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For the remainder of the day Kin barely talked and seemed very sulky. Saiomi eventually asked what had happened, even with what had gone on, Kin's reaction to Lakari still seemed strange.
I tried cheering Kin up by telling her of stupid things me and Saiomi had done before, but it didn't work. Finally I did the only thing I could think of, I asked her what was wrong.
"Why did you get so grou- uh, upset when you saw Lakari?" I could feel Lin's death stare on my back, she had said to wait it out and eventually Kin would come around and tell us what was wrong.
"Because Lakari used to be my best friend and I thought she was dead for a long time. I'm glad she's alive but now she's working with our enemy and we'll have to fight her. When we were younger she said she would rather die then work for someone who was evil."
I pondered over what Kin had said. "Maybe Lakari isn't working for someone bad."
Kin snapped at me, "I know you think everyone is good but you're wrong, Souzen is evil."
I shook my head, "Nope, you're wrong this time. Souzen isn't the evil one. Ukame is. Maybe Lakari knows Souzen and knows that Souzen wouldn't do those evil things on her own. Maybe she's trying to help Souzen get back to what she was like before Ukame tricked her."
Kin's face lit up, "I hope you're right! I'm sorry everyone for being grouchy." With that said she ran off into her room to do who knows what.
"Geez I think you just do the opposite of what I say." Lin scolded me like I was a little kid. "Well it worked this time so good job."
I smiled. Then I remembered I had wanted to ask Kin if there was a way to see if I had more powers. I walked down the hallway to her room and opened the door. She was sitting at her desk looking intently at a piece of paper.
"What are you doing?"
Kin jumped and quickly covered up the papers. "Geez you scared me, was there somethig you needed?"
I noticed that she hadn't answered my question but I didn't bother to ask again. "Is there a way to see if I have any more powers?"
Kin tapped her chin as she thought. "As a matter of fact there is. Haku showed me once before. Hold on a second." Kin started opening a bunch of books on her desk and began paging through them.
Whenever Kin mentioned Kohaku's name I got a little pain in my heart. I knew he wasn't able to see me now because he had been captured, but what about all the time before he was captured? He never came to see me then either.
Kin now had several books opened to different pages. "Here we go. These are the different herbs we'll need, you should be able to find them in the forest around here."
She got out a stack of paper and redrew each picture and rewrote the description so I wouldn't have to carry a bunch of heavy books. She handed me the papers. "You should go get them now so we can do the ceremony tomorrow."
"Okay." I looked at the drawings and looked at some of the books that were still open. Kin had drew each picture exactly as it was in the book, she would've made a great artist.
Overall I only had to get six herbs. I walked out of Kin's room and back into the kitchen where everyone else was sitting at the table.
"Hey Chihiro, if you're getting herbs do you think if you find any of these you could get a bunch for me? Lin is going to show me how to make more medicines and stuff." Saiomi held up up a few different kinds of plants.
"Sure." I took the plants she held up so I knew what to get.
Kamaji came over and gave me a big bag that had a bunch of different compartments that I could use to seperate the plants so they wouldn't get mixed up.
"Thanks." Holding the drawings and the bag I went down the tunnel and up to the surface.
Today had been a really busy day and it seemed like it should've ended a long time ago, but it was just starting to get dark. The sun was almost done setting so I hurried towards the trees, if I wasted time soon it would be hard to see what I was doing in the dark.
I easily found the herbs Saiomi had asked me to get, however the ones Kin had instructed me to get were another story. I had spent 30 minutes already looking around for the herbs and wandering aimlessy in the dark. At least the moon was out so I could see somewhat.
Finally I found one of the six herbs I was suposed to get. If it took me that long to find one of them I probably be up half the night. Right now I defenitely didn't want to be up half the night, I was exhausted.
I jumped as something fuzzy brushed against my ankle. I looked down to see Jelly. "Geez how long have you been with me?"
I picked him up and he jumped from my hand to my shoulder. "I left when you did. I found two more of the herbs you're looking for." He jumped back down and I followed him.
Wow, I can barely find them myself and I'm outsmarted by a fuzzy piece of coal.
After picking the herbs and putting them in the bag I thought about where to look next.
I heard and owl hoot above me and looked up to see if I could see it. That's when I got a bunch of dripping wet plants on my face. I saw the owl who had dropped them on my face. I wiped the water off of me then looked at the plants, it was one of the herbs I was missing.
Perplexed that the owl would somehow know, I remembered what Kin had said when the big cat had first saved us from the bird. The animals know you can help them.
"Thanks," I said feeling odd because I was talking to a owl. With one last hoot it flew off into the night.
I looked at the wet plants, then looked at the description Kin had wrote next to the drawing for that plant. More likely to be found next to water. The other two plants I needed were also more likely to be found near water.
So there had to be water somewhere that the owl had found these ones by, at least thats what made sense since I doubt the plants were wet from owl slobber. That made me wonder could owls even slobber?
I shook my head hard. Stop getting distracted.
I walked for a while until I came to a small pond in a clearing. Almost immediately I found the rest of the things I was looking for. Gratefully I headed back to give the plants to Kin.
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