Firm tigress, Shattered Boulderfield [Jitter]

Vanessa looked at the mountain before her. She cursed to herself at having been given such a thankless task. Strapped to her back was a large needle, and a cord of spiritual thread. She had been told that somewhere over the pass here, there was a 'hole'. The soshi had told her rather more firmly than was necessary that she had to leave the area if a hollow came through the hole as shinigami and plus-souls alike had been hollowfying at an alarming rate. Nessa had scoffed; she wasn't a coward, and she wasn't afraid of any measly hollows. She wandered up the path, curious about the ruined foundations of some ancient structure. Humans were so fleeting, like mayflies. She looked critically at her own fingers as she walked- the fingernails of the gigai were perfectly buffed and polished and while she adored it and found them perfectly pretty, it made her slightly annoyed that her nails were usually blunt and ragged from being inside her glove-like shikai.

She plucked her way upwards quickly enough, as she was nimble and light-footed. The mountain crested on a kind of plateau but she didn't go there- she instead followed a valley up, beating through undergrowth until she came to a cliff-face with a waterfall tumbling down it, presumably from glacial melt at the top. With trees and boulders of scree-slope origin around, Nessa looked for the tell-tale sign and found it. Unlike in Soul Society, the holes in the human world lead straight into the garganta- no dangai. Her ability to sense reiatsu was virtually non-existent, her admittedly limited experience having been virtually expunged when she gained her shikai. Despite being gigai-clad, she would still be giving off a chaotic reading of unmodulated reiatsu. She looked at the hole and shuddered- it gave her the creeps. Best to sew it up as fast as possible. She hefted the needle out of its rudimentary scabbard and began threading the strange twine through it, as she had been taught. She remembered the incantation but it had been hard as the soshi as well as Kíla and Thíla had a tendency to recite incantations in a sing-song manner, and the Soshi especially had a weird accent.