p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;"Miroku passed his theory along, letting Kagome draw her own conclusions. She turned it over, looking back at Miroku only to give him a dubious look./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;""He wants to play a game?" She asked./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;"Miroku smiled but shook his head. "Not exactly. As you well know, kitsune's are incredibly curious creatures. And you are quite the oddity – a powerful priestess, pure emand /emplayful. While your powers are strong, they're relatively harmless to demons, unless you wish them to be."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;"She thought it over. "That's not because I'm strong, that's because I have a lot of friends who are demons! If anything, most people would say that makes me a embad /empriestess."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;"He smiled at her, more gently than before. "On the contrary, I think that's what makes you such a good emperson/em. You aren't from this time, and you aren't inherently bias against people who are different than you, demon and human alike. Isn't it better to be able to control who you hurt?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;"She made a face. "I'm never in control of my powers."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;""Maybe that's because they already do what you subconsciously will them to. You've produced grand shows of energy when you or your friends are threatened, and your emhama no ya/em are a way for you to signal you want to attack. You can correct me if I'm wrong, but you don't normally emwant/em to hurt anyone."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;""Of course not," she agreed, although Miroku could tell from the upset tone that it was more because she didn't think emanyone/em ever wanted to hurt people, then from him implying she was special. Which he was. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;"Kagome wasn't just rare because she was a strong priestess, or because she had the shikon no tama…she was rare because of how kind she was, and how she accepted everyone into her fold. She held life – all life – in such high regard, and whether that was from the era she'd been raised in, some sort of subconscious effort on the jewels part, or just something inherently emher/em, it didn't surprise him that she found herself in this situation. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;"Afterall, kitsune's favored things of beauty, and anyone who had seen Kagome's unique powers up close would be compelled to look further./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;""He wants to play a game?" She asked./span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;"Miroku smiled but shook his head. "Not exactly. As you well know, kitsune's are incredibly curious creatures. And you are quite the oddity – a powerful priestess, pure emand /emplayful. While your powers are strong, they're relatively harmless to demons, unless you wish them to be."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;"She thought it over. "That's not because I'm strong, that's because I have a lot of friends who are demons! If anything, most people would say that makes me a embad /empriestess."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;"He smiled at her, more gently than before. "On the contrary, I think that's what makes you such a good emperson/em. You aren't from this time, and you aren't inherently bias against people who are different than you, demon and human alike. Isn't it better to be able to control who you hurt?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;"She made a face. "I'm never in control of my powers."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;""Maybe that's because they already do what you subconsciously will them to. You've produced grand shows of energy when you or your friends are threatened, and your emhama no ya/em are a way for you to signal you want to attack. You can correct me if I'm wrong, but you don't normally emwant/em to hurt anyone."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;""Of course not," she agreed, although Miroku could tell from the upset tone that it was more because she didn't think emanyone/em ever wanted to hurt people, then from him implying she was special. Which he was. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;"Kagome wasn't just rare because she was a strong priestess, or because she had the shikon no tama…she was rare because of how kind she was, and how she accepted everyone into her fold. She held life – all life – in such high regard, and whether that was from the era she'd been raised in, some sort of subconscious effort on the jewels part, or just something inherently emher/em, it didn't surprise him that she found herself in this situation. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif;"Afterall, kitsune's favored things of beauty, and anyone who had seen Kagome's unique powers up close would be compelled to look further./span/p