16 [Voice]
[The voice that comes over the network is soft and hoarse, as if it hasn't been used in awhile. There's a distinct quiver in the tone, as if the person had been crying, but it was now under control... just barely.]
Where is Usagi and --
[And here, Rei's voice catches, but she presses onward, her tone adopting a new form of anger that hasn't been ( Read more... )
Where is Usagi and --
[And here, Rei's voice catches, but she presses onward, her tone adopting a new form of anger that hasn't been ( Read more... )
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When she does speak, she sounds tired.]
Were you hurt?
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I've been healed. Talk to Tsukino.
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[She's silent for a beat before switching on the video feed, keeping it trained above her shoulders. It's shaking a little bit; her hands are trembling.]
Bring me to the clinic.
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Fine.
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[A pause.]
And hurry. I'm not getting any younger, Toushirou.
[Stop looking like that, Hitsu, she's gonna think you died, too.]
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[And with that dry comment, he catches her energy signature and makes his way over. Just a little slower than max speed. She can wait a few seconds.]
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How long was I gone?
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Roughly six days.
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I can't feel them anymore, Toushirou.
[It's whispered.]
I don't feel anything. I let Usagi die and they took away the one useful thing I had in this stupid, stupid place, and I didn't even get the chance --
[And she kicks a small rock away from them, furious. Childish, maybe, but it makes her feel slightly better.]
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...You found someone else with similar abilities. He may be able to sense them in your stead.
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[Her fingers dig into her knees as she forces herself to stand. It takes a moment, but she does it, hands shaking as she smooths out her ruined shirt, cursing to herself as her palms come away bloody. For a moment, she looks helpless, like she doesn't know what to do with herself.]
They -- forced me -- to transform back. [And her tone is trembling; it's not the price, it's the sense of violation.] I didn't die this way. -- I don't even remember dying, I just remember the -- him, and Usagi, and he had her by the neck --
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[He says it for lack of anything else to say, but unlike with Tsukino he doesn't intend to keep talking about it. He's just putting it out there in case she doesn't realize it so that Hino won't have a heart attack when Tsukino talks about it.]
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He was right down the street from us the entire time. The entire time! And I didn't even notice. And now he's met Usagi and he can sense where Usagi is --
[She begins to stalk towards the clinic -- or where she thinks the clinic is, at any rate, but her rapid walk slows almost instantly at the stiffness of her joints, and the pain of her injuries. Cue frustrated hiss.]
And he took away the only thing that could've helped us here and he didn't even have the decency to stay alive long enough for me to wipe the smirk off of his face!
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He follows her silently. No point in trying to stop her. If she can walk, let her walk. If she wants to rant, let her rant. Experience tells him to keep him mouth shut about his own opinions unless absolutely necessary.]
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Which causes her to slow for a moment to look at the shinigami, temporarily distracted. The first thing he had said to her wasn't 'Took you long enough' or 'What did I tell you about Aizen?' or even 'You're alive'.
It was about Usagi. Which concerns her immediately.]
You told me to talk to Usagi. Why?
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