Nothing To See (ficlet; Saiyuki)

[opalmatrix]

Title: Nothing To See
Author: opalmatrix
Warnings: worksafe; violence, blood, a cussword
Pairing(s): n/a
Spoilers: Events at the end of Reload 6 and beginning of Reload 7
Notes: Written for saiyuki_time challenge #16, the Sixth Sense. Time allowed 30 minutes; actual time: about that, but I ended up tinkering with it a little bit afterward for maybe 5 more minutes, because I originally wrote it in dribs and drabs.
Summary: It's hard to blunt the sharpest of senses for long, but sometimes a moment is all that it takes.

The night was alive with the tiny, mindlessly content sounds of insects ...