To Catch A Firefly
Chapter 4
"Only the dead have seen the end of war."
― Plato
XVI.
Most of the Espada regarded her with a morbid curiosity. Some even openly laughed at her predicament.
What they all saw was a little human girl that had ended up being trapped by fate. A whim of their master and a useless child.
Orihime did not miss the way both the Sexta and Quinto Espada looked her. As if she was just a piece of meat they could use and then discard.
That is until she managed to restore the blue-haired man's missing arm and they finally registered the danger she truly represented.
XVII.
The power to reject phenomena that had already occurred was put into her fragile hands.
Aizen explained everything to her. Explained that fate had no power over her and that only she herself could fight god's will.
Orihime realized that those powers were the only thing that made her worth keeping. The only reason for why her soulmate had been interested in her to begin with.
She was glad to have them.
XVIII.
Ulquiorra Cifer was assigned to her as her keeper. A guardian of sorts that would take care of Orihime during her stay in Las Noches.
He listened to what his orders entailed with a blank face, only turning towards her once his master dismissed them. ''Come, woman.''
Orihime supposed that it sounded nicer than 'trash'.
XIX.
Her new room was located a floor below the Espada's own chambers. It had a bed, a couch and a small table. Just like the walls they were all colored white.
The adjoining bathroom was the same. Only white could be found there as well.
Orihime knew that the emerald green eyes of her soul mate would now be the only things that colored her otherwise bleak world.
XX.
Las Noches was divided into many different parts. Each Espada received one tower for themselves and their underlings.
Ulquiorra had none of those.
Besides the few servants that scurried around his tower and kept it clean, there was no one inside her soul mate's so called 'home'.
Surrounded by those stark white walls, Orihime had never felt so lonely before.