Prompt: Diabolical Plot
500 years ago:
"You realise that sitting under tree roots is the dumbest place to be during a thunderstorm, right?"
Vivid gold slid open. "No one asked your opinion."
He lay beneath a cage of massive, overgrown tree-roots that sheltered him from rainfall like a clenched fist overhead. "My barrier protects me from lightning strikes, should one hit the tree."
"Oh."
Without invitation, she joined him. Kagome shivered, not noticing hooded eyes roam over her.
"Why venture into a storm alone, foolish girl?"
"This wasn't some diabolical plot to get caught in the rain. I was getting space from the village."