"What exactly are your orders?" Kagome asked her attendant. The butterfly youkai was currently laying out a kimono for the next day, and Kagome grimaced at being forced into the full garb for the tenth day in a row.
"To see to any and all needs of the Shikon Miko," Tsubasa replied, flattening out the lavender silk.
"And if my need is to be left alone? Or dress myself?"
Tsubasa frowned, antennae shifting before she did. "Miko-sama, we've been over this."
"I swear I'm not ungrateful," Kagome argued, "but my need for independence is not being met."
The youkai looked startled, as if she hadn't considered that fact.