Chapter 18
Sliding her eye open ever so gently Rin slowly begun to take notice of her exterior surroundings, it obviously wasn't her dorm. The walls were a strange shade of red? Or was it black? It was an odd color in general. The couch was also almost 'bed comfortable' instead of a thick block how Melody fell asleep on that thing Rin would never know.
"Melody!" Rin managed to shout quickly pushing herself up a little too fast as the purple clouded her vision shaking off her morning vision she stumbled to the nearest door, opening it with haste. "Morning, Morning!." A little girl probably a little bit older than six or seven shouted jumping up in down her purple hair flopping around her head as Sesshomaru sat at the other side of the room with a slight shake of his head.
"HI! My name's Persephone! I've decided you can call me Phoebe for short that's a long name around here!" The child shouted smiling as she continued jumping up and down her purple hair bobbing up and down everywhere, half covering her doggy ears.
"You shouldn't shorten your name till you've learned how to spell it properly" Sesshomaru said quickly as Rin looked up towards him. "Have you seen Melody?" Rin said straight to the point. "Yeah she's asleep on the chair over there" he pointed a crossed the room to the left. Rin let her eyes wander around breathing in the scene.
The room must've been a kitchen/living room it had contained a sink, cabinets, and other kitchen materials on the left in the direction Rin was facing further that way as if turning without moving forward or backwards would be the front door if one were to walk long enough. And on the right was a large living room with a TV. with so much dust you'd think it had never been used, containing hundreds of maps the had circles, time stamps, and X's with the same thing different time and another X over them again until it stopped at her own home with a giant circle surrounding it.
On the far right of the room was two giant sliding-glass doors that lead to a beautiful view of a balcony covered in white that hung just above the ocean. Rin paced over towards the door taking note of Phoebe sitting down a crossed from Sesshomaru at the island pouring over what looked like breakfast while babbling to him, incessantly.
She placed her hand on the map trying to figure out what it all was, what was with the X's and the time? And why was the circle placed directly over her own house? "He's been looking for you for a long time." the voice whispered in her ear. "Yeah and how would ye know?" Rin asked knowing she wouldn't see anything but glancing towards the balcony doors anyway.
"It's complicated..." the voice laughed, Rin pictured it as a physical being for some reason it was as if the physical being was watching the two conversing or the one trying to converse at the island. "You should ask about Phoebe" the voice was almost laughing as if she missed something. "Fine" Rin smiled sitting next to Phoebe at the island. "So is-she-the-girl-I-found's little sister?" she asked as Sesshomaru looked up towards her than towards Persephone and than back towards Rin. "No, Persephone is that same girl." He stated as Rin almost fell out of her chair at his seriousness.
"If you're joking don't use such a serious face it's misleading." She laughed repositioning herself near the island. "Rin...I'm not joking." He sighed as Rin looked towards Persephone, than towards her purple hair, Rin's eyes trailing up to Persephone's twitching doggy ears. "Probably not" Rin mumbled still hesitating.
"But I saw her just a week ago, and she was just a child no more than maybe a couple months old."
"It's called a 'time barrier. Although it was up stopping the aging for a while, the time the child was in the time barrier, it is rare and extremely hard to put up so there are bound to be side effects it was rare...when I was a child." He said hesitating before he added the last words.
"Well I did see the barrier myself." Rin sighed to herself playing with Persephone's dog ears, whom was ironically pretending to bark. "So what exactly is happening to her?" Rin asked suddenly feeling slightly protective of what was happening to Persephone as she brushed it off telling herself it was only right to feel responsible for the child since she was the one who rescued it.
"She'll probably age at an accelerated rate for a while; it's kind of like a disease except not that harmful." He looked like he was struggling to explain it himself. "Than she'll probably age like me instead of you" he sighed as Rin tilted her head in confusion "What do you mean?"
"Rin, I'm not normal"
Author's note: so those lovely state mandated tests started two days ago and are going to continue from two days ago (Tuesday) till next Tuesday because they decided that there wasn't enough testing. The sad part is I've only got to take two of the tests and only one day is eligible to go home if you don't have a test...it's cruel. You guys should know how reverse the scenery had become after five minutes of writers-block I completely changed it.