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Rukia had barely registered what her captain had said, only able to maintain this drop in temperature for a few minutes before having to carefully raise her own back to warmth. 

It wasn't her bankaii... yet. She was close though! She could feel it, each time she dove deeper, going lower in temperature, it was getting closer! What was getting harder was coming back out of it. She should bring it up to her captain eventually... preferably before she was trapped in the frozen tundra of her own making.

She shivered, feeling herself nearly back to her normal body temperature. There was a bit of frostbite on her fingertips that burned and needed to be treated. But Rukia dismissed it as a concern for later, when she had escorted her captain to his next meeting. Speaking of...

the fall of the house of usher sentence prompts

He had called the odds, calculated the stakes. He had checked every box that he could think of, in his search for assurance. For unrefusable proof that his analysis had been fair and just-- and still the Spider had come up short, prone to doubts and uncertainties that threatened to cloud his judgement, tempt him to make the wrong decision.

"I can't answer that." The truth escapes before he has the chance to recall it, an admittance of information that sees his broad posture deflate, shoulders sinking with the departure of surety. "As long as we make sure this world doesn't collapse..." Perishing, because he took his eyes off the prize, spread himself too thin, instead of leveraging the help of others. Aid, like that offered freely, by the man opposite him.

The Fae Queen had just finished putting her tack away when his voice came out of nowhere and startled her; making her drop those leather saddlebags brimming with books. She whirled on him and huffed; blushing. Well, at least he hadn't been too terribly loud about it! Still, she's frowning some before settling her hands on her hips. "So what if I did? You had been saying we were going to town for the past three days then left me unsupervised today--so I went! I don't need a knight all the time, you know...."

What if he just makes food for everyone working there-

Mornings weren't his favorite to start with, but he was even more reluctant to leave Jushiro's bed. Alas, his bladder didn't really tend to leave that up to him, so he'd grudgingly pulled himself from the bed to go relieve that particular pressure. He'd already been headed back to his lover's side when the white haired man spoke.

A smile settled over Shunsui's lips at the soft words and the large man carefully pushed the blankets towards his lover before he laid down. He tugged the blankets just as carefully over himself, making sure not to let too much cold in while he pressed himself close to Jushiro. "Where else would I be going, my heart?"

(( Existential crisis starters || @shieldofwaves said: [ “Sometimes my body just doesn’t feel real.” ]

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