maybe manage to try and dramatize things a bit. ... Actually, all of that was true, but. Look- It worked!]

I hope Legosi isn't trying to go die on a mountain... ?

[Haru said fights, but...]

[She's still chewing (politely!!) as Konoha talks, because she has a strange habit of sometimes taking bites that are much too large for her mouth to handle at times. It could be a nervous habit, a tick of the usual nervousness that naturally encompasses a small rabbit body, or just emblematic of the kind of girl she is.

Someone small who takes on things that seem much too large for her. And, honestly, she's not feeling nervous at all. In fact, it's incredibly peaceful talking to a fellow female, about anything. Be it their work or boyfriend-- husband, in Konoha's case-- troubles.

Or...petty annoyances.]

Jeeze...strong, silent, and stubborn. [and it's a good thing she does swallow her food before the mention of stripping as a means of confessing. Haru does snort though, hand to mouth as she coughs.]

Y-you what? That's a bit dramatic! [an ear flick, and she thinks back to the technically-second-time she met Legosi and...well, she can't talk about taking clothes off in front of a male unprompted.

But! Situations are different!] D-did he take you up on that offer?

[stuttering to keep in her laughter, as she hides her mirth a bit behind the rim of her cup.]

Honestly...I wouldn't be surprised if Legosi does wind up in a situation where he could possibly die on a mountain. He's not trying to die at all, but I think because he's a large carnivore he does things where he doesn't think about possibly dying. [a bit more seriously, unintentional, but it just feels...so nice to finally be able to talk to someone in this way?] I feel like large and strong males sometimes don't think much about their own safety, which bothers me because I can't really help.

[Look, after all the things Konoha has done in her life, she's the last person who can judge a woman for biting off more than she chew. Or put in her mouth.]

Yeah, all three...

[Yet even as she tries to complain that her husband is strong, silent, and stubborn... the tone of her voice sounds like she might as well be saying "strong, handsome, and protective". Something that would explain why she doesn't actually look truly angry.

She manages to blush a bit for her own antics, though. Dramatic... !]

W- Well, he married me, so...

[He did take her up on it. Technically they hadn't made it to the mountains yet, since they'd been pulled to Lunatia, but she's counting it. And she can't just let Haru thinks she strips for fun or anything-]

But- But the skirt thing, that was just because... I wanted to prove I could be like a mountain jinba! Gonta told me that they don't wear any clothes on their lower halves, like we do in the human villages, so... I don't know it just seemed like... it would prove something...

[Look, it worked, and that's what counted! What Haru says about Legosi though...]

I get what you mean... I think when men are big and strong and they're raised right... They get it in their heads that they have to be the protector. And that's good and all, I mean... if Gonta hadn't protected me I'd probably be dead, but... you worry, right?

[Her fingers curl around her tea cup, pushing down the reminder of that terrifying moment to focus on Haru instead.]

Is there really nothing you can do? Even if we can't fight or whatever... I think there are things we can do.

[By the "offer" Haru meant more on...the whole being "made into a woman of the mountains" idea which, to her, is a lot less matrimonial and much more carnal. But she hums in acknowledgement as she continues to drink her tea, the temperature a lot better now with time.]

So that's why he doesn't wear pants, huh? [Less an actual question, more just conversational observation.] At least you put thought into your proposal...

[Her voice trails off. And she's quiet as Konoha continues, gaze going from the jinba back down to the hearth. It's not normal for a prey animal to continuously hold another's gaze for all that long, unless the animal in front of them feels dangerous. It's another sign of her comfort here, one she doesn't think much on but simply just does.]

Mm...I do worry. Legosi is the reason why I'm still alive, but he always seems to find himself in really scary and dangerous situations. And I never find out about them until after they happen.

[It's frustrating. Doubly so when he acts so distant in the interim.]

I don't know what I can do when he gets that way, except just promise to stay strong and wait which still feels like I'm not doing much. [She's definitely grown as a person, come to understand what it means when another tries to see things on her level, but even still...] I'm just a rabbit. You may not be able to fight either, but you're still strong even compared to me.

Horses are really strong herbivores where I'm from, and you have sharp teeth too so you're a carnivore on top of all that. [Again, observational. Conversational. Though her inner thoughts are telling her to stop short, that maybe she's putting her foot in her mouth again.] My body isn't like that. I'm small for my species with a body made to die.

[Look, if they got married, they... got carnal, okay! She's just not sure if she can call herself a woman of the mountains properly until she actually lives in the mountains, even if she's, um. Had. A man of the mountains.]

Yeah... They don't think about clothes like humans do out there...

[So that's why! It's normal... It's okay... But it isn't okay for their men to run around being foolish like they sometimes do! (Apparently, like Legosi was doing way more than Gonta was doing.) Unconsciously, Konoha leans a bit more towards Haru, lowering the curve of her upper spine to bring her a bit more on the same height as she listens, brow furrowing in concern.]

Haru isn't just a rabbit... Haru is just a rabbit!

[Okay, that might make more emotional sense than actual sense, but that was Konoha's first reaction, shaking her head to deny the more negative things the other young woman was saying about herself.]

And you aren't made to die anymore than any other person!

[She understands that Haru is referring to the divided... herbivore and carnivore thing that her world seemed to go by, she's heard bits and pieces from her, from Louis, from Legosi, from Juno... But she may not fully realize how deep things go. Either way, she can't accept it. Especially not here, when they had a chance to see something different.]

You just have to find a way to get through to Legosi and make him understand that just because he wants to protect you... He can't do that if he's always away doing dangerous things!

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