#shikon no tama

Inktober 2021: Crystal

Is it not a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt for so small a thing? So small a thing!“

Her nightmares were growing steadily worse. Dreams of darkness and despair, where she was utterly alone.

At first she’d put it down to the stress of trying to study for her entrance exams and being overtired - she didn’t get very much sleep while they were on the shard hunt, after all. Before this she had always been content when she returned home, grateful for a few nights sleep in a real bed.

But without the company of her friends, those tiny crystal shards seemed to whisper to her deepest fears. As if the jewel had a voice of its own.