[If he were to explain it to her, would she understand, he wonders?]
[The sense of purpose he gets when he finds an ayakashi grown strong enough to make real trouble... it's the complete opposite of feeling "out of it". The razor-sharp focus, the odd rush of the hunt, the feeling like he's somehow exactly where he needs to be...]
[Everything else can feel annoyingly petty in comparison, sometimes. Like he's a tiger being kept as a housecat, and people somehow expect him to be satisfied with hunting little tiny mice.]
Don't worry on my behalf, my lady. I had only wondered...
...Why wait... for prayers?
[The prey is already out there, whether or not someone asks them to go after it.]
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[If he were to explain it to her, would she understand, he wonders?]
[The sense of purpose he gets when he finds an ayakashi grown strong enough to make real trouble... it's the complete opposite of feeling "out of it". The razor-sharp focus, the odd rush of the hunt, the feeling like he's somehow exactly where he needs to be...]
[Everything else can feel annoyingly petty in comparison, sometimes. Like he's a tiger being kept as a housecat, and people somehow expect him to be satisfied with hunting little tiny mice.]
Don't worry on my behalf, my lady. I had only wondered...
...Why wait... for prayers?
[The prey is already out there, whether or not someone asks them to go after it.]