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The same way I do. The same way any of us do.

[Her tone is still neutral. It's a fight to keep it that way.]

We're all trapped here, but that's not the real curse.

Then why do you speak as if I didn't?

[Raven is an expert at keeping her tone neutral when she's just boiling underneath. She see right through it.]

No. The curse is that this world, as chaotic and irrational as it is, still feels real. And thus we all end up forgetting we were never supposed to be here in the first place.

[She spoke that way because Rei doesn't often share how she feels. But Rei ignores the question, for now, to focus on the real problem.]

It feels real because it is real.

But we'll forget about it all once we're back home. And it will be as if we never were gone. What kind of reality is that?

One I'm not going to give up without a fight.

You don't want to be sent back anymore then?

I have a duty to perform there. I have to be sent home.

But I refuse to give up my memories.

I see. You're already planning to go to the Inner City, to try and face the Animus again.

I was planning that as soon as we left.

Than you might want to know about something I learnt from the Animus.

... what did you learn from them?

They said if someone were able to see them, that person wouldn't be able to come back here.

...Of course we have no way to know whether or not this is true. [It's not as if the Animus can be trusted but still.] I thought I'd tell you.

... they were there, in the Inner City.

I know. They said that too. But you didn't actually see them, did you?

I didn't have to.

[She felt them.]

They're spirits. There's nothing to see.

They're everywhere. Sometimes I can sense their presence here too. At the beginning and at the end of events.

[There's something odd, in Rei's expression, at Raven's statement.]

Sounds about right.

[Raven notices and frowns a bit.]

What is it?

It's nothing.

[Rei used to have that skill, to sense the spirits around her. And then Aizen Sousuke took his sword to her.]

... have you told Toushirou, that you can do that?

[Raven can tell it's not "nothing" but she senses that it's painful memories for Rei. So she won't push any further.]

[She's a bit startled by her question.] Tell him what?

That you can sense the spirits here.

Hitsugaya knows that I can sense people's auras from a far, though not from as far as he can it seems. [Except in the case for the mind bond she has with Horst but nobody knows about this except them.] He also knows that I can tell what the nature of their auras is.

...As for the Animus, you're the first person I've told that to.

Tell him.

[He'll know why Rei asked her to, at any rate.]

...Right. I will.

He'll understand.

[And, finally, a small smile.]

It might even make his day.

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