Hayate pauses for a long moment.

"...her name was Marion. It was...she had been born with some kind of...wasting sickness. Near the end, as far as I've been able to tell...she just stopped wanting to live."

Hayate spends a few seconds breathing slowly and steadily before continuing.

"There was a lot of strange magic wrapped up in the entire thing, and I'm the only one who knows she's dead. I used to bring flowers to her grave."