The Shinigami and the Hedgewitch (PSL)

[spirit_touched]

Once at a young age, Ana desperately wanted to see Japan. He coursins had been lucky enough to go on holiday and on their return had made Ana positively green with envy with their tales of strange places and customs. She'd been fascinated by the unknown, even before she could walk.

Which explained her current path in life as a Hedgewitch, someone that walked the boundries between the physical and the spiritual.  It took a certain kind of reckless courage to walk into a place where everything was older, stronger and stranger than you and she had it in spades and a certain kind of determination to deal wuith the rest, the keeping of oaths, healing, the constant study and endless list of things to do. It took her to strange places this life. She didn't expect Japan to be one of them.

She wasn't sure what the name of the town was, having made her way on foot as per directions from a fellow worker that lived in Ana's hometown once upon a time. She had called, panicked, asking for help. 'It's too big!' She said.

So she went. Coming to a stop infront of the quiet apartment building, very small by her standards, Ana closed her eyes and centered herself. Opening her senses to the world beyond she gasped and jerked back from the building. Yuki's wards had been torn apart, the boundries placed their by loving hands decimated.

"No." Ana bolted forward, heading for the stairs to Yuki's apartment. In her panic, she never noticed the residual ghostly deeling of death.

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[sucksatkidou]

Renji ignored everything around him as he rushed to the location where the Hollow was. Below on the streets, people went about their daily business, completely unaware of the danger looming over a little apartment complex, and of the Shinigami easily stepping on the air to get there.

But he's worried he'll be too late, that this soul or whatever the Hollow is hunting will have already been devoured. He's always worried to discover that fate and hates when it comes true. However, when he gets to the building, nothing else matters except that he take care of the Hollow in order to save another soul and, as he must, send that soul to Soul Society.

Passing through a window closest to the Hollow, he immediately goes into fighting mode, drawing his zanpakutou and laying eyes on the creature. He raises his weapon, jumps at the Hollow, and brings down the blade, slicing cleanly through the bone of the mask. By the time he hit the floor, the Hollow disappears completely, a roar fading away into nothing.

He doesn't notice the woman making her way to the same room.