Garian and Kentaro sat in their usual places near the fire, Kentaro seated on a cushion while Garian looked down on his audience from one of his large chairs which the giant of a Shinigami filled quite easily. He even made the chair appear small. The fireplace, logs and coals burning in the hearth cast the room in a dim light, while extending the shadows of the two men within onto the far wall. Garian’s shadow was as long and large as he and gave the impression of a large lion seated behind him due to the lion-like set of his face and hair. Their training hadn’t picked up yet this morning, but it soon would. But before that was the continuation of Garian’s story, which he took up were he left off.