bamfsecretary | thirtieth form; quiet talents reveal themselves (video/action for goldenrod/text)

//video/action

{When the feed clicks on, a few final-sounding notes of piano music rise up into the air, and we have a lovely view of... the carpet?!}

It is a beautiful piano, but...

-You cannot afford it, right?- {Nanao laughs mournfully, and the picture moves from staring at the carpet to one that shows Goldenrod's small but well-stocked music store. The salesman is leaning on a beautiful grand piano, on whose keys Nanao's gloved fingers still rest.}

You have that right. Apart from the price, I'm pretty sure that it would take up most of the space in the room I intend to put it in. {Reverently, she runs her fingers over the top of it, and sighs.} I don't suppose you have an upright, do you?

-You're in luck. We've just received one from Kanto, actually. Would you like to try it out?- {She nods, and he gestures over, the camera following the movement to reveal... a humble-looking polished wood upright piano. Nanao's voice sounds from out of frame.}

May I? {The salesman must have nodded, because she makes a delighted noise, and wheels over, carefully negotiating her way through the close-stacked piles of sheet music and recorders. She lifts the lid, and looks over her shoulder one last time, before she sets her fingers to the keys and begins to play. Tentative at first, she exhales and starts to lose herself in the music. There's no known notes to guide her, no carefully annotated sheet music, just herself and the piano and her memories.}

{The sheer sound cascades from her fingers out into the store, filling it with melody and joy and melancholy all at once, and it seems to be over all too soon, and she's left leaning over the keys, the last remnants of the sound fading slowly into the air, and she smiles.}

I'll take it.

//text, private to Hitsugaya Toushirou

I know Hyourinmaru vanished when Hinamori-san vanished, but Shiryuu needs a better trainer than I - and she's much calmer than Golduck-san.

{ooc: Feel free to bump into Nanao if you're in and around Goldenrod! You might even see her trundling through the streets of Goldenrod with a piano hovering behind her. There's an Alakazam sitting on top of the piano, which may or may not explain things.}

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{Indeed.}

Best laid plans of Rattata and men, or so the local version goes. The last thing I remember from my point in the timeline is that yourself, Matsumoto, Madarame, Abarai, and Ayasegawa were to head to the Living World to keep an eye on Karakura Town. I have no idea of what happens between then and the future, save what Matsumoto has told me over the 'Gear. I should be honest. I too have "gone home", except I experienced several months in a week, and my body was in a coma during that time. Apparently these comas are more common than they should be, but they seem to do no harm apart from leaving us with new memories.

{Possibly. Or he could just start exclaiming about "How clever Nanao-chan is!!" and then she'd have to hit him with a book again.}

{Nor this one, really. Five foot four and a bit inches isn't that much at all.}

[Well then. She'll need some heavy books if she doesn't have them already; Kyoraku's skill is remarkably thick....and she knows this already.

Not much, but still taller than Yachiru. That's gotta count for something.]

...well. That is something. I sort of suspected that Aizen would go after one of the Ryoka, but the girl - why? Apart from serving as effective bait for Kurosaki, I cannot see why she would be useful. Yes, I do. And that is a great relief to have actually experienced it, rather than simply hearing about it. I still hit him over the head after he recovered, however.

{How does levitating and then throwing the entire set of encyclopedias of the Three Worlds sound?

Yes... so now they can make excellent totem poles for Yachiru to climb. Happily, she tends to use taller people, like Ikkaku and Renji for such purposes.}

[Sounds like it would do some damage...though whether he'd care or not is up in the air.

Sadly, just about everyone is taller than her. A lot of people have become totem poles for her, and for some it's...very frustrating.]

...that is an incredibly useful tactical advantage to have. And getting him out of the way would prove to be very useful if his performance in Seireitei is any indication. You and half of Seireitei. That man seems to delight in getting into ridiculous situations, whether in battle or not.

{I think most people would sigh, and then keep out of her way for the next few days.}

{And now that we've done that height chart, we know that everyone is taller than her. Which means, of course, that no one is safe.}

[This guy certainly would; those books are heavy.

The only one safe, by virtue of height, is probably Nel in her child form. Probably.]

I noticed. ..ah. Is it really that noticeable?

{It is a very practical way to tone and strengthen one's arms, she's found.}

{...possibly.}

[Just about everyone has, really. Kurosaki's like a bull in a china shop.]

[Or the book throwing. Or the sake bottle destroying...sometimes it honestly feels like a wall's going to come down with all that.]

{Or a bear - just about everywhere he goes, he starts a fight just by his presence.}

. . .ah.

{There's not much she can say to that, really. Because it is entirely true.}

[That would be more lion-like, really....or one very angry bear. Very angry and very loud.]

[Because the number of times someone's been woken up by yelling in their little world is quite high. Even Mr. Insomniac here's been woken by that stuff.]

{Very angry bear!Kurosaki.... :Ua}

I will endeavour to remember that in future, Hitsugaya-san.

{She feels so bad now, she really does.}

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