"Tsssh. Mortals. Keep doing that." 

What was that reaction?

- later, the centipede is doing something. "It's still moving!"

Kaede's - looking at it - 

This has been a VERY LONG DAY and for some reason it isn't over - 

- If she's really lucky Inuyasha will get bored and wander off - 

"The Shikon Jewel gives power to demons. So long as she has it, she cannot be slain." 

Pause. Kagome seems to have a lot of power. "Do you see it?"

Does she see - no, not immediately, it's not on the ground - wait -

She can see a portion of the centipede glowing, the way she saw it glow when it was inside of her. Her limbs feel like lead, at this point, but she winces and hauls herself up, over to the jewel, and pulls it out of the centipede innards.

"I think that's mine," says the bigger, scarier demon, in an unambiguously threatening tone of voice.

Kaede's response to that is IMMEDIATELY NEGATIVE, as is obvious from her facial expression, but she isn't taking any direct action yet -

She's so tired. She looks at Kaede for direction, for anything resembling an alternative, or a decision, or a suggestion -

"You must not let him have it," she warns. "Mistress Centipede with the jewel would be bad enough, but Inuyasha -"

"'Inuyasha would become the greatest demon the world has ever known.' Or something. Better things to do than care what your speech is, old woman! If you want to live, girl, give me the jewel!"

Well, this sure is a problem of her own creation, and Inuyasha sure does seem like the sort of person who is also willing to murder people over mystical artifacts, which is not the sort of person who should have them. It's stupid - she's exhausted, and already injured, and no match for him anyway, and has nowhere else she can go and no one else she can call on - but she caused this problem, so she has a responsibility not to turn her back on it, even if she can't fix it.

Kagome hauls herself to her feet, groaning and clutching her side as she does so.

"No," she says. And then she runs, still dripping blood.

"Do you think I'm not willing?" he says, smashing into the ground in front of her hard enough to leave a crater larger than she is. "Or are you just dumb?"

"I'm just dumb!" she yells, and runs in the opposite direction. She should really head towards the well, that was her original alternate plan for the centipede. Unfortunately, she's all turned around now, and mostly just running wherever he and the villagers aren't. 

"Well, unfortunately for you, you smell like my worst enemy!"

And he's going to - 

Barely miss her - 

Again.

"That seems like a stupid basis for deciding how much you hate someone who just unpinned you from a tree!"

It occurs to her that, given that she can't run very fast... at all.... now, and she can't fight, and she isn't exactly sure where the well is, about the only chance she even maybe has to get out of this without giving him the jewel is to talk her way out. Not that she's doing very well at that, right now, but at least the conversation is ongoing? Sort of?

She's going to keep running while she tries to improve things on the talking front, though.

"Eh, don't worry, you're much uglier!"

Miss (or possibly dodge).

"Also dumber!"

Miss (or possibly dodge).

"Well, you're being incredibly ungrateful!"

Man, she is just not good at this diplomacy while running for her life thing, is she.

Ahead of her is the river, flowing below a fairly sheer cliff face, which it occurs to her is not really a great direction to be running in. Whoops.

And, halted, Inuyasha raises his claws - 

"Well, nice knowing you!"

And that would be when Kaede tosses a prayer-bead necklace over his head.

"Bind him to cease!" she says urgently - 

As he turns angrily - 

What kind of instruction is that!! What does that even mean!! Is this a - glowing light power thing again, she doesn't know how to do those -

She steps backward, mostly on instinct, which unfortunately sends her tumbling down the cliff and onto the next ledge below it.

This distracts Inuyasha!

"You aren't getting away!" And he'll jump after her.

"Speak a spell of binding! ANY SPELL!"

She lands badly on one ankle; it's not such a bad fall, as falls go, but it's bad enough that she isn't sure that she can get up and run again. She drops the jewel in the process, and looks around wildly to see where it's rolled.

"I don't know any spells!!"

"ANYTHING!"