don't say it

He was larger than she was, but then again, who wasn't? Her words prompted him to approach and he addressed her, introducing himself. My, the boy surely was filled with manners, wasn't he? "Aslatiel Fatalis," she gave her own name in return, only adding her last name because he'd given his own. Hikaru had bowed his head at her which was unlike anything that the other koi bastards had done. None of them had been as well mannered either. So he was different. That was good.

"Did you come here to train, Hikaru? I'll have to replace this training dummy before I leave the place to you." She'd shredded it, but it would simply take some more grass, a new fur and some ropes to rectify the issue. She could do it fairly quickly, but she'd do a better job of it if she worked leisurely.