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Post by Moriko Koboyashi on May 23, 2016 8:03:41 GMT
Moriko Koboyashi was a woman of many masks. To the First Division she was the Dark Mistress of Paperwork, a whirlwind of energy and screeching that could turn the average shinigami’s life into a hell of red tape or a heaven of express queues. To the rest of noble society she was the young daughter of the head of the Koboyashi branch of the Shiori, perhaps a bit naive and perhaps a bit awkward still, but still pretty average all in all. To those she employs she’s a fierce taskmaster, expecting only the best out of them but just as loyal to them in return. For her father she wears a stony mask. Utterly in control of herself and never letting any of her emotions through.
That mask was the closest she had to her last mask, the mask she wears when she was all alone.
The Palace of Battle’s Dawn was once home to a powerful warlord who reigned over a large section of what was now West Rukongai in the era before the Gotei 13. He ruled as a great and terrible God-king over the weaker spirits around him, though Mori’s current working theory was that he was some sort of proto-shinigami with spiritual powers but not the zanpakuto, training and culture of the Shinigami that came later. Upon his death the facility was largely left alone. It was commonly called cursed and over the centuries it was left for time to take its due.
Mori knew that there were more things under heaven and earth than just the shinigami and hollows that most were familiar with. She had heard the stories of Mimihagi in the Eastern Rukongai, and her own martial art that she’d taken the first step on…
No! No! Enough time for that later. For now… slowly the gates of the ruined palace swing open in front of her.
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Post by Moriko Koboyashi on May 23, 2016 8:26:47 GMT
Once…
This was the height of splendor.
Servants, courtiers, nobles of wealth and taste and soldiers strong in body and steel.
“Look on my works ye mighty, and despair indeed…” Moriko muttered to herself as she cast a long gaze across the ruined courtyard. Nature had reclaimed much of it. Grass through the flagstones while moss grew up around the old and rotten wooden pillars. If there was any gold for decorations, or decorative metal in general it had long been stripped by grave robbers whose greed outweighed their fear of the curse. Even some animals must have managed to find a way past the walls judging by some of the tracks she saw.
It was little importance though. Her goal was located far deeper within the fallen palace.
The inside was just as ruined as the courtyard. Large holes in the roof let in great beams of sunlight while a steep layer of dust clung to every surface. She followed the spiraling hallways and crumbling passageways as they all seemed to flow into one singular spot.
It was a great room! Tall and large enough to fit hundreds. She couldn’t tell if it was meant to be a throne room or a shrine, though knowing this place’s previous inhabitant it could very well have been both. It looked like it held up better to the ravage of time as well. There were no overt holes in the ceiling and even the banners hanging from the ceiling remained. True, they were old and moth eaten but they still remained.
Moriko Koboyashi © All rights reserved, 2015-2016.
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