Chapter 41: Ensanguined
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Kagome held on tightly to the small girl as wild eyes watched once solid sand blow away in an unseen breeze. Sometime during the battle the sun had begun its uneasy ascent into the sky, its first bright beams bleeding into night's dark fringes.
Airi turned once the last of their prison melted away, but with a cry buried her face back into Kagome's shoulder.
Kagome could understand the child's discomfort. The desert's floor was speckled with crimson blood and broken bodies.
It was with the experience of battle's won and bloody aftermaths that Kagome stood unmoved before bloodied ninja.
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