Note: Another chapter, after this one we continue on to feudal era. Hope you have fun.

Finishing preparations

With twelve Kagome didn't just start university, she also took her preparations to a new level.

Kagome was always preparing to be finished even earlier than her own schedule. She couldn't know when the jewel would wake up again but she couldn't let it in on her plans, so she always tried to have an emergency plan ahead of time.

For example she had already gained a perfect backpack in black, light, robust and fireproof. It contained a dark wood green hooded cloak also water and fire proof similar to Inuyasha's fire rat robe just not made with youki but with science and knowledge. She also had already backed seeds for healing plants (those which wouldn't be around for some years because they were brought from overseas), good climbing ropes, first aid kid and the other basics.

She secretly got an armor fitted for herself.

A unique story, also one that showed how far Kagome had come from that upright, naïve girl she had once been…

The armor was her greatest achievement so far. She wouldn't tell anyone how she did it but her connections to such a famous family as Akemi's and all their acquaintances didn't hurt her endeavors.

It was light and offered protection from normal weapons as well as energy blasts. It was made from a new alloy discovered due research on star travel. It could withstand the extremes of temperatures in space and was really flexible despite it being able to withstand almost all weapons. It would be perfect for her as she would be able to channel her powers through it, as she had figured out she could do with all metal not only arrow tips.

She also had asked for a surface structure that would change color based on the surrounding area. What she got was a material that didn't reflect light, was held in dark grey and could change the shade of the color from very light to black depending on the surrounding temperature.

How she got the money?

She cheated of course.

Being back in time gave her some advantages; one of them was remembering the right code for the latest lottery draw. She didn't feel the least bit bad about doing it. The temple had need for reparations and her grandfather would be able to increase the number of tourists coming to visit them. So everything she didn't need for herself went into the betterment of her family's situation.

Yuuki's lesson had been that she would always face superior opponents and if she wanted a chance then she had to play dirty.

So she did.

Going underground to get her hands on such a valuable treasure was just a logical step to her. She was going to the past, facing off the worst kind of monsters and she deserved to go there well protected.

The dealer had been puzzled by her request but she had paid him for his silence.

"You know, it's not illegal to possess those substances one by one but you are tip toeing close on the border there. It wouldn't have been so suspicious if you were only asking for one of them. Separately they are quite legal but by combining those people could get the wrong idea about you. It could look like you are starting something bad. So it's better you don't get caught by authorities with it."

Kagome only nodded. The man couldn't know that where she wanted to go to, such things wouldn't matter. She turned to leave but heard the man still mumble.

"But why would you want it acid proof?"

She smiled and simply shook her shoulders not feeling inclined to sate this stranger's curiosity.

Gaining her new armor meant that she had to adapt her training.

While the armor was still a bit large for her (she had fitted it for her future size, not that she would still become that much larger but anyway), she could already use it. Therefore she needed to train her muscles to be able to smoothly move with the additional weight. So she started to wear the armor during her free running sessions.

In the beginning it was really hard for her to even move in full body armor but as she learned to channel her powers through it she started to manage easier. She learned how to increase her speed for short amount of times, or how her powers could help her to jump higher and wider.

The downside was that it left her exhausted.

Kagome began to think of her powers like a muscle she needed to train. It of course helped her that she was training them for years now but she had never tried to expand her aura around the outer side of her body for a longer amount of time.

After some training sessions she felt as exhausted as she had been in the beginning when she had started to travel with Inuyasha. Yet she knew it couldn't be helped. It left her more groggy and grumpy but as she had to train her acting skills anyway she just pretended that everything was fine. Except for Yuuki who noted the change immediately, everyone else only thought she had become more silent. No one was yelled at and Kagome never lost composure.

She was quite proud of how she was able to keep her temper in this new life. It had caused her more trouble than worth in her last adventure and thus she had engaged herself into some traditional plays. Joining the acting class and focusing on traditional dances hadn't been out of character anyway. Officially she was training to become the new leader of the temple therefore it could be considered a necessity.

Kagome smiled and kept silent. She had learned to allow the people to think what they wanted to think. She tried to not really lie but she had learned that leaving gaps within information or to tell only tidbits of what she knew at times was as effective sometimes even more than outright lies would have been. People had an enormous ability to fill gaps with their own assumptions and once those settled in someone's brain they stuck much better than lies would have…

I won't lie but I'm not responsible for others assumptions!

She had gotten the idea from politics of course and had started to use the strategy when people asked her why she trained with such strive. Kagome had told them that she had to watch her family suffer with the loss of her father. She then told them that in the future she wouldn't allow anyone else she cared about to be hurt.

Of course both statements were completely honest, that people pulled them into direct connection, missing out on the entire Inuyasha final battle story, was something they did not something she told them…

As she also wasn't responsible for what people made up in their minds, Kagome couldn't be bothered to correct them. Their assumptions were theirs after all.

So she started to keep her aura cloaked but always on the surface channeling it through her armor. Next to improving her movement, her balance, speed and strength it also would make her punches sting terrible if a Youkai was to receive them. Kagome smirked she would be no more damsel in distress.

This afternoon she was training in the dojo with her throwing knives as she still had to wait for her new bow. She had arranged for a bow to be crafted from the same material as her armor. It would be strange to wield a bow made of metal but it was lighter than wood and could endure much more damage. She also wanted the bow as additional close range weapon therefore she wanted to be able to channel her reiki through it as well.

She felt giddy at the prospect of receiving said bow soon and couldn't wait to start training with such a valuable weapon…

#

Riding lessons had been one of those things on her to do list for a long time but as horses and lessons were hard to come by in the city, she had waited until she joined university.

There it was offered for students on the campus. Therefore she practiced every Wednesday afternoon with different steeds. She was hard on herself, as she wasn't only trying to learn riding. She would need to be able to do sprints, jumps and some emergency maneuvers with horses or other creatures.

For those reasons she chose different riding stiles including parkour and jumping across different obstacles. She needed to learn how to guide animals even though they would be heading into battle. A Youkai would frighten every horse; therefore she needed the ability to calm them, to build enough trust with them to make them follow her even into danger.

Not that she didn't get confused head shakes for her study habits at university as well. It had already started at high school but continued now on with her new peers. She was of course the youngest and thus soon everyone knew who she was simply as they could make her out even in big groups.

Some days she had the feeling that they made it a sport to keep track on what she did. People watched her for possible future uses, to companies, family ties and other social standing. Her achievements both academically as well as in the material arts had gained her some celebrity status. With all the pros and cons to such an arrangement.

She didn't face harassment due to her age but she was also treated like a zoo animal for everyone to comment on.

Kagome took it the sportive way and just thought on the benefit such encounters had for her meditation skills. How would she withstand the taunting of her enemies during battle if she couldn't deal with humans?

Her colleges even joked about how something was only of interest to her if it was at least two centuries out of habit. They couldn't know how right they were of course.

Kagome smiled kept polite and did what she wanted too anyway.

Of course she understood them; in their eyes she could have easily achieved more modern skills. She probably could have achieved to become a pilot and learn how to fly, yet she invested time to learn riding. With chemistry she could become a researcher and with her skill find formulas to aid people yet she invested all her time into recreating already known and used knowledge. She had never shown interest in taking a driver license, never connected to people from the higher society even if she would have been easily able too. So of course people asked themselves why she would waste her gifted mind on such outdated tasks.

"Kagome why are you wasting your time with these outdated things? You are really becoming a collector of the uttermost useless skills!"

The teenager sighed. She really respected her new chemistry teacher. Mrs. Watanabe Mizore was unique in her insight on how substances melted and could be formed or how one could harness and collect needed abilities which would create powerful antidotes. Kagome loved to study under her tutelage. It speeded up her study immense.

The only problem was that she shared the opinion of most others on the campus, that Kagome foolishly wasted her talent on useless endeavors.

She had to start a new research project and of course she had chosen something that would be profitable during her journey. She had wanted to recreate potent healing supplies from plants and recourses which would have been available during feudal era. She of course couldn't tell that she would try to write down the knowledge for Lady Kaede to use but she also was fed up with people constantly questioning her decisions.

It was her life!

What did anyone care if she was going to waste it?

They didn't know that she was probably heading to a suicide mission anyway…

"Now we have come to the end of your research, strictly spoken. There is no path you could improve the draughts further without adding substances, which aren't known in Japan during the feudal era."

Kagome nodded at her but also inquired what kind of substances she would be able to use if she had let's say unlimited access to other recourses.

Mrs. Watanabe's left eyebrow started to twitch. She had really hoped that as soon as both of them would reach the dead end of Kagome's research project the younger one would finally see some sense but obviously she wasn't yet done with speculating. The older researcher sighed and started to think about the plants discovered at that time but in different countries.

There of course would be the knowledge brought to them from India. The two of them continued their somewhat heated discussion and Kagome all the more made notes in her mind on what else on seeds she had to pack for her trip.

All in all she tried to spend more time with the history faculty staff, those people while all theory and nearly no praxis, still appreciated her for her unwavering efforts to know everything about the feudal area.

She even had in-depth discussions with Tadashi as his expertise lay in political happenings and Kagome profited from his insights even if all the changes, assassinations, revolutions and general turmoil made her head spin more than once. Due to her lack in strategic thinking which only slowly surfaced under the nurturing care of Yuuki, she needed a long time to make sense of the data. It was a complicated and bloody time in history. Every book she read on the feudal era did portray the problems, difficulties and poor life conditions of the people there.

If she hadn't seen the lush place, gorgeous nature, caring people and wondrous miracles with her own eyes nothing could have make her want to head there for real. Yet Kagome of course knew what wasn't written in those books. The amazing people she had met there, the courage and the care she had received and an air breathable… those things couldn't be found in a book.

Her research project for history was a recreation of an accurate map of Edo, it wasn't easy as the old maps were very contradicting and with the landscape changing due to the ever growing Tokyo it was hard work. Kagome spend many hours in different museums, old temples, administration buildings which kept old registration scrolls and birth certificates, she even studied old financial scrolls on taxes and similar topics.

Rivers had been rearranged, swamps dried and floodplains had gone lost. Small hills had been paved therefore as she was referencing to modern satellite maps, she had her work cut out for herself. To craft a working travel map needed precision, determination and stubborn endurance. Luckily Kagome possessed those traits due to her years of preparing herself.

It took weeks of research but she was finally able to get a feeling were Kaede's village had been in reference to the sacred tree. She also now knew where the demon slayer village should be, where she would find Totosai, the cave of the demon Kaguya, the western lands of Sesshomaru and the city occupied from the shadow snake clan. Not only places were referenced on her map though, she also marked where important meetings had happened, like meeting Shippo, Sango, Miroku, Ryuukotsusei and Naraku's different hiding places.

In the end she was really proud at herself for accomplishing such a task, even if the faculty wouldn't get the same version of the map as she had crafted for her own use but even the "light" version provided new insights and accuracy to their knowledge and would be received as wonderful addition.

#

Akemi had become eighteen a month ago and was already busy with her medical education. She would really become a gifted healer as she studied very hard. Kagome had visited her quite often and helped her preparing for tests. Both girls had become so used to helping each other with furthering their studies that none of them would have been able to think of an alternative to doing it. It had become a fix part of their friendship.

Kagome would ask Akemi questions and let her explain the material to her. Of course there were many things which went above Kagome's head but Akemi had the talent to explain things in easy words and never got lost in the medical vocabulary. It was a gift because she would be able to explain her clients what exactly was going on without shying them away with words they wouldn't be able to understand. That was one of the reasons why she loved studying with Kagome so much, she would immediately know when the smaller girl got lost and she would rephrase her answers.

It also ensured that Akemi knew everything by heart because she wouldn't stop until Kagome understood it and thus she wouldn't have been able to explain it if she hadn't completely understood it herself. Kagome profited from the arrangement as well. She needed good healing abilities for her journey but had no time to start studying medicine. Additionally all the modern knowledge, the machines, the names, the pharmacy would be useless to her. What she needed was a profound understanding of the workings of the human body and how to heal injuries and poisons. Therefore she listened to Akemi and absorbed the knowledge she needed.

Kagome was also allowed to visit Akemi during her practical sessions in the hospital. Not that she had any important tasks in the beginning but slowly and steadily the elder teenager almost adult was growing into her healer profession. As tradition demanded from the temple school she even taught the others during their meetings how to set bones and heal minor wounds. Kagome excelled in those disciplines as she had really fine senses and could therefore almost perfectly feel what she was doing.

The only thing Kagome still struggled with was the rune-crafting. It was the only subject she had not managed to teach to others yet. She of course would have been able to memorize the faulty spells but that wasn't her goal. She needed working spells, blessings and protections.

After months of frustration she visited Shina again. The old Miko had retired a few years ago leaving the education to the next generation but she still had a sharp mind and an open ear for her former protégés.

Shina always had a gift for using prayer beads and she didn't mind to teach Kagome how to use them. Those were more instinctual than ofudas, combining her reiki with the beads and willing them to work in a certain way.

Kagome loved the technique and took to it like duck to water. She absorbed the knowledge of Shina and studied under her attentive for some days. The intuitive flowing of her Reiki allowed her a deeper understanding of her power and brought back some security. It would also be damn useful in battle and Kagome would start to include those prayer beads into her training sessions.

The old lady couldn't help her with the rune setting though. Both were puzzled how the knowledge had gone lost over the years. Shina believed that due to the lack of Youkai around, there had been no way of knowing if they would work or not. Maybe no one noticed how mistakes appeared within the rune circles.

Kagome wasn't satisfied with that explanation of course. She also regretted that she hadn't paid better attention on what Lady Kaede was actually doing, when she weaved those rune circles. Or to be precise she could have asked Miroku a million times how to craft those prayers.

She had myriads of possibilities to learn about ofudas.

Did she do it?

No of course not, because that would have been something useful and she had always been so occupied with her emotional turmoil that she never thought of doing something useful!

#

Coming close to her fourteenth birthday Kagome had finally a breakthrough. It was one of those nights plagued with nightmares of her failing and the jewel's triumph that she finally had an insight. As the manic laughter of Magatsuhi pulled her from sleep, she woke screaming but with an idea… What if the rune circles weren't faulty but coded?

It took her another few weeks but with going through all the reference scrolls in her grandfather's archive she finally found some leads. Old historical texts spoke of internal struggles with the priests. There seemed to have been traitors once in their own rows. In order to protect their knowledge from outsiders, the founders of the temple had therefore coded their notes and only taught the older students reaching their mastery how to truly read them.

Akemi came over to help her. She hadn't much time left next to her studies but making some of the healing spells work would benefit her as much as it would Kagome. There were spells that could stabilize a person's condition or increase the natural healing abilities of people. Of course one could only use those in addition to actual treatment but it would make the process smoother and easier for the injured person.

So both gathered in the old library of Kagome's home and looked through the books from the temple school as well as from the Higurashi temple. As Akemi had spent so much effort already during her studies to try and apply different concepts of math and science to the runes and spells, she was able to dig through all of them at a faster speed. Kagome on the other hand still struggled at gaining a general overview.

Akemi decided to explain different categories like blessings, protections and spells to her friend. It did help to clear up differences and flows of energy. Very slowly but at a constant pace they were able to bring some sense into the chaos. Actually, it was Akemi's deep understanding for the laws their reiki seemed to follow and Kagome's instinct for needing to find a pattern which was used to code the spells that finally brought their breakthrough.

It was still a tiring process and much of the knowledge and the spells the priests have once known seemed to have gone lost.

Kagome worked tirelessly on mastering the runes though.

The blessing for her family's temple, the temple school building and the close by hospital kind of were Kagome's field tests. She wanted to protect those places and the people there when she was gone. It was ambitious but then Kagome reeked of ambition nowadays.

The day she was able to raise the purifying shields around the three areas were the day when Kagome let all of her self-doubts behind. The blessings worked amazingly well. At least they worked far better than she had dared to hope.

She had focused on creating a field of comfort, peace, prosperity and health. The teenager didn't add anything to repel Youkai instead she concentrated on creating an environment were no evil could enter; it wasn't bound to species, instead she kept it general. It allowed Youkai with good intentions to enter but would keep shabby people out even humans or ghosts.

She hoped that while some may feel the increase of power in Tokyo wouldn't feel threatened by her doings. If there still were some Youkai around then she wouldn't want to start a war.

Hopefully people would come here to find healing and happiness, nothing more and nothing less.

#

Training against the shadow snake clan was one of her bigger building sites at the moment and she hadn't yet figured out what to do. It was one of those missions that made her inwardly cringe and doubt her decision to be able to do things on her own. Yet she couldn't give up, she couldn't turn back and she really had to be successful with it…

Last time they had visited the small city close to the borders of Sesshomaru's lands because the Youkais of said clan had tried to smuggle highly deadly artifacts throughout the lands. Including some that had become even more dangerous due to inserted jewel shards…

Unbeknown to Inuyasha and the group they had also held the power within the city and the surrounding area much like a Youkai mafia. Completely set up with spies, assassins, political back up from the locals and a scheming rivalling Naraku's skills.

They had of course naively confronted them and nearly paid with their life.

Being Sesshomaru's younger brother had made Inuyasha main target because as Kagome later found out, the clan was highly sought after by the lord of the west and they had wanted to use Inuyasha to blackmail Sesshomaru. It wouldn't have worked but those creatures didn't know that or didn't care.

Those shadow snakes were incredibly fast and lacked substance like smoke except for the one moment when they are about to strike at a target. In order to deal wounds they needed to gain substance during their strikes. So Inuyasha had to wait for them to leap at him to even have a chance of landing a blast with Tetsusaiga.

It had been such a close call and only due to Inuyasha's superior strength and speed they had managed it at all.

Kagome was still at a loss on how she would confront those creatures on her own.

She lacked the necessary speed and while the poison rendered Inuyasha defenseless for five days it would immediately kill Kagome. Within minutes she would be dead. There wasn't an antidote and she couldn't create one without a sample of the poison. She knew that if the poison would enter her system she would immediately lose her ability to breathe, then she would lose her sight and after two minutes she would fall unconscious. After that it would only take another two minutes for her heart to stop working.

She had spent days to reconstruct the fighting scene and put it into a PC Program. She had watched Inuyasha fight and had nearly died due worry for her friend. The scene had been branded into her memory.

They had ignored her completely only focusing on Inuyasha and Kagome had been forced to watch him getting injured time after time. As her powers had been blocked at that time, she hadn't even been able to help him and their friends had been unconscious due to a poisoned gas. They had been led into a trap from the locals. It had been a poor attempt to appease the shadow snakes.

Kagome still remembered the details of that day…

She knew beforehand from where and how the twenty creatures would attack. She could clearly picture the corridor Inuyasha ran along and killed three of the snakes. They were leading him into the hall where he had to face the rest of them including their queen. She knew how to turn, where to block and she knew how to force the scene to replay in the exact same way but even with all her training she wouldn't be fast enough.

Yet there was no choice.

Therefore she trained. All the while she knew how hopeless the entire endeavor would be.

Her animation of how the scene would unfold was downloaded on a new training program which could produce illusions of the attackers. She could enter the training room and would be able to relive the setting. It was supposed to simultaneously translate the memorized scene while also adapting to the participants reaction.

It was an awesome creation. Normally it was supposed to be used to train street scenarios at the police academy. There they used it to prepare for emergency scenarios and were able to school their reactions due to the real time setting.

She wouldn't know how Yuuki got permission for her to train there.

"If you don't ask me, then I won't have to lie."

That was all he had said to her. Kagome had looked at him wide eyed but there was a determination in his face that showed her that nothing she would try could encourage him to tell her the truth.

She swallowed with all the possibilities running wild in her head.

Had Yuuki been in danger?

Had he needed to lie, steal or sell his soul for that opportunity?

A feeling of being deeply indebted to him snuck upon her. As she told him that, he only shook his head.

"What you will do is supposed to help the people of japan. In truth we all are indebted to you even if most people will never know that."

She guessed it did help that he had started to train the new classes at the academy but anyway she wouldn't get any answers out of him. What she did get from him was his disbelieving as he stayed to watch her training.

Yuuki had wanted to see the scene which Kagome had been restless about. He had noticed her struggles during their last training sessions. It had distracted her quite a bit in the last month, causing her development coming to a halt. It had been one of the reasons why he had decided to pull some strings to allow her to train at the academy.

As he now saw the scenario he couldn't help his disbelief to show.

What the hell is she thinking?

"You are crazy; no human can keep up with this scenario. You are unable to move that fast!"

Kagome ignored him, her determination didn't waver and she told him that. It didn't help her point though that the animation would automatically stop when she failed and died in the process. It also didn't help that she couldn't even manage to see the first attacker before the system would shut down.

It absolutely didn't help that even twenty times of repeating didn't show any progress at all.

Yuuki tried to argue with her.

Kagome ignored him completely; she focused only on her task.

Stubbornness was ingrained into her very being and so she came back time after time and revisited the scenario again and again. One week, two weeks and more time passed by without any change but Kagome still continued.

"You are dead again."

Yuuki's voice wasn't mocking anymore, it sounded far more like resignation.

Kagome trained the same damn scene for two months now and she couldn't really say that she had any real success. She had managed to kill the first opponent by now but wouldn't even manage to enter the hall before dying from the poison. So even if she would be able to slay three of her enemies one of them always managed to somehow scratch her leading to the system shutdown after two minutes when she would be unconscious and then dead again.

She couldn't even tell why she put herself through this.

There was no necessity to confront them, they weren't involved with Naraku and if she managed to keep the jewel from splitting then there would have been no reason for them to come to the surface. She could easily ignore them and maybe lord Sesshomaru would deal with them later…

Kagome really tried to find a way around confronting them. Maybe she could find a substitution for her plan?

Somehow, please, there had to be another way?

Truth was though that those creatures possessed a unique artefact which was crucial for her plan. She had no lead to gain it anywhere else. No sources showed even a hint of something like that existing at all, not that she was confused by the lack of knowledge. The more she had researched the feudal era the more glaring had the lack of true knowledge about anything Youkai related become.

For all modern day archeology was able to discover there never had been something like a Youkai at all. Kagome had become really confused because even if they were all gone, there had been buildings, shiros, bones… Why had there been no traces left?

Kagome focused back onto the scene and started again. The corridor, she killed the first snake!

"You are dead, again."

It was hopeless and she knew that Yuuki waited for her to realize this. Yet she had no alternative.

So she gritted her teeth together and restarted the scene.

"You are dead."

She couldn't remember how often Yuuki had told her that alone at this day but it didn't matter she had to continue.

"You are dead."

A sigh came from her. She continued.

"Dead again, not that I'm surprised."

Sigh

Kagome restarted again.

"…and dead."

She kept silent. The scene restarted.

"You are dead."

Yuuki had promised he would help his little warrior Miko but sometimes he couldn't understand what she was aiming at.

The training setting wasn't the craziest thing she attempted. He wouldn't forget how he found her one day by a small lake close to Mount Fuji in full armor declaring that she would learn how to swim with the dreaded thing on.

He had been shocked at the sheer absurdity of that claim alone.

"Do I have to spell out why exactly that is totally insane?"

Kagome had only shook her head and explained.

"Look Yuuki, if I'm able to increase my speed for some time then I should be able to swim with my armor if I'm able to channel my powers through it long enough."

"Is there a way I could stop you from attempting this?"

"No."

"Fine but I will not jump in behind you, dragging you out when you realize you have no strength left."

"Don't worry I will be able to do this. I need this skill, being able to cross rivers or other obstacles without removing my armor will be essential."

"You better come out of there alive!"

Then she jumped in. True to her words she was able to keep her head above the surface…

That day he learned that this warrior could achieve the impossible.

Kagome continued to train swimming afterwards for weeks. She felt how it drained her far more to keep swimming and did wonders for her ability to sense and balance the amount of reiki she had to use to channel through her armor. If she used too much reiki she would tire before reaching her goal, if she used less than needed she would drown. It trained her "spiritual muscle" and her precision in using her powers.

It also helped to balance out her frustration with not having any success with the shadow snakes…

She loved swimming – it relaxed the mind and she slept better afterwards with less nightmares.

Yuuki shook his head, not for the first time.

He had always marveled Kagome's strength and her will to succeed.

She of course had told him some of her story but he guessed that much of what truly had happened was still locked inside her mind. Her need, the sheer amount of determination was something he had never seen before. It spoke of guilt and losing much more than anyone should.

He often asked himself if he would have had the capability of doing what Kagome did hoping he could protect the ones he loved. Then he thought of Akemi and their parents. If it would have been them, he would have done it as well.

Yuuki kept watch over Kagome, trying to protect her from herself some times. Making sure she wouldn't harm herself especially with her lack of success with the crazy training setting.

She was a kind soul with a bright shining aura and her caring for her friends was easily to be seen. He understood why Akemi had chosen her as her best friend even if the girl had seemed so much younger than his sister.

Kagome smiled and she had the gift to smile in a way that inspired others to do the same. Even though she faced hard times and pushed herself to train and become better every year she never burdened anyone else with her sorrows. Wherever she came to, she made people smile or at least happier. It was a unique gift and he hoped that whatever would happen soon, she would hopefully never lose her light.