Her words tore at him in a way nothing else, physical or emotional, had ever before. They were a blow that knocked the breath from him and sent his heart soaring.
If only to come crashing down moments later when a final sigh passed her lightly upturned lips.
"Kagome!" Panic washed thought from his head and her words were meaningless in light of the current development.
Death.
That she had waste strength, perhaps enough to have made a difference, on a few words that could have waited, waited until she was well and whole once more pained him more than he would care to admit.
…No…
No…
No!
It's not right!
It's not fair!
"Life and death rarely are." He startled at the cool voice.
He hadn't realized what he had assumed were thoughts contained to his mind had been spoken allowed, or that at some point during his panic several figures had arrived escorted by Koenma himself.
"Ah buck up detective- eh ex-detective the cavalry had arrived!"