Kagome leaned against a nearby stone, tears pouring down. She wasn't sure what to do now. She couldn't get any closer to Kaede's hut. She tried from one side of the street to the other. She even tried to come along the back of the huts. Nothing. It was like an invisible line she couldn't cross.
She stared longingly at the home that was so close... and couldn't touch.
She pressed her hands against her face. What is going on?! she wailed to herself. It was like she was invisible or something, like a spirit.
... a spirit ... as in a soul?
Icy fingers crawled into her stomach. The wish. Had the wish somehow done this? But that didn't make sense. She had only wished for the souls trapped in the jewel to be freed. She certainly hadn't been inside it.
Arg.
Wait a minute. How had she worded the wish again?
'I wish for the souls inside the jewel to be free'?
No that wasn't it.
'I wish for the souls inside the jewel to pass on'?
Uh... that sounded close. But was it right? Would the wording matter if she was wishing with her heart? She pressed her hands to her eyes, trying to remember.
'I wish for the souls of the Shikon Jewel to pass on'.
That was it. Wait...
Did that mean she had been tied to the jewel?