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Chapter 8: Silence

Sen didn't talk when she woke up not even when Rin asked how she was. They rolled up the sleeping stuff and cleaned the floor. Sen was slow today she had pain everywhere she even thought that her right arm might be broken.

"Ok I don't what's wrong with you, but I think your hurt, so your going to spend the day with Kamajii." Rin said as she grabbed Sen's left arm and dragged her down to the boiler room.

"Kamajii something is wrong with Sen, I think her arm is broken and she won't speck," Said Rin as she walked into the boiler room.

Kamajii looked concerned, with one of his many arms he put a blanket and pillow on the ground. Sen walked over and sat down on the blanket. Rin left as two of Kamajii's arms were checking Sen's right arm.

"Not broken, not broken, good, now lay down Sen get some rest," said Kamajii.

Sen had been thinking Haku probably had another worm in him and then she would need another Nigadango(bitter dumpling) like the one she got from the river spirit the first time. "No I'm sorry Kamajii, I need to get a Nigadango. Do you know where I can get one?"

"A Nigadango, you say? Those can only be found in Kniknichmai it is a three day walk from the second stop after Swamp Bottom, Miishmii I think is the name of the stop. But I'm sorry I have no train tickets." Replied Kamajii.

"Doesn't matter I have to get one," said Sen standing up she walked to the door and put her hand on the doorknob. The door was harder to open with her left hand( her right hand might not have been broken but it still hurt). Rin walked in right when Sen tried to walk through the door, but a force field of some kind stopped her and threw her back. Sen hit the far wall. Rin dropped the bowls of rice she was carrying and both her and Kamajii went to Sen.

"Are you ok?" They both asked the still conscious Sen. She couldn't hear them, everything was silent, then everything for Sen went black.

When Sen woke up she felt awful, and she still couldn't hear. Sen was in the boiler room she tried to get up, to only find the excruciating pain in her right arm, now it was broken. Sen pushed herself up with her left arm, but only stood for a few seconds before she fell down. Kamajii who had noticed that Sen was awake caught her with one of his arms.

"You just rest now Sen," said Kamajii.

Sen saw that Kamajii's mouth moved but she didn't hear what he had said, She replied rather loud, "What?...What Kamajii I can't hear you? I can't hear me! I can't hear!"

Kamajii wrote something quickly down on a piece of paper and handed it to Sen. Sen read the note: Your lack of hearing is a side effect from the spell to keep you in Aburaya. Your right arm is broken, and you've been unconscious for a week. You need at least one day of rest before you can get up and go back to work.

"Work?" Sen asked, right when Rin walked in.

"Sen your awake!" Rin screamed as she put down the bowls of food.

"Rin she can't hear you," replied Kamajii as he handed Rin paper and a pen.

"Yu-Baaba wants her to start working as soon as she is awake," Rin said sadly.

"Tomorrow Rin, tomorrow she can, but I want her to sleep down here I think there is more to that spell then deafness," Replied Kamajii. Rin looked concerned waiting for him to continue, "I think she is dying slowly 2 months at the most, 3 if she didn't work, but we both know she has to work. Don't tell her Rin don't tell anyone, she needs to work for the hope that Yu-Baaba will spare her."

Rin was crying she held Sen tight. She knew that something was wrong but she didn't hear what it was. Rin wrote on the paper and handed it to Sen, it said Yu-Baaba is making you go back to work tomorrow, rest now Sen

Sen nodded her head and said "Ok Rin." Rin smiled and handed her a bowl of rice and a dumpling. Rin got up and threw down the Susuwatari the Kompeitou, then she turned and left the boiler room. Sen ate her meal, feeling much better and went to sleep.