The Snow Angel by SunsetMiko

The Compassion

Chapter 81 - The Compassion *Ambition*

Migotoyami was panicking once more. Someone had just destroyed another spell bag. But the woman was dead! She had seen it with her very eyes. She had expended too much power with her last viewing spell, so she could not cast it again for several hours at least, which left her in the dark as to what had happened.

Her thoughts were running a mile a minute as she tried to think of some way to explain this newest development. The woman had surely been dead. She had to be with her throat sliced open like it was. If she had somehow clung to life, her companions would not have been mourning, but trying to save her. How, then, had another bag been destroyed? Was it possible that the dragons had killed the wrong woman? She had seen another, but another male had been holding her. Surely she wasn't the one in love with the Western Lord.

She ran over everything she had ever heard about Lord Sesshoumaru through her mind, even the most obscure bits that she had once attributed to exaggeration and embellishment. Finally, a thought struck her. The Dog General's sword of heaven. It had been said that the sword could bring someone back from the dead. To do so, however, required the user to have compassion for the one they wished to revive. She had heard that the sword had been left to the elder brother, while the Tetsusaiga was given to the hanyou.

She had always assumed Sesshoumaru would be unable to wield it, and when word got around that the taiyoukai was attempting to steal Inuyasha's sword to make it his own, it had only further convinced her of that fact. She hadn't noticed if he was carrying the Tenseiga, but that had to be it. That was the only plausible answer. That he had been devastated by the woman's death was obvious, so he must have felt compassion for her.

This was a troubling development, but it gave her a chance to save herself. She simply had to be ready when the Western Lord finally located her lair. It wasn't easy to find in the least, but it was an inevitability. Once he arrived, she would have to speak quickly. It was the feelings he held for that woman that would save her in the end.