"Are you going to keep her here?"
Sesshoumaru considered her question, eying his mother as she slept in Kagome's lap. "I do not know."
Kagome wanted to tease him—she'd never heard Sesshoumaru admit he was unsure about something before—but held her tongue at the forlorn expression that crinkled his brow.
"She's been staying in the western garden, right? That's why it was closed off to everyone else?"
He nodded, leaning closer to remove the cup from his mother's hands.
"Well, why don't we fix it up? It'll be easier to keep it in one piece now that she's not walking around in her true form. I could keep visiting her here until it was ready."
"You would do that?"