[Icy blue eyes focus intently on the screen before them, lips pressed into a hard, thin line. The face may look familiar to some, though a year or two older than remembered-- humans mature so much faster than the Shinigami, after all. The video catches the sound of typing, text accompanying the image; he seems unaware he's being recorded as he
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They're not here right now -- they're in your world now.
You're in Adstringendum.
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My world. [The living world, he assumes she means.]
I've never heard of Adstringendum. [Which, to him, seems most likely to be a world like the Spirit Realm, or Hell, or Hueco Mundo... except he doesn't know it. Yet.]
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My name's Hino Rei. I know some of the people from your world -- Hitsugaya Toushirou, Hinamori Momo, Ukitake Jyuushirou, Unohana Retsu, Kuchiki Rukia, Urahara Kisuke --
[She seems to want to add one more, but pauses -- because if this young man is a shinigami, then Ulquiorra may not be a kind name to hear.]
They're all here, too.
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[The first he's ever heard of this sort of thing. But it isn't something he'd put past Kurotsuchi-- or Urahara, for that matter.]
And there are, supposedly, multiple realities...
This sounds like something from one of Inoue-san's science fiction novels.
[His expression tightens somewhat at the list of names, if that's possible, his expression growing a little colder. It's good to know Urahara's here. The rest-- well, he prefers to avoid the Shinigami, if he can.]
And they'll corroborate your claims.
Tell me more about the Animus-- I assume if they're in control here, they're what's keeping us from returning to our native realities.
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Hmmmm.]
They will. -- and the Animus are the spirits in charge. They can control how we feel, think -- what we look like -- at a whim. But they can only do it once every other week, at the most. The last event they threw was flooding this place with rainbow sheep but they've done a lot more dangerous.
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It seems I have my work cut out for me.
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[There's something of a flat tone, there. Don't diss her shinigami friends, okay. She'd be dead eighteen times over without them.]
Including me.
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And what does 'everyone' consist of?
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Rule number one of this place -- it isn't what everyone consists of -- it's who they are and what they do.
Some of those people are the shinigami -- some Espada -- I've worked to fight against the Animus -- along with exorcists, priests, and shinobi. All different, but all have worked to take control of this place.
You aren't home anymore. You better get used to redefining your alliances.
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The enemy of my enemy. I'm not unfamiliar with it, either in theory or in practice. That does not mean, however, that I have to like what it is I'm working alongside, or, for that matter, that I have to trust them.
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You don't have to like it, but that's the reality of this world.
[But then, her expression softens slightly.]
It's a lot to take in and absorb -- I know. My first day here was horrible, but you have people from your world here -- even if you aren't that happy to see them. That's more than most people have upon arrival. That's more than I had.
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Save Urahara-san, it doesn't matter to me at all that any of them are here, save to the extent to which they get in my way.
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I don't think Toushirou is going to care enough to get in your way.
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I'm guessing you don't want to stay in Unohana-san's clinic.
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No. That won't be necessary.
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