Day 36: Intercom, Dawn

[damned_intercom]

Dawn broke over the Institute with all of its usual glory, lighting up the half-clouded sky beyond the mountains with shades of pink and orange. One would find it hard to believe all the horror that Nightshift brought when looking upon a sight as welcoming and relieving as daytime at Landel's, though the intercom's jingle and the voice that came

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The naughty boy ends up in solitary.

[stray_shinigami]

As usual, he woke up in his bed, nothing gained, nothing accomplished for the night. He was used to it. But as he opened his eyes, the profound sense of something wrong shuddered through him. He sat up in his bed, looking wildly around, trying to place his finger on what could be so fundamentally wrong that it left his stomach churning.

His eyes went wide.

Gone. That comforting, beloved spiritual presence that was Rukia, that was always there no matter what, was goneA flash of anger, fear, despair, and a thousand other emotions ran through him as he sat, frozen, on his bed. It was too much, too overwhelming. After a confused, incoherent moment, his mind simply went blank, as did his expression