[accidental video post]

[favorthebold]

[The feed is switched on by a random crackling of electricity, the origin of which is soon revealed. The place is Unohana's clinic, one of the rooms; the video shows Saul sitting next to a bed, tattered and wounded, his head in his hands. He doesn't look percisely sad or broken, more tired - and focusd. There's a very faint buzz in the air around him, like static electricity, giving the air in the room a soft eerie low.

In the bed lies Carmen's body - if only she'd been breathing, she'd have looked asleep. But of course, she isn't.

Saul speaks very quietly.]

Spirits of this land, powers of this world... I've kept true. I have stayed my blade when you wished me to, I have always spoken in your favor. My fortune is yours to decide.

We've only just begun to understand each other. Don't take her... not yet.

[The prayer spoken, he lets his hands drop to his sides, and leans back in the chair, eyes closed, calm now.]

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[favorthebold.livejournal.com]

Possibly. I don't actually know what might be in my head.

That is Carmen Sandieo, dead in the inner city invasion.

[kannon-sama.livejournal.com]

... You don't know what's in your head ?

Guess she had it coming.

[favorthebold.livejournal.com]

Not in such picturesque detail... thouth it does sound like a memory of mine.

... I suppos she did, in a sense. Much as any warrior does.

[kannon-sama.livejournal.com]

You were quite the little brat, as I remember.

Warrior, huh ?

[favorthebold.livejournal.com]

I was a solider, doma, and a good one.

That she is.

[kannon-sama.livejournal.com]

Soldier, huh ?

Good soldiers usually make bad warriors.

[favorthebold.livejournal.com]

Do you think so?

[kannon-sama.livejournal.com]

I've known enough of both to know so.

Good soldiers are good because they can follow orders. Good warriors are good because they can think for themselves. The two rarely go together.

[favorthebold.livejournal.com]

An interesting distinction. I suppose a man should strive to be both.

[kannon-sama.livejournal.com]

A man should strive to be what he can, and reach for the unattainable.

[favorthebold.livejournal.com]

Perfectly put, doma, I salute you.

[kannon-sama.livejournal.com]

Don't thank me, man. It's sort of my turf, after all.

Hell, some people would say I'm just doing my job.

[favorthebold.livejournal.com]

How percisely do you mean? Are you in the business of war?

[kannon-sama.livejournal.com]

Nope, I'm in the business of saying deep things that humans then can misinterpret.

Or, you know, guiding humankind, that kind of stuff.

[favorthebold.livejournal.com]

A religious figure, then.

[kannon-sama.livejournal.com]

You could say that.