Siren's Pull

[She won't bother filtering this from the Espada. They doubtless already know the information she's about to relay, and if any try to snipe at her, she's more than capable of handling it.]

[Retsu is prim and composed as always, giving little indication of what may be going on beneath the surface.]

To anyone it may concern, Kuchiki Byakuya has been returned home by the Core. If there are any loose ends that need to be attended in regard to this, please let me know and I will do what I can to help.

[Ugh. Those earthquakes last night. RUDE. There's little damage to the apartment, but poor Vivian the chair is rather agitated and crocheting at an almost frantic pace in an effort to soothe her nerves.

[Nevertheless, Retsu is smiling. Perhaps smiling a little too much, in that vaguely dangerous way of hers.] Little celebrations are lost so easily among all the chaos. And yet sometimes, when you look, you can see them. Such as the family that braved last evening's earthquakes to visit their ailing father in the hospital for his birthday. By all rights, they've little to celebrate at such a time, and yet the day is acknowledged. Because it means something to the person concerned.

Let us not be so continually drowned in the negatives that we forget that sometimes there are other things that deserve just as much acknowledgment.

[You know. Like birthdays. Like hers. Which is today. This is a hint for all of you people who have reason to know what an important day this is: do not forget about her. She has Wrath. (And yes, Byakuya, she has already received some of your gifts. You are off the hook, you lucky boy.)]