- Drabble Collection: The Icarus Factor -
XLIX
Precipice
I wanted to destroy you, Kagome. I have built lies upon lies and then truths upon lies for years, ever since I first saw you, a blue-eyed, innocent child, and knew that you were the one who had once destroyed me. I believed it was a reincarnation – that you were that girl, made anew, in the same way that the girl had once been Kikyou. It was by your hands – your hands – it was minutes ago -
She steps out of the well and into his arms; her trust astonishes him, when she has newly come from the worst threat he ever made to her life. He scents her tears, and her pain, and the odor of the shikon no tama, sharp as if newly minted from fresh souls.
He reaches out his hands around her and holds her close, close close.
All his thoughts vanish into exhilarated delight.
This is more precious than vengeance.
