[The video comes on to a view of an empty room. One that looks as if it were occupied very recently.

There's only silence for several moments before a voice can be heard quietly, offscreen.]

...Taichou...

[There's a hollow, empty note to his voice in the single word. Tiredness and resignation in one.]

Shit.[It's mirrored in his face when it ( Read more... )

[ The Hitomi seems to have turned on in the middle of being soundly throttled by Rukia, whose huge violet eyes are glaring daggers at the offending device. She shakes it and brings a fist down on the top of it, looking more and more frustrated with each passing second.]

Renji! Why is it making this awful noise![Renji, for his own part, is ( Read more... )

What does family mean to you?

[The feed comes on at an odd angle, as if the Hitomi was turned on from having fallen awkwardly, perhaps from a pocket. The lower half of Ed's torso is all that is visible of him, but that is quite literally overshadowed by a...very unusual sight. There is a very large stone obelisk in the shape of a human hand, and from the edge of the "fingers" ( Read more... )

( It sings in your blood )

( There's no vacancy in paradise )

( In the pain there is healing )

( He keeps a piece of her heart )

[Midnight, the very beginning of the sixth day in the thirteenth week, every Hitomi begins to broadcast. Those who are sleeping will find themselves jolted suddenly from sleep; those who are distracted will suddenly find their attention drawn to the device ( Read more... )

The newer residents might not know this, but some time back, Iruka arranged a picnic for those of us trapped here. It was a wonderful opportunity to meet people -- it was before the ryokan or the natives returned, and people were quite spread out ( Read more... )