They burned "to listen, to execute, and to want nothing" as an emblem across Rukei's heart. Orders sit as a dictator over Rukei's head. The very will and intentions of someone else run through Rukei's veins. Still, cut Rukei, and you will know she bleeds- with color hotter, hungrier, so much brighter than red- "give me liberty or give me death". If she must bear the story of a child taught to die, so be it, so be it. --- Disclaimer: Yoshihiro Togashi owns HUNTER x HUNTER. (Pairings are inconclusive)