Title: Ides
Genre: General
Pairing(s): None
Word Count: 235
Ides
The wind was changing again.
Kanna had been watching the late-summer storm for hours. Lightning snaked over the tiny set of caverns she called home as the wind howled like a wounded beast.
Rain ran in torrents, forming a watery curtain, down the mouth of her cave. She was safe, and had no reason to worry, except..
She pressed her mirror to her breast, feeling a painful twinge flare across her back. A cool breeze gusted, bringing relief from the muggy air, but the pain still bit at her back.
Like a spider
Kanna rose and padded to the entrance of her cave. Another jolt ran across her back, and her hand dropped to touch the edge of her scar. Tracing the rough-slick skin as her free hand held her mirror.
Stepping forward, almost into the water, she fingered its gilded edges. Many things can happen over time. Schemes are laid to rest and villains are defeated by soon-to-be-forgotten heroes.
She watched it all within her mirror.
It, like she, was the last piece of Naraku. The only gift, other than life, he had bequeathed to her. She could still remember when it had took two hands to hold.
Lightning flashed again, flickering in the mirror's edge. Many things happened over time.
I want to be free.
The mirror slipped from Kanna's hands, shattering.
She stepped through the curtain, out into the summer storm, and did not look back.
