[There are more new scars, thankfully healing fast with daily doses of chroma. Three long lines where claws had scored through powerful muscle on her rump, gouges in the dip of her spine where human blended into equine and teeth had sunk in to try and wrest her to the ground. But those are hidden by her skirt, her pelt wrap... and it's probably for the best.]

He's already gone... At least, that's what the news announcements said. Once I made it back to the farmstead I didn't leave again until the fighting was all over, though, so I don't know how he got defeated in the end...

[If Sesshomaru had been here, though... He said that his real form was bigger than an entire forest clearing... And her hands tighten on his just a little more.]

It was really scary.

[She wasn't afraid to admit that.]