<span style="font-style: italic">Right, time to explain myself,</span>Doce thought, revisiting her planned excuse. "Well, I--" but she was interrupted as Rukia had gotten sidetracked on the matter of Frahlah's spiritual pressure. She wanted to explain that Jokers, and Frahlah in particular, were different from other races in the "soul" department. But before she knew it, the conversation had changed to giving up memories of who they really were... supposedly in order to better utilize their new abilities.<span style="font-style: italic">Madness!</span>Doce thought.<span style="font-style: italic">I'm an introspect! Memories are the one thing I would never give up! Besides, I'm figuring out Frahlah's powers well; they come with the body, after all.</span>But still, there seemed no opportunity to respond to the situation. Another interruption came in the form of some ill boy.<br/><br/>It sounded like he was attacked by a guy in white. Doce's first thought was that maybe an Espada got to him, but she heard others say it was an.. Arrancar.. or something. She had no idea what that meant, but Rukia seemed to recognize the name they gave this man, so he must have been something from Bleach.<span style="font-style: italic">Damn,</span>she thought,<span style="font-style: italic">Everything from Bleach is insanely overpowered.</span>Whatever the case, it seemed the boy would live, and she wondered if now would be a good time to speak her mind. The mood had gotten heavier so she came closer to the group and presented it in a less happily-oblivious way.<br/><br/>"I intend to hold on to my true self for the entire time until I am home again," she said bluntly, in a way that really wasn't very Doce, but she didn't need to be Doce right now. This was method acting. "And I should to be advising you not to do something so rash yet either. Spiritual pressure is soul power, or something like this, yes?" She spread her arms open as she continued, "Well this person who I have become had his soul removed from his body and sealed in a foreign vessel--for certain reasons. I would to be surprised if you<span style="font-style: italic">could</span>sense my spiritual pressure accurately."<br/><br/>Now she sighed a little and smiled at the group. "We were not well met before. I am Doce, and this," she gestured to her new body, "is Frahlah Tahmir; a Joker." She looked at Rukia, "I did not defeat the Espada who captured me. I was brought to a fortress of some kind and locked up. However, Frahlah's powers are such that escaping was easy like pie." She paused then, almost for dramatic effect. "Before I escaped, though I was overhearing conversations about something within those walls which is the reason for our being this way--and it can turn us back! I came looking for you all, hoping you would help me to gain access to this thing; as you are aware there are strong adversaries in that place, and to go back alone would be suicide for myself.... So, who is this Sayzel man?"