[The person who sat on it now... They had accepted the rule of the Spirit King for centuries - complacency born out of trust in the order of things. But she of all people should have thought to question more than that - 'the order of things' was not necessarily a fair or just order. Aizen had left them with more to clean up than just the dead, it seemed.
The soft laugh is a welcome distraction from those rather unhappy thoughts, and she gives Shunsui a small, sidelong grin.]
My life would be too depressing if I wasn't an optimist, I think.
[Though even that joke is a little bleak, for her. Too much looking mortality in the face, these last few weeks - there have been close calls before, for both of them. It was part of being a soldier for centuries. But this one was closer than all of those had been.
She realizes how off that sounded, tries to cover it with a smile.]
As if Retsu would let you do anything right now - she's probably annoyed you're even sitting up.
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Date: 2011-03-30 09:32 pm (UTC)The soft laugh is a welcome distraction from those rather unhappy thoughts, and she gives Shunsui a small, sidelong grin.]
My life would be too depressing if I wasn't an optimist, I think.
[Though even that joke is a little bleak, for her. Too much looking mortality in the face, these last few weeks - there have been close calls before, for both of them. It was part of being a soldier for centuries. But this one was closer than all of those had been.
She realizes how off that sounded, tries to cover it with a smile.]
As if Retsu would let you do anything right now - she's probably annoyed you're even sitting up.