Prompt #4: Compliments; May 2011. Rating: PG. A/N: Inspired by a passage ("Froech in the Dark Pool") from the eighth-century Irish text Táin Bó Fraích.
Compliments
It was Captain Hitsugaya who presented their group to the new shinigami, a small pale figure in his dark robes. "I think you all may have met one another before," said Hitsugaya delicately.
And afterwards, when Orihime would see any beautiful thing, she would think it had been more beautiful to see Ulquiorra standing there; his body whole and his skin no longer ashen but suffused with life, his hair black and full, his eyes as green as wet leaves, the pulse quickening in his neck as his mouth opened to speak, his bright sword shining in the autumn air.