004 :: \voice\ filtered;
--you bastard --
[the rest of the words are choked off. as something roars in the background, something definitely inhuman and definitely angry. there's a whistle of violently displaced air as something swipes through the space where hiyori used to be, then the shriek and crash of a zanpakuto swiping back, missing, and biting deep enough into the side of a building that it shatters the wall. hiyori grunts, and then the communicator fills with the sounds of sandals slapping against the ground: hiyori, running away. eventually the footfalls cease, to be replaced for a while with careful, labored breathing that is nearly swallowed by the surrounding silence.]
[a breath.]
--lemme ask you somethin', Inquisitor: are we any good to you if we're dead?
[she pauses, deceptively calm, then--]
'CAUSE YOU SURE AIN'T DOIN' TOO GOOD AT THIS "PROTECTION" BULLSHIT YOU WERE SPEWING EARLIER! WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS CRAP ON MY NECK FOR IF ALL IT'S GONNA DO IS MAKE IT HARDER TO SURVIVE THAN IT WAS WHEN I WAS DEAD?
[the rest of the words are choked off. as something roars in the background, something definitely inhuman and definitely angry. there's a whistle of violently displaced air as something swipes through the space where hiyori used to be, then the shriek and crash of a zanpakuto swiping back, missing, and biting deep enough into the side of a building that it shatters the wall. hiyori grunts, and then the communicator fills with the sounds of sandals slapping against the ground: hiyori, running away. eventually the footfalls cease, to be replaced for a while with careful, labored breathing that is nearly swallowed by the surrounding silence.]
[a breath.]
--lemme ask you somethin', Inquisitor: are we any good to you if we're dead?
[she pauses, deceptively calm, then--]
'CAUSE YOU SURE AIN'T DOIN' TOO GOOD AT THIS "PROTECTION" BULLSHIT YOU WERE SPEWING EARLIER! WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS CRAP ON MY NECK FOR IF ALL IT'S GONNA DO IS MAKE IT HARDER TO SURVIVE THAN IT WAS WHEN I WAS DEAD?