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Instead of calming her mind, her grandfather's story had done little more than make her dream more vivid. She was sure this
time, this wasn't the same man her grandfather had spoken of, not exactly. He was different. This man was youkai.
Her feet hit the floor, and she found herself walking. She didn't know where she was going, but her feet seemed to have a
mind of their own, and she found herself outside. She stood on the stone walk, the cool wind twisting her hair around her
face, her eyes on the old well-house. The door hung open, slapping the wall repeatedly. "That's not supposed to be open."
She murmured, and walked over to shut the door. Her eyes adjusted to the darkness in the well-house quickly.
It had been a long time since she'd been in here. When she was a kid, she used to pretend that this was her own little house.
The well, with it's little wooden door sealed, made a nice table for a little girl to sit her dolls on. She walked up to it
slowly, remembering all the tea-parties she'd had here.
Suddenly there
was a shrill squeak behind her. "Mrrrrrooooww?"
"Yaaaaaaaaaaaaa!" Kagome
squealed, whirling around and landing on her rear on the well. "Buyo!" she yelled, seeing the ridiculously fat cat sitting
up on the step. "You dumb cat!" she scolded, and began to stand up, but there was a loud creak and the old latch on the well
broke, it's small wooden doors falling open.
Kagome screamed as she fell
backwards into the well. She seemed to fall forever but she refused to open her eyes. Suddenly she hit the ground with a thud,
and the wind was knocked out of her. She lay there on the ground for a moment, staring up at the starry sky. The starry sky.she
thought, that's not right. "Where's the well-house ceiling?" she wondered.
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