InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ Laconic ❯ Cognizance ( Chapter 7 )

Cognizance

Word Count: 196

 

She points to the dead girl, shaking. “Do you know who she is?”

 

The part of me that I'm trying to remember says yes, says also to curl at her side and die too, says to clean her face with my tears and then to cradle her in my arms and never ever let her go, but all I can see is her blood, and all I can remember is no.

 

She waits, unaware of the fact that she's keening, and I stare at her, silent, that part of me wanting to say yes so badly that it hurts, but the only answer is an old pain that throbs in the back of my neck.

 

“Who are you?” I say instead.

 

She glances at the dead girl, and trembles, looking horribly afraid.

 

“I'm…I'm your…” she falters, gripping the tiny stone in her hands. She looks at the dead girl, her eyes closed. She weeps. “…I'm your sister.”

 

A window inside me opens, sunlight rushing in.

 

“Aneue?”

 

The pain in my neck throbs harder, but her hug is so fierce, and her tears are so hot, and I want so badly to believe that this is real.