Sango and the Book
The first time Sango saw a bound book was about a month or two after her family was slaughtered, and her life took a direction she never would have imagined. The traveling group that had adopted her was a motley crew of holy types and youkai, with a monk, priestess, fox cub youkai and a volatile hanyou as their unofficial leader. After Sango's tragedy and their initial misguided conflict, she was embraced with surprising warmth, the young priestess offering her comfort and companionship.
That following month, they had journeyed to the plains of Musashi. This was where their magic well was located, a portal with which the hanyou and priestess could travel between worlds.
The young priestess Kagome was spirited away for several days, having fought with InuYasha the hanyou, before returning with many foreign objects and foods. She seemed upset, but said nothing of it. In fact Sango felt as if Kagome was trying to hide her negative feelings, a theory which solidified when the younger woman quickly returned to her own time again. In the miko's haste she had left some of her belongings, one being a rectangular object with pieces of scrolls fastened together. Sango had never resented her life as a demon exterminator. It allowed her many privileges girls her age would never experience in different villages. She had been taught to read and write, along with basic mathematics. Her enthusiasm gave to wayward dreams of being a scholar, but she knew that was an impossible ideation. She flipped it open to a random page towards the beginning and read the first sentence-
'Free Fall Equations In order to understand what makes a Free Fall Equation, it is important to understand speed, acceleration, free fall, and acceleration due to gravity.
Quick Review Speed- the distance an object travels in a given time, distance/time Acceleration- the rate in which an object changes speed or direction; change in velocity/time interval The Difference Between Free Fall and Falling Whenever an object is dropped in the air from a certain height, this object is falling. The object is not experiencing free fall due to air resistance. If you drop a feather and a piece of rock from the roof, the rock will accelerate faster and get to the ground faster.
Air resistance is the frictional force air exerts against a moving object. However, if you put the feather and the rock in a tube and remove the air with a vacuum pump, the feather and the rock will have the same acceleration.
Conclusion: Objects experience free fall when there is no air resistance or when air resistance is negligible.'
Sango read and reread the paragraph, feeling both confusion and excitement. She could almost grasp the concept, but found herself tripping on foreign terms. Just then, Miroku disturbed her thoughts. "InuYasha is pacing on the roof of Kaede's shrine and I'm becoming very exhausted trying to talk with him. Would you please come assist me?"
His face was strained, and Sango felt a twinge of sympathy for the monk. Closing the book, she set it among her things, mentally vowing to return once they had calmed the hanyou. She glanced again at the cover, trying to sound out the title. "An Introdution to P-Pfee-sicks…" she muttered, before Miroku's gentle calling of her name pulled her away again.
Maybe Kagome would be willing to bring more of the strange scroll collections from her time.