Literature
Bloodlust: Purity - Chapter 25
Chapter 25
Night Rain
In Miroku's house, blood colored all thoughts and turned words into silence. Outside, walking through the trees, Shippou did not know that there was panic, could not even scent Sango's danger through the trees, and his attention was on Murasaki. She had dressed in a borrowed yukata of Sango's, white and faintly embroidered with green vines. His eyes followed them, the long curls and curlicues, twists of thread that filled out to fragile leaves and wove in on themselves again. For a while, they walked without speaking, and Murasaki tingled with concern. He had asked her to come with him, to walk with him; she could