VIDEO and TEXT. post-siren.

[zealouspeter]

[the image snaps into focus relatively fast, clear and centered on a table, a heat lamp and tiny winged reptile. the tiny winged reptile's curled up under the heat lamp on top of the table, seemingly unfettered and contentedly asleep

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[icy_heavens]

[Yeah, it's a text reply, but Hitsugaya is just blinking at the little dragon. Just so you know. He totally doesn't just like dragons. Shut up.]

... Is that a miniature dragon?

[icy_heavens]

[Hitsugaya has no idea he's speaking to someone young himself. Ah, the joys of text. Oh, geez, and then Shiroe would get interested in all the nifty ice powers if he annoyed Hitsugaya in person, wouldn't he?]

He came to me first. He's a partner more than anything.

[zealouspeter]

[Shiroe would be interested on principle, s'true.]

That's even more impressive, then. What cause did he want to help with?

[icy_heavens]

[This line of questioning is starting to get weird to him. What task? It's a zanpakutou. There's really only one task.] It's what zanpakutou spirits do. They choose who they'll listen to and form a bond with them in order to . . .

Why are you asking all this, anyway?

[zealouspeter]

It's curious! I didn't know it was a spirit, either. Does that mean all dragons have died out, on your world?

[icy_heavens]

Being a spirit doesn't mean that it's dead. [Curioser and curioser, isn't it, Shiroe?]

[zealouspeter]

That's what I've always heard. [very.]

How doesn't it?

[icy_heavens]

Maybe that's how it works in other worlds. It's not really the same way in mine.

Some beings are just born that way. [As far as he knows, anyway.]

[zealouspeter]

... Born as a spirit...

That's strange.

[no, really.] Wouldn't they be considered alive, then?

[icy_heavens]

That's what I said, isn't it? The spirits aren't dead.

[My goodness, has he managed to confuse Shiroe??]

[zealouspeter]

Then why are they called spirits? What are dead souls called?