AINO
Narrowing eyes rebelled against the notion that this person had any right to requestion anything from Aino. There was a long silence as she contemplated whether to answer at all - but it was not much of a secret, really. Any person on the street could have answered Hotaru and not strayed far from the mark.
"Family comes first," she replied, firm in this belief. "If what I do help keep my kin safe, clothed and fed, then I ask for no more." There was a brief pause, to let this sink home.
"But no, I do not enjoy the work. I am a soldier. That is what I am good at, and what I wish to do. But my work as a Shield would not feed all who need it. My brother would be overwhelmed on his own, and his children are not old enough to take up the workload yet."
Turning her gaze forward to see where they were headed, Aino rolled her shoulders to ease the tension away. It was not pleasant to speak of these things, and she wasn't quite sure why she did. Some petty desire for Hotaru to regret her actions, perhaps - though it irked her to admit it, the Jandars were poor, and not as well off as many other clans. They were no hunters, and scraped by at the edge of life here; filling the smallest of niches.
"Family comes first," she replied, firm in this belief. "If what I do help keep my kin safe, clothed and fed, then I ask for no more." There was a brief pause, to let this sink home.
"But no, I do not enjoy the work. I am a soldier. That is what I am good at, and what I wish to do. But my work as a Shield would not feed all who need it. My brother would be overwhelmed on his own, and his children are not old enough to take up the workload yet."
Turning her gaze forward to see where they were headed, Aino rolled her shoulders to ease the tension away. It was not pleasant to speak of these things, and she wasn't quite sure why she did. Some petty desire for Hotaru to regret her actions, perhaps - though it irked her to admit it, the Jandars were poor, and not as well off as many other clans. They were no hunters, and scraped by at the edge of life here; filling the smallest of niches.
For the good times that we share,
and the bad times that we'll have
and the bad times that we'll have
