At that, Rukia couldn't help but manage a small smile, licking her lip subtly and ducking her head down. While she wasn't sure that she was ready to spread her hypotheses through the whole of the city, she did trust that this man had a true desire to escape the claws of whatever held them in the city.

And maybe that meant that he deserved enough to know the best way to slip through the cracks. Slowly, everyone could. One by one.

"I'm glad I could help," she says with a polite nod of her head, sliding one hand up her arm until it tucks next to her elbow. "And I have somewhere to be, so... I think I have to end this early. My apologies."