Bequest
She was still the Lady of the West even though her mate's death had recently left her son the new Lord, and she would remain so until he took a mate. Her mate had left her three precious gifts; her son, the Meidouseki and the bastard hanyou he had sired on the pretty human mistress who had been a princess of her own people.
The only sin that he had ever committed against her had left this runt of a pup who would be hated and despised and alone in a relatively short period of time, leaving him an outcast. What was the Lady supposed to do; swoop down and hold the creature to her own breast and care for him when the mother passed away? She thought not; she had hardly nurtured her own son, leaving him to the care of hired nurses, as all the nobility did.
Truthfully she wanted to forget the existence of her husband's shame but knew that he would have been saddened by her neglect of the boy; so she compromised and watched from a distance. A touch of jealousy blossomed as she observed the carefree way the mother cared for her child and the delightful bond that grew between them, something the Lady had been denied with her own.
She sneered however at the humble dwelling but there was nothing yet to concern her and so she turned away and left them to their fate and forgot how fleeting human life was.
Inuyasha Themes, lj. theme 7, Sin. 250 words max
