The reply came tired, but caustic: "That quaver is most irritating."
She took his hand. "My lord," she said, kissing it. "My lord. This one has always--"
"And that will not be necessary." Byakuya closed his eyes. "Your presence has always sufficed."
And, for the second time in her life, his wife began to cry.
* * *
In the years after it became well known-- for she was famous in her history; famously alley-gotten, famously humble, and famously determined despite it all. The Scarlet Captain. The Captain the Sixth. A little woman who was lost in the folds of a haori slightly too large for her, easily dwarfed by most of her subordinates and almost all of her peers. Still, she never went unnoticed, her voice never unheard. For despite everything she honoured her husband's dying wish: Kuchiki Hisana was the head of her household, and all that it owned. It was sizable and, let it be said, she managed it better than anyone would have ever guessed.
Kuchiki Byakuya had never been the type to marry a fool.
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"My lord," she whispered.
The reply came tired, but caustic: "That quaver is most irritating."
She took his hand. "My lord," she said, kissing it. "My lord. This one has always--"
"And that will not be necessary." Byakuya closed his eyes. "Your presence has always sufficed."
And, for the second time in her life, his wife began to cry.
* * *
In the years after it became well known-- for she was famous in her history; famously alley-gotten, famously humble, and famously determined despite it all. The Scarlet Captain. The Captain the Sixth. A little woman who was lost in the folds of a haori slightly too large for her, easily dwarfed by most of her subordinates and almost all of her peers. Still, she never went unnoticed, her voice never unheard. For despite everything she honoured her husband's dying wish: Kuchiki Hisana was the head of her household, and all that it owned. It was sizable and, let it be said, she managed it better than anyone would have ever guessed.
Kuchiki Byakuya had never been the type to marry a fool.