All This Time: The Jewel Watcher
Episode 8
So I came to stand near an inn on a summer�s night, knowing that the priestess had found what she was looking for. Then I saw her, the pitiful shade of the one who had been. Not dead but also not alive, Kikyo still wandered the world. I saw her intention in her eyes before she realized it herself. She was so intent on the couple on the roof, that I easily circled behind her and called for her attention. I found that, when not otherwise distracted, dying had in fact only served to heighten her powers of perception. She could almost hear my thoughts when I told her that I could not allow her to act. Kagome may have been a strange one, but she and Sango shared a deep bond. If there was hope to purify the jewel, it laid in their collaboration. I evoked Midoriko�s name as an ultimate challenge. To defy my mistress would have been the same as Kikyo declaring her allegiance to the darkness within the jewel. I hoped that she would find peace, but not if it prevented the purification of the jewel.