Erich is unsurprised when he arrives near Ishida’s home the next evening to find the teen stubbornly awake despite the hour. It’s tempting to simply turn around and leave without approaching him, but Erich resists. He’s already been seen and introduced himself and he doubts that Ishida will write it off as a strange dream. …
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Erich watches over the young Kurosaki every night, examining the state of the boy’s soul for any hint of change. It’s safe to say he’s grown attached; with every nightmare he eats he understands more about the boy and his life, and Erich— Erich can’t help but admire the boy. He’s so young, so determined …
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They begin that night. Erich devours the boy’s first nightmare and Alexis pulls free a fragment of the hoshi no tama, no bigger than a grain of rice. She holds it out to him, perched on a claw, and Erich breaks off a fragment of his Self to wrap around the divine gift. A baku’s …
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The week passes both too slow and too fast. Erich and Alexis continue their rounds. The teens continue their restless, broken sleep. The man continues to watch. But there are other visitors. Kitsune linger just within his senses, their curiosity piqued by his visit to their kami. Sometimes he even catches sight of a snow-white …
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It repeats. Night after night they bound between the teens, working to give each as much sleep as possible. Night after night Erich worries over the first boy, the teen with fire-orange hair and torn soul. He and Alexis do what they can, press fragments of their Selves against his soul like makeshift bandages, but …
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His wandering is not due to starvation. Humans live so crowded together, packed in tiny homes stacked one atop the next, that he could glut himself on nightmares every night and never eat them all. He bounds from home to home, following the murmured cries of ‘baku-san, baku-san’ to those who want their dreams eaten, …
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The courtyard is cramped, jammed full with every active knight, mage, and prominent fighter in the castle. It’s enough to make Uryuu uncomfortable, standing shoulder to shoulder with people he neither likes nor trusts, but there’s nothing for it. At least his tormentors usually leave him be during gatherings like this, not after the first …
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“Shiro? Are you blushing again?” Ichigo asks incredulously. Shiro groans and flops down into his seat, burying his face in his hands. “Shaddup!” Ishida Uryuu’s voice continues to run through his mind, filled with honest amusement and interest. To know that someone beyond his brothers has seen and appreciated his attempts to drive off his …
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The instant Kisuke hears footsteps approaching his lab, he carefully sets aside the dagger he’s been experimenting on and turns around. He has his suspicions about this upcoming visit, and braces himself to face an infuriated Ishida. (Braces himself to lose the young man’s friendship.) (He may have kept his promise to the letter, but …
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Section Warnings: Bullying – name calling, implications of sexual favors for privileges, hints of potential steep escalation in the near future (Things get lighter after this part, though.) Ichigo holds his magic in close, exactly how Hat’n’Clogs taught him years ago, and moves with careful steps through the knights’ hall. He’s invisible, but neither intangible …
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Shiro carefully closes the door to Hat’n’Clogs’ lab behind him and strides away, keeping to the back hallways and secret passages as he does. He hadn’t known what to expect when Urahara had given him a ‘trust me’ look and asked him to conceal himself, but… Finding out there is rot in the knighthood was …
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Inspired by this prompt from Corvidprompts. Uryuu slinks into Urahara’s hidden lab and drops into a seat with a silent sigh, exhausted and depressed and one intolerant word from going rogue. Instead, he soaks up the quiet of the gently-lit room and tries to relax, setting his glasses aside and draping himself over the table …
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