[Sure, it sucks to remember that he can't sense any of this himself, but hearing about it is so infinitely better than being shut out of anything to do with it that it doesn't matter. He knew why Chad and Inoue avoided the subject around him, and he knew Ishida was more than a match for Karakura's hollows, so conversations about spiritual goings-on were few and far between. There wasn't really any need to talk about it. It hadn't been important.

Maybe it's weird for him to be glad that being here meant they had to talk about this kind of thing, but the fact is, some of the hardest moments over the last two years had been the ones where Soul Society had felt more like a dream than reality.]

Well, we're not gonna figure anything out by standing here talking about it. I'm gonna have a look around. Everyone I've run into so far arrived at the same time we did, so they don't know much, but maybe we'll be able to find someone who's been here longer. Maybe whoever built all this is still around here somewhere. I bet they'd know where we are.