A few days after publishing I noticed that I hadn't specified the update schedule for this work. Every Saturday until finished you will find an update. If the fates are good nothing will get in the way and I might turn this into a series where Kagome gets to interact with people that aren't precisely in their world/time/dimension. I am also cross-posting this in AO3 where you can find me under the same username, and there is a chance that I might also post this in Spanish, as a friend of mine has expressed the wish to read this and it would be useless to make the translation for the use of only a person.
I hope you enjoy this chapter!
Songs of the Past
Second Verse - Contact
She felt the gaze on her from afar with the senses that had never really dulled, even after all those years and a lifetime of not actually using them.
The person looking at her pointedly was a young woman, a petite Asian girl with hair as back as raven feathers and eyes as blue as the sky - she saw herself in for a moment, archer stance included and so ingrained that she knew from just that the girl had seen battle. There was an acquired power and self-respect in the way she stood, that of one who had endured difficulties and come out on top. And if she looked beyond the surface of her eyes, she could see the hardened gaze of those who had seen unnamable horrors.
But that didn't truly face her, after all she had lived long and seen more than most women. No, what was truly terrifying for her was to see the same haunted look she saw every day since she was twenty-one and her world had turned to ashes in the wind - the look of someone adrift in a raging storm because of a bad decision: despair, sorrow, and perhaps worst of all a deep an unshakable sense of regret brought by guilt. Something that even though she recognized and acknowledge, she couldn't find it in herself to shake it off.
Self-inflicted pain due to a wrong choice, or the outright lack of it that turned life into a thing to be endured.
Taking a desition she stepped forward towards the girl and smiled down at her.
"Hello, my dear. My name is Susan, would you like to share a chat over a nice cup of tea?"