Indiscriminate Happenings
Fandom: xxxHoLiC
Characters/Pairing:Doumeki, Yuuko, Maru, Moru
Prompt:1:7- Lost
Rating: T
Chapter Genre: Angst
Summery: "You lost him?"
I
"You lost him?"Yuuko asked, her lips pulling into a frown. Doumeki bowed his head, fist gripping his bow and his quiver slung over his other shoulder.
"Something grabbed him," he ground out, tightly suppressed panic swelling up in his chest again. Blood leaked from a wound above his eye, blinding him. His chest heaved from anxiety and exertion. Yuuko swept from the room, Maru and Moru sitting morosely on the floor, hands linked with one anothers. Minutes later, she returned, an box clenched tightly in her hands.
"I had hoped we wouldn't have to use this," she murmured, holding it out for Doumeki to take. "The price is the safe return of my apprentice."
Doumeki nodded, snatching the box and clicking it open, a brief moment of insight overcoming him as he stared at the chain link bracelet with a glittering blue gem glowing darkly attached to it.
"The brighter it gets, the closer he is. If it goes out completely, you know he has moved on."
Doumeki ran faster than he'd ran in his life.
II
At first I didn't know what to put for the item, then I looked at my bracelet. The reason it glows is because it has some of his, well, I suppose you can say chi, or soul in it (life source, whatever). The closer it is to its source, the less space between them, the more power is fed into it, so even if he's halfway around the world, so long as he's alive, it'll still glow, just really, really darkly. Black instead of blue.
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Kudos to anyone who could tell I made that up on the spot.