[dream video]

[goneonenight]

[Yoruichi’s dream begins in a surprisingly innocuous fashion; she’s about six years old, with short, tousled hair and dirty bare feet, perched in the crook of a sturdy bough. It’s only about six feet off the ground, but it seems like a mighty height to her

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[ACTION]

[ocean_lightning]

[Ah, that salty tang of the sea!]

[It's been a long time since he's breathed it - a very long time indeed, and that was on a gray shore in the Living World many years ago. The memory remained strong with him, however, even after all these years - and so he recognizes it instantly, the moment he steps out onto the planked deck of the ship.]

[Ukitake pauses for a moment, just soaking it all in for a bit - the wheeling sunlight above, and the shifting ocean all around - and a happy, almost exalted elation comes with that moment. He's not sure why...but he doesn't want to ponder it for too long, and so he doesn't.]

[Instead he spots Yoruichi at the railing, so out of place in her little orange yukata and yet...belonging in this place far more than he, somehow. A bright beam slipping onto his features, however, Ukitake dismisses that odd, momentary notion - and, instead, he walks over to her side, hands in sleeves.]

Ah, careful now, Yoruichi-san! It wouldn't do at all if you fell out, you know!

Tell me, what can you see over there?

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[baby_flash]

[It seems only natural that Ukitake shows up, especially since she'd just seen Shunsui. Despite his responsibilities, he always had a moment to indulge a child, especially one with as many expectations looming over her as Yoruichi had.]

[She grins up him, then points down into the water. The sunlight reflects off the swells, and the water is a gorgeous blue-green, somehow clear all the way to the bottom.]

I see dolphins! And koi, too.

[Never mind that koi don't live in the ocean; trees don't grow out of the decks of ships, either.]

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[ocean_lightning]

Koi? Really, now...?

[Ukitake, upon reaching it, rests his elbows on the railing and peers down alongside her with great interest. Never mind all those discrepancies, indeed - trees on the decks and water like glass seems like a perfectly fine arrangement of things, at the moment, and questioning any of it feels like a silly notion.]

[Although...]

--My goodness, those are...pretty big...

[No really THOSE KOI ARE AWFULLY LARGE 8U Already they're matching the dolphins accompanying them down there, in terms of size - and even as they watch, the koi are getting bigger and bigger...growing...?]

[And then suddenly THEY START LEAPING OUT OF THE WATER - like the dolphins ought to be, except now that appears to be a bit backwards. Not to mention how the trajectory of those said leaps are truly enormous; several of the koi soar right over the top of the ship and splash back into the water on the opposite side in a great arc of flashing orange-gold scales, droplets of water pattering down from them like rain.]

[and it is amazing]

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[goneonenight]

[She gasps; the koi are impossibly vibrant against the blue sky, and she pushes back from the railing to turn and watch their flight.]

Ukitake-dono!

[Her face shines with delight, and her voice is full of a wonder she hasn't felt in centuries. There's the faintest feeling of something wrong; it's been a long time since she was so unabashedly open.]

[But the wonders of this place are far too great to be done in by logic, and so she ignores her unease, smiling and reaching a small hand up to catch a droplet of seawater as it falls from above. It lands in her palm, becoming a beautiful blue-green opal.]