Lungs

Blood. Surrounding her, the thick taste of it was all she knew. It reminded her of someone else. A beast in human form, slashing and rending her flesh. Killing a man with starshine hair and citrine eyes. Murdering him in front of her—

NO!

Kagome jolted awake, bandages drenched in sweat and hyperventilating. Dizzy, she brought her knees up and put her head in between them while trying to calm her labored breathing.

She cried keening wails for her lost companion, her almost lover, laid low by his arrogance and an unfamiliar enemy.

A wolf howled mournfully in the distance.