Behind the Sun [Coliseum/Open]

[fullmetal_smile]

The Coliseum seemed like the exact opposite of Traverse Town, bright hot sun instead of cool twilight. That warmth was good to feel, especially after so long in Traverse. He'd begun to think that the sun only existed in his imagination. It was good to feel it on his skin, warming the automail which leached so much heat from his body

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[fifteen_lost]

K was starting to walk a very fine line between being unfamiliar, and being just plain rude. Watching him for a moment, Ichigo showed his distate for such behavior all over his face, his features tightened with tart annoyance.

Maybe this was his first time stepping so far beyond his usual stomping grounds, but Ichigo truly began to wonder if everyone from different worlds were quite so strange. Visibly perturbed, Ichigo glared and let his lips lower into a simmering scowl. She was asking him if he was human? What kind of question was that? "Of course I'm a human, idiot. I know my hair's a little weird, but what do I look like? Some kind of animal?"

It was then that Ichigo paused in silence, his eyes widening strangely, as if he had just realized something. Something very important. He turned his head away for a moment, staring up at the sky with a pensive look locked in his eyes.

Where was his living body!?

In all the confusion, being thrown across time and space and waking up surrounded by so much sand and stone, he hadn't even thought about it. Technically, no, he wasn't human, being in his Shinigami state; the human part of him had been left in the safety of his home, before he left to fight the Heartless. In fact, if his world and everything in it had been destroyed, that means...his body was...

Silently, Ichigo swallowed hard, his expressions slipping into some sort of strange, almost comically pale and panicked shade once the true weight of the matter fell upon him. If his body was gone, he was dead! Stuck in his spiritual body now, there was nothing anchoring him to the mortal world anymore! Just when he thought things couldn't get any worse, suddenly realizing that he had died, and hadn't even noticed, was another blow below the belt.

"I'm...I'm..." he began, not really knowing how to answer anymore. What kind of reaction would being a 'shinigami' get him here? Looking a little brighter again, he scratched thoughtfully at the tip of his chin. "Huh. Well...I guess you could just say I'm a spirit."

[cafe_paradise]

Well, that would explain quite a bit. She nodded, knowing there was just something peculiar about the man. A spirit? Claudia had been studying all about spirits, gods, demons, and angels. She found none of this odd. On the contrary, she was quite fascinated.

Of course, that depended on what kind of spirit Ichigo was. Claudia wanted no dealings with a dark being, even though this man seemed hardly that sort. On the contrary, it looked oddly like he had just worked out exactly what he was in the last minute or so. Why else would he have to change his answer?

"A spirit. That is very interesting. What kind of spirit, exactly? An angel? A demon? Or someone in-between?" She asked again, wondering if Ichigo would be of any use to her.

This could be a positive turn of events indeed, depending on the answer she recieved.

[fullmetal_smile]

Ed shot a brief glare at K, realising what he'd probably been about to say. They weren't supposed to be alienating people. Although he had to admit, pooling resources wasn't such a bad idea.

He turned back to Claudia and narrowed his eyes sceptically at the sound of what they were talking about. He snorted in disbelief. "Spirits? Angels?" He rolled his eyes. "Don't be ridiculous. They don't exist." Yeah, he was probably treading on thin ice here, but really... they were all adults here.