"Many people where I'm from assume the same," she says, looking forward with a slight, sheepish smile. "There are people who expect us to be monsters, spirits... almost no one expects for us to look more or less human. No one expects for us to have been human at one point." Rukia glances over with a slightly amused shrug.

"But keeping death a mystery is probably better than not."

Turning to face forward again, Rukia bites down briefly on her lower lip. "Anyway, normally, people shouldn't be able to see me. But I have a... synthetic body, I guess you could say? It's pretty realistic, but this isn't the body I was born in or anything," she says, one hand releasing her bag for Rukia to poke briefly at her cheek, showing off the human-like give. "When I'm not wearing this, only those who have died or the very spiritually attuned who can see me."