Chap. 2
Wait... sky?
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Okay, what had just happened? She'd fallen down a hole, that's what - a hole that was inside a building, for some reason. What the hell was the point in that, she huffed irritably. Probably to keep people from falling into it... She studied the dirt shaft surrounding her. A ray of sunlight shone upon a half-buried something gleaming whitely near her left foot, but Eri decided that up was the important direction at the moment. She couldn't judge the distance to the top, but it looked intimidating... taller than her own height above her head. But she liked climbing things, she reminded herself. Wasn't she always jealous of her cousin in Shimane with a zillion trees at his disposal? Thus reassured, she began scaling the hole, clinging to the sparse vegetation and the few rocks available to her fingers, and making her own footholds where the dirt was soft enough.
Eventually she heaved herself over the top, where she lay panting on the ground. Had she somehow fallen all the way through the earth and ended up in Argentina or something?! The back of her neck was prickling, but Eri couldn't tell whether it was sweat trickling down or the grass that grew thickly all around. Shifting into a sitting position, she squinted around through the bright sunlight. She was in the middle of a small clearing, trees and brush growing green with luxuriant satisfaction on all sides. It was very beautiful - and absolutely silent.
Okay, here's the second one... took me a while to write it. My mind hasn't been on writing lately, which postponed things. Originally posted on lj for the InuYasha Fanfic Contest, for the theme "ray of sunshine".
Thank you to kokoronagomu, my lovely reviewer, who has already read this at lj. :)
Kokoro means heart or spirit, right? What does nagomu mean?
