Another chapter for those who read
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Above an esplanade, traveling far from the nearest human life and settlement but near enough to hear the sea yet much too high too be seen had there been anyone below, there is a member of the long extinguished Youkai race. A Taiyoukai, indeed the rarest and most powerful specimen that the late race ever created. A traitor to that very race.
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We had escaped shortly after sunset and the sunrise was nearing, as well as my present destination.
I had been observing her in her sleep for a while now. How had I known Her eyes reflect an azure color? I had not seen her in the light and she has yet to open her eyes. She seemed beautiful to me. Is that strange? I suppose it is. But there is a compelling beauty in the sight of someone seemingly so small and yet so dangerous. I thought this as I remembered the task her powers had accomplished with such facility. Her aura was dim again, barely visible and not powerful looking, more similar to a weak human. Yet her presence seemed to spark memories in me. Had we known each other before my isolation? Had she been someone close? I do not remember the days just before my imprisonment. Maybe an after effect of so many spells curses and tortures. Maybe; I had seen the girl break them all.
The sharp intake air she took as she was brought to consciousness startled me out of my thoughts.
I expected the scream, the spark of aura or power, the sobbing to begin any moment now. But I had not expected this.
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-Dreamscape-
-Kikyou's quarters-
–Kikyou Onee-sama…– I turned the cup with the black liquid she had handed me seconds ago –What is it? –
"It is an elixir …It…it will make you feel better..." She seemed to falter, and something inside me was screaming a whisper no….a lie…no…poison…for the heart…nooo… DO NOT FORGET …NOOOOO and it faded…
I did not heed to that voice, I never had. I had no reason to mistrust Kikyou.
I lifted the cup to my lips and drank.
…
My eyes widened as I saw everything else dissolve. I saw many things at the same time as if I had thousands of eyes. I saw the memories of the past three days, in which strange memories that didn't quite seem my own and didn't fit into my life had recurred to me…while my life and my past began to fade. Yet a few of those memories remained still. Memories in complete chaos. No beginning, no end. Horrible memories, memories of the castle, of Him being caught in a trap set by...set by…me, no that cannot be…Iwould never, I lo...Of Him being dragged away to some floor below, roaring, fighting, killing, just to reach me. To save me to be with me. Memories of Kikyou sanding above him with her bow aimed at him uttering words I could not hear, I iwould/i not hear. The war. The massacre. Kikyou slapping me because... Faraway screams I heard I the night. His screams in my dreams… His name! His name... What was his name…S…se…?
Everything gradually is absorbed by obscurity, the images, my memories, my past. And I new nothing else.
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-Another dream-
-In the corridor-
I am awake…Or am I Asleep?...I am walking…that, I do know…
I have always been here, in this place… no…I haven't. I have lived in the monastery with mi sister for…How many years? I cannot remember…But I remember something… something before the monastery but in the same place… no, the monastery was built thousands of years ago…I was not alive then…or was I? What is this voice that calls to me during my sleep… that lures me out of my bed to this corridor, to this door…why does he call me?... am I hallucinating? There is no one here, never has been. I know no men, either human or…or what?...
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KAGOME
WHY DO YOU TORTURE ME SO!
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The scream!...no, I do not want to hear hear it again!...no!...
The door opens…I step through…I see a void…
-End Dreamscape-
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She took a sharp intake of breath
She had been dreaming again. She never dreamed unless she was not in the monastery. So how come she was dreaming "again"?
She opened her eyes. She was indeed not in the monastery but on someone's shoulder. Some one with very long silvery white hair…
–Where am I? – It was the first thing that popped in her head but she said it with a flat voice. The only voice she had. Or didn't have. She was mute but communicated directly in the other persons mind.
The person carrying her seemed surprised at her lack of reaction of finding herself in an unknown place with an unknown person. He had no idea.
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To say I was surprised was an understatement. None of it showed
I finally found my voice but I didn't answer her, we were indeed nowhere…The particular land below was said to have meant death anyone who entered it. It had been my land
Long ago- I added as an after thought.
She seemed not to care and stood silent as I carried her to a place at a far corner of my former land, where not even trees or grass lived. Just her. The only thing I needed at the moment was an ally with information, and she indeed would have that…
We continued traveling in silence to the right of the rising sun.
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A.N.:
...thats north, in case it's too confusing.
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