Similar Features Chapter 16 by MissMizui, literature
Literature
Similar Features Chapter 16
I sat in the window watching the sunrise. Rin would come soon, followed closely by a servant carrying our breakfast. After the first few days here, I’d stopped bothering to dress for the occasion. Once I had realized that Sesshoumaru had no intention to visit, I had decided that very little was worth dressing for. In fact, I kept to the room, only leaving to bathe after doing my daily routine of exercises.
Rin was more polite than the servants were, taking my yukata in with no more than a glance, but the servants often gawked, one had even dropped the platter he carried. And that was without showing off the yellow hued wings that I kne
I stood waiting for a blow that never came. I opened my eyes to find my view obscured by silver but beyond that I could see the men standing around, fear filling their faces. Seconds later I knew what had changed. Before me stood Sesshoumaru, looking just as he had when I left him in his den so long ago, stoic and cold, but he was here none the less.
Slowly I became aware of sound again, hearing the curses of the rattled commander, the sounds of confusion from his men, but most clearly of all I heard his voice.
“Girl, will you come with me?” He spoke in an undertone, glancing from me to the men behind him, I followed his gaze ta
Whispers followed me through the outskirts of the village; everywhere I looked there was another cluster of people who had stopped their work to watch. The people were so different from my own, but familiar all the same in the shapes of their features, mirroring those I had become so familiar with in the time spent with Sesshoumaru. Suspicion filled their eyes as they watched me, children were snatched from their games by worried parents, but I could not blame them; I was Fae, an outsider from faraway lands, they should be suspicious.
I did not make it far into the village before I was stopped by armed men. They blocked the path into the mai