[Ayumu -- or the creature that had once been Ayumu -- had run, after the ablution, before Hakkai could recover from the shock of feeling Chikusa's death and calling him back from it. She had been in the western district then, near Goku's temple.
She may have roamed far from her original location, but she can't have gone too far. Hakkai had left Chikusa and Ken at home, to recover, and because he can't imagine taking the two of them into danger again so soon; but he's not foolish enough to go alone. He had asked Gojyo.
There may be other things he'll need to deal with, eventually, but he can't let Ayumu continue to roam like this. In her place, he knows what he would have wanted... and it is to know that he wouldn't be able to hurt anyone else.]
Have you seen anything?
[He pitches his voice low as his glance flicks over the tangled vegetation. It's harder for things to hide with the trees mostly leafless for winter, and he can feel the unsettling energy of an ayakashi nearby. Even out here, at the fringes of the Heavens, that's not normal. It must be her.]
Hakkai & Gojyo
She may have roamed far from her original location, but she can't have gone too far. Hakkai had left Chikusa and Ken at home, to recover, and because he can't imagine taking the two of them into danger again so soon; but he's not foolish enough to go alone. He had asked Gojyo.
There may be other things he'll need to deal with, eventually, but he can't let Ayumu continue to roam like this. In her place, he knows what he would have wanted... and it is to know that he wouldn't be able to hurt anyone else.]
Have you seen anything?
[He pitches his voice low as his glance flicks over the tangled vegetation. It's harder for things to hide with the trees mostly leafless for winter, and he can feel the unsettling energy of an ayakashi nearby. Even out here, at the fringes of the Heavens, that's not normal. It must be her.]