It took three days for Inukimi to revert to her humanoid form. And even then, she was skittish and barely made eye contact.
But Kagome wasn't deterred. Sesshoumaru offered to set them back up in the cave, but she told him it would only make things worse.
"We don't want to give her the excuse to hide," she explained, slowly braiding Inukimi's hair, delicate wildflowers woven through the silver locks. "She has to face things head-on."
Sesshoumaru nodded from his usual place, a scroll in one hand as he leaned back against the tree trunk.
Kagome imagined a set of glasses perched on the edge of his nose and had to stifle her laughter.