0.hidden track: the rotator slips

[rotwood_reaper]

[OOM, arguably pre-canon: If fate is a millstone, we are the ones that make it turn.]

The door opens to admit a dark-haired slip of a girl in black. From the look of her, this may not be where she was expecting to find herself. Somebody may want to clear that up.

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[heyfootballhead.livejournal.com]

"I think dead people live here," Arnold says with a shrug. "It's just a thing, I guess. But if you bring outside business in you get thrown in the cells!"

Which sounds exciting to a nine-year-old, but isn't nearly so much so in practice.

[rotwood_reaper]

Rukia's not interested in being imprisoned either. She'd prefer to find some excuse to avoid such a thing.
Little does she know, it's going to happen eventually anyway.
"...if the dead here have lives of their own, as they would in Soul Society, I guess you're in no danger."

[heyfootballhead.livejournal.com]

"I've never been in danger here," Arnold says innocently. "It's a pretty calm place."

'Pretty calm' might be a little bit of an exaggeration.