Nightmares
Her feet carried her from him, like a frightened doe running over the land, her eyes wide and terrified. Of course she had known; the man whom she loved was really a monster. She had seen him kill without remorse, humans and youkai alike. She had seen him in the worst of his times, when the blood from a hunt stained his hair and covered his mouth.
It was something else to see him enjoy killing, to become the animal that he kept so well hidden. So Rin ran across the land away from that animal and searched for the humanity that the Great Demon Lord had left behind.
