Author’s Notes: This drabble TOTALLY came out of left field. It began as one thing, metamorphosed into another, and ended up as some strange combination of the two. (For a second, I wasn’t entirely sure what it meant.) It’s a “request drabble,” if you will, from an LJ buddy of mine, in response to a meme/tag regarding fandoms. She writes a drabble for me, and I write a drabble for her in return. And so on and so forth.

I LOVE the title. It was, more or less, the subject matter of the piece, but the word itself was so obscure, I couldn’t help but put it on display. Many kudos to Banana Rum for her exceptional vocabulary (and impeccable taste).

Disclaimer: Inuyasha © Rumiko Takahashi, Shogakukan, Yomiuri TV.

Recalcitrance
By Boggy

It was way back when, in another time, another place, that I remember thinking…

“My life is not your life.”

You were smaller then, in a consciousness outside my own, in a space beyond the desolate wastelands of reality. A place where all children begin, before curiosity and the cruelties of truth unveil the shadows that dance before our eyes.

…But looking back, there was fire in your step, and perspiration on your brow, and the crisp swing of the sickle chain as it struck against the fallen pine.

I see it now.

Kohaku… Are you still determined to die?