"I'm used to having just you lot. That's the most amount of Allies I've ever had around at once," Mera said as she put her hand to her chin thinking about it.
"My excuse is pretty explainable- younger by a lot," Hotaru earned an annoyed look at that point, "And really bad lineage. Why don't you have a lot of allies at this point?"
"I don't like a lot of people," Mera said simply, "Most of them just annoy me."
"Even if they'd be good allies? You'd turn them down if they annoyed you?"
"Because I've been around so long, as you love to remind me, I've learned that for every person that annoys me that's a good ally, there's plenty of others who won't," Mera shook her head.
"Then why do you have so few?"
"Because they all died. Done asking me questions now?" Hotaru pursed her lips, catching the somewhat angry edge to her tone that she was trying to keep even, and decided not to even respond to the question. Mera seemed to be content with her not saying anything else, hoping no one else had anything to say between there and the next village. There had been too much being said and done in a day's period for her liking. Though not having Kaori's comments were weird. They were out of danger, so why hadn't the little runt reappeared? As much as he did annoyed her, she had to admit it worried her. Not that she would actually admit that out loud. 
(you can skip us to the next town if you want. I can also tone down on all my extra drama if you want XD I'm just trying to keep it interesting for ya lol)