Things Behind and Under
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Caught forever where she died, Kikyou wanders. She can't feel anything, her veins are dust and her body clay, but her head can remember. She's been here before, twisted and tangled in tiny knots, trying not to tell anyone, but no one would listen anyway even if she did.
He understood, or so she thought, but now he has the Next Big Thing, his desires selfish, colored red. He moves on; she doesn't.
Love - so easily forgotten - weighs her down, anchors her to the earth, and every time she looks at him it whispers again, soft and cruel -
- remember when?