01. [ video -- week 32, day 6 ]
[ Patient steel gazes down at the Hitomi, not with surprise of frustration, but calm understanding. He's obviously not very worried about this. Perhaps he should be, but to be worked up over something so simple... it never has been his style. ]
I see.
[ He closes his eyes and takes a slow breath. No, maybe he isn't quite happy to be looking at the device in his hands, but he says nothing and it never quite shows on his face. That would be pointless behavior. His thumb brushes across the screen of the Hitomi, steely eyes turning towards the distance.
He might be searching for something. He might even be counting, but it hardly matters to anyone who might be watching.
It's been seventeen months. How much have things changed? Its people, at the very least, are no longer what they were. He can't find those he was looking for. Without a trace of Renji or Rukia, Byakuya has no hopes that anyone he might prefer to be here are really here and so, that means only one thing.
He barely regards the Hitomi itself when he speaks. ]
Does the ryokan in Hisato still stand?
I see.
[ He closes his eyes and takes a slow breath. No, maybe he isn't quite happy to be looking at the device in his hands, but he says nothing and it never quite shows on his face. That would be pointless behavior. His thumb brushes across the screen of the Hitomi, steely eyes turning towards the distance.
He might be searching for something. He might even be counting, but it hardly matters to anyone who might be watching.
It's been seventeen months. How much have things changed? Its people, at the very least, are no longer what they were. He can't find those he was looking for. Without a trace of Renji or Rukia, Byakuya has no hopes that anyone he might prefer to be here are really here and so, that means only one thing.
He barely regards the Hitomi itself when he speaks. ]
Does the ryokan in Hisato still stand?