WASPANDR

"Proud I am, proud I was, of what we protected." A low rumble leaves his throat, she is devoid of emotion and he is not. It simmers and boils in every step he takes. His eyes finally break from her to look to the side, cast to stare at out the window of the room which they reside. The training area is empty tonight, and he doesn't know if she intended to find him here yet she did.

"I'll change it. Or I'll tear it down."

It's an inflammatory statement, the boils from lips that are venomous. Not towards her, never towards her, towards the injustice to which they both serve.

"They all deserve better, than this. The Soul Society, cannot, persist like this. You know it, I know it." So what is he going to do about it? Oh, he'll tell her.

"A people's revolution. A people's war. Not with swords, and guns, but with words and actions. A war against the system of entropy, and stagnation, we've found ourselves in."

How very Communist of him, much to his chagrin. But the people must be moblized, they must uproot this system. Soifon is as much a victim, as Hayden was. Noble obligations, produced weapons of war. Yoruichi. Isshin. Shunsui.

Soifon.

His eyes shift to her once more.

"I wish, you felt what I feel right now. I wish, I could ignite your soul, the way mines is."

Hayden’s searing gaze was met only with slated grays, the aftermath of volcanic ashes; cool, sharp, and as unmoving as the stone they resembled. Just like the stone too, the appearance of strength was just that. A facade. There were many layers to it and together it held its shape but only together.

There was a time, not too long ago, that Soifon would’ve taken his words as treason. She’d have her blade to his throat, or Suzumebachi embedded in his heart by the time he finished that third remark. It was a dangerous notion. That was what she’d always been taught and individuals such as Aizen and the like proved as much.

That was then, however.

“Change has never done me any favors.” Her tone held no more fervor than before, though the words did. It was no secret that she was object to change in any form. She hated it and rightfully so but it was never hers to control, try as she might. What Hayden insinuated, if he truly meant it, to enact with words and actions, was just the same.

“So, what now? You plan to petition for these changes? Talk off the ears of every Noble that’s willing to lend it? Take up a political position?” None of those had ever worked before and she’d be hard-pressed to be believed they would now. Even with Hayden at the helm, if anything, it might backfire on him worse than his predecessors of vicissitude.

"You always think you're the smartest one in the room." - To Kisuke of course :3

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"..."

He opens his mouth to speak, but then there's a pregnant pause.

Urahara Kisuke's features, bright like an artificial sun, slowly sink and dim in the wake of Soi Fon's assertion. What can possibly be said?

In time, an answer presents itself.

Her gaze would relax as his answer, denoting her satisfaction with it, though she did lean away when he tried to lean in.

Once they started to dance, Soifon's blinked. Her singing paused and she hesistated to start again, let alone join them in the choreography.

"To die... to sleep."

"The rest is silence."

"It is as easy as lying."

"Brevity is the soul of wit."

"Good-night, sweet prince."

"Now cracks a noble heart…"

"Be all my sins remembered."

"What piece of work is a man…"

"I must be cruel only to be kind."

"Listen to many, speak to a few."

"It is not, nor it cannot, come to good."

"There’s a divinity that shapes our ends."

"To be, or not to be: that is the question."

"This above all: to thine own self be true."

"One may smile, and smile, and be a villain."

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks."

"My words fly up, my thoughts remain below."

"Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind."

"Thus conscience does make cowards of us all."

"Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love."

"But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue."

"Madness in great ones must not unwatched go."

"The Devil has power to assume a pleasing shape."

"Though this be madness, yet there is method in it."

"If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone."

"Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may be."

"God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another."

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

"When sorrows come, they come not single spies. But in battalions!"

"In my heart there was a kind of fighting that would not let me sleep."

"What should such fellows as I do, crawling between earth and heaven?"

"To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand."

"There are more things in Heaven and Earth, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."