Drabble contest submission
Theme: Age
"Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again."
-Robert Jordan
-------------------------------------------------------------
What is in an Age? Times of peace, prosperity, conflict, resolution—turning and turning until the time is once more where it began. Traced like the threads on a spider's crystalline web, one returns again and again to those things that make life painful; death, destruction, war, famine, oppression…being pinned to a tree for fifty years.
He laughed softly to himself.
Across the fire, he watched Kagome as she continued her story to an enraptured Shippou. Even Miroku and Sango were intent on such a silly story, a childish tale. Remarkable.
He knew that in her Age, their names were forgotten, their quest relegated to nothing more than a fantastical myth, a legend. The Hanyou and the Miko, a half-demon and a priestess. The Shikon no Tama was sold as a cheap bauble, a replica of the powerful stone they still sought. Miroku and Sango, Shippou and Kilala, even that stupid scrawny wolf—all forgotten, names and deeds invisible in the annals of time.
Would she bring them back when all this was said and done, their resident storyteller? If they survived this, would she return to her time and renew the stories, refresh the legends, give their friends again the honor they deserved for their sacrifice?
Knowing Kagome, she would. The world would know of their deeds, and the ending of their tale that had yet to be written.
He hoped it would be a good ending. For all of them, but especially for her.