She's too small to contain what she feels.
Here in the dark, without anyone to judge their differences, they are stripped to the bone of everything but what they share. And as his heart beats in time with hers, expunging the boundaries dividing their species, life synchronizes between them.
Kagome shudders, and something too big to define swells up from her crux of her soul.
He senses it too. "Miko?"
"I—"
But her voice won't work.
So, she abandons it. Her arms sliding around his neck, she kisses him, stealing his breath in the same moment she loses hers.
