[A Starlight celebration party is hardly the place to be pulling out a knife of any description, whether it be a gift or not and so Sephiroth takes care to put the lid back on the small box before approaching Rukia.
He raises the box in his grip slightly in response to her small nod of a greeting, before tilting his chin up to her in acknowledgment. A small gesture but it's clear what he's referring to at least.]
Sergeant. [He replies since she'd addressed him the same, but an informal smile is pulling at the corners of his mouth before long; it's nice to be gifted at all, but Rukia has clearly put some appropriate thought into it.]
I-
[Really? Was he really going to start by telling her that she needn't have bothered?]
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He raises the box in his grip slightly in response to her small nod of a greeting, before tilting his chin up to her in acknowledgment. A small gesture but it's clear what he's referring to at least.]
Sergeant. [He replies since she'd addressed him the same, but an informal smile is pulling at the corners of his mouth before long; it's nice to be gifted at all, but Rukia has clearly put some appropriate thought into it.]
I-
[Really? Was he really going to start by telling her that she needn't have bothered?]
-thank you.