Chapter 63
"Where is he?"
The tree demon sighed, "The young lord left late last night to tend to some things."
"Did—,"
"He divulged nothing, other than to say you'd understand."
Scrunching her face in thought, Kagome racked her memory for any clue of why he'd left her behind. Then, an image flitted across her mind: one of a gap-toothed little girl.
'Of course…We'd planned to make our way to her before my injury.'
Unrealized tension lifted from her shoulders. A smirking kitsune joined her imaginings to create a heart-warming picture of the two playing.
"I suppose I do," she stated.
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