It was probably about a month later that my sight manifested into something less fleeting. At first, they were simply shadows. Then, clouds of color. Then, blurry shaped colors. And finally, I saw.
I couldn't see far. Maybe a 10 meter radius. 20 meters when I was feeling particularly strong. Thank goodness the girl didn't need to take my diary out in order for me to get a visual of my surroundings. If she did, I'd be stuck looking at the inside of a bag the whole time.
Kagome was a lot different than I had imagined. She was petite in height and very feminine in appearance. However, her choice of dress was outrageously revealing. I discovered that many of the girls on one side of the portal dressed as such so maybe she wasn't a harlot. More than half her time was spent at whatever place the portal took her too. It must have been very far away in Japan since the landscape and dress were so different compared to the place I think is called Tokyo.
Her company was an odd bunch. I can't say I've seen too many Japanese people but I'm pretty sure some of her friends weren't human. Care of Magical Creatures barely brushed over beasts of Asia so I can't even guess what they were. In addition, the magic that they used wasn't channeled through a wand. Rather, it was channeled through other tools or even just their hands. Kagome put magic into arrows. The humanoid white haired man shot spells through a ridiculously large sword. The man named Miroku threw pieces of paper at others that turned into fire. Or maybe he was not human since he had a black hole in his hand? I could not decide if I wanted to call the woman named Sango human either since she wielded a huge boomerang that no man could possibly throw with her ease. She certainly didn't look part giant though.
Magic seemed to be used mostly for offense and defense against monsters, and Kagome's group encountered A LOT of monsters. They didn't seem to know any practical spells judging by how they laundered their clothes by hand and scrubbed pots in the rivers. Was it just a cultural difference to not use magic for chores? If so, that was just stupid.
What shocked me most though was that the one side of the portal was most certainly the muggle world AND Kagome was most certainly a mudblood. No wonder I never felt any spells being fired on that side of the portal. And did the mudblood seriously attend muggle school? Why wasn't she invited to some formal Japanese school of witchcraft? How did she even know how to use magic without proper schooling because her family certainly were muggles. Or were they just all unfortunate squibs?
Ugh. Just my luck. Stuck for eternity in a book and it had to fall into the hands of a mudblood. I guess it could be worse. She could have been ugly.