Hyakki Yagyo

by velvet-sometimes

When something old awakens into a world of everything new, there are consequences for the actions of the past. And when spirits long since forgotten start to answer the call of magic, and Dragons seek retribution for the wounds of the land, Chihiro's world changes in impossible ways.

14. Searching

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Glistening Hunger -White Marble

Chihiro closed her eyes to the lullaby of fury that was dim and soft in her dream world. The sound of his claws that ripped at cobble stones as feet shifted restlessly, and the heavy swings of his tail that made the earth shake with their impact. Snarling speech that drowned out all life -making everything close in upon itself, tightening at the seams. And yet he was singing her to sleeping.

"Forty-Nine moons I spent searching for the soul of the girl- keeping and healing the body. Forty-Nine suns she spent caught between worlds -passing between both and belonging in neither- preparing to begin her next life."

Chihiro curled tighter in upon herself at his words, fingers clenching around her wet bedding as she fought to lose herself into it. Fighting the memories that slowly intermingled into something more substantial -more solid, at his every word.

Sharks swam across her vision.

"You serve up your salvation as if a lamb for slaughter -your chosen a token to ward off your own demise." his voice was sardonic as he continued to address his audience, and she could hear the murmured unease that followed. "Well I have granted your wish, Swine; bring to me your Sake so that I may drink from it and finish what you began."

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