Title: Kotodama
Word Count: 126
Summary: Keep your secret.
Don't do it yet; Sango is watching. Her eyes reflect the moonlight. Fall into your perfect pattern.
Don't finger the collar.
Blank your face, dull your eyes, smile a vapid smile. Drop your defenses and pacify the wary taijiya. Keep her trust, keep your life.
Watch the fire, the girl by the fire. Study her sleeping face. Soften your edges until they think you're a lovesick fool. You can wait; you've done it before.
Keep your claws still. Don't reach down and crush her throat- her damned throat that issues all her humiliating commands. Don't worry her in your teeth until she's limp and bloody.
Don't bury her corpse until you can bury the collar with it.
Don't do it.
Not yet.
Don't finger the collar.