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[i_love_taiyaki]

[The feed is an EXTREME CLOSE-UP on Renji's eye as he peers into the lens, then pulls the device back and tilts it on its side. It's pretty obvious he doesn't really know what he's doing with this technology nonsense. He definitely looks a bit worse for wear--he's bleeding visibly and appears to have scorch marks all over his face and upper torso

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[sewing_prince]

[Just sort of blinks at the Forge. Especially since Renji said his name.]

You're not in Hueco Mundo, any more, Abarai, and as far as I can sense, that Espada is not here either.

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[i_love_taiyaki]

Ah-- Ishida! [He wasn't concerned at all. Have folded arms and a harrumph now.] Oh, good, you didn't manage to get yourself killed after all.

I've kinda started figuring that out now, but... Well, it's just as well the Octava ain't here. [pause.] What about the others? [He doesn't specify if he means other Espada or other teammates--let's see which issue Ishida tackles first.]

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[sewing_prince]

If you mean of those who went to Hueco Mundo? Then it's Kuchiki-san, Kurosaki, you and myself. If you mean everyone else... there does seem to be a fair bit of Shinigami running around.

[Yeah, let's not talk about the managing to get yourself killed part. Because he doesn't really want to think about getting run through with Zangetsu.]

[i_love_taiyaki]

[So no Sado and no Inoue, huh? Well, for now four out of six isn't bad, whatever this place is.]

Yeah, I heard Ukitake-taichou's here, and I've talked with... [Rangiku, Byakuya, and... Shiba-san? Shiba...-fukutaichou? What the hell does he even call him?] a couple other people I know.

So how long have you been in this place, then?

[XD Renji doesn't even know about that, so no worries on accidentally reminding him about it.]

[sewing_prince]

I've been here about half a month or so.

[Well, there's the tentacles too. Wait to Renji hears about THAT.]

[i_love_taiyaki]

Oh, so you're still kinda new at this too, huh.

[Nooo, don't scar him!]

[sewing_prince]

Yes, apparently so.

[Oh, it'll come up sometime. Probably when someone spikes his drink and gets him drunk.]

[i_love_taiyaki]

Well, this kind'a shit's easier to swallow when you're not figuring everything out all by yourself, so I guess it's good to see your ugly mug. I think I'm meeting up with Rukia in a bit, but ah... Well, if you need a hand with anything, give a holler.

[And that's the only time he's gonna say it.]

[sewing_prince]

[Steels his expression, but don't think he wasn't shocked inside to hear that. Sure, he knows that they're all friends, so to speak, but he's used to them operating under a "we don't talk about it" rule, so it's strange to hear it.]

[Nods his understanding, because he can't allow it to go unmentioned.]

Abarai, you mentioned Grantz... what was happening before you here?

[Because he has an idea, but he wants to make sure he was right.]

[i_love_taiyaki]

[Well now that he knows that people arrive here from all over and any time, this question doesn't seem so bizarre...]

I'd just blown Grantz up with kidou so you could do... whatever you were gonna do. [He rubs his neck awkwardly.] So when I woke up here I figured I'd knocked myself out too and Grantz had set up another crazy funhouse for us in the interval.

[sewing_prince]

Sprenger.

I don't suppose you wish to know what happened next, do you?