Lone Wolf Woof Hoof (Ichigo/Lilynette)

Hueco Mundo. Home of the ......Sand.

It was always depressing, returning to this place from her ventures into Soul Society......and the World of the Living....she had even poked her nose around the Demon world a little now and then. But still she felt herself compelle to search the sand. And that was why Lilynette sat there atop a rocky outcrop, lightly itching the mask fragment around her left eye as her Wolves scoured the surrounding area. Her own soul gently scattered through the area through small tongues of flame. The usual sweeps she did of the area. And as usually......she hoped to find that familiar echo of a soul, and expected to just find hollows... maybe a rare random arrancar.

But this time she didn't JUST find as random signature. She found something ....familiar....but not familiar. But DEFINITELY a signature that made her perk up.

No....no surely not. Her nose wrinkled, wondering if this was a trick, and promptly her wolves closed in on the target itself, Lilynette herself furrowing her brows in the direction of the signature itself, already pulling those shreds back in and relying on her Wolves for the time being as her Pack would slowly come into view of the person. And once she felt the feedback from her wolves senses, she almost froze up. A reiatsu she'd felt in the past:
Ichigo Kurosaki.

The wolves themselves spotted the figure off in the distance, forming a loose formation as they sat on their haunches, watching him just off of his horizon, their flame-like pelts flickering as they all kept an eye on the familiar, yet unfamiliar silhouette as Lily moved in to join them. The head of the pack raising her head and howling out into the distance to catch his attention.
Lily wasn't generally in the habit of looking for old Arrancar, mainly because they were usually huge shitbags. But ....well....this was just too bizarre not to investigate.

He was just.....walking. Aimlessly in the desert. Which, fair enough, was often what most hollows did when they were brought here, but at the very least he seemed to have gathered enough self-awareness and cognizance to break his mask. A flicker of movement and the wolves closed in, moving to walk alongside the Arrancar from a distance, making note that he just seemed to......keep on moving. That was certainly strange behavior. And it wasn't long before Lilynette herself showed up in the dull crackle of a Sonido. A sight which was, in all honestly, meaningless to Ichigo Kurosaki, who likely had never even met her outside of 'hey, that small child arrancar sure looks dead over there' in the midst of the winter war.

All the same, Lilynette furrowed her brow as she paused, moving somewhat in the man's path, but not exactly. No matter how sure of her own power she was: Ichigo Kurosaki, arrancar or not, was not a force she felt inclined to try and stop outright. "Fuck, it really IS you. You look..... healthier..." She murmured. Probably a unique way to remember a man. The only interaction she had WAS Ulquiorra's shared memory of Yammy beating the fucking dogshit out of this man, and then Grimmjow's mission. So .....at the very least, he DID seem a lot more.....lucid and unbeaten than she remembered him.

Her wolves formed a loose circle around the both of them. One of those reishi wolves in particular trotting right up to the man and sniffing at his hand.

Her face screwed up into a mask of sheer incredulity. "what do you mean 'what do I want'? What the heck happened to you?! I mean...yea you obviously somehow were turned into a hollow and then an arrancar, but .....like...DUDE!" She barked out, gesturing up and down at his ....everything! It was definitely strange to see him like this, not only that but what was even MORE bizarre was that he just seemed to be .....walking. She didn't know the man, but based on what she'd seen and heard, he was a kid with purpose. The kinda kid who refused to sit still. And he was.....what just....WALKING? She turned, looking in the direction he'd been heading and peering, knowing that there was about jack all in that direction for a long ways.

She turned back, refocusing on the taller arrancar and folding her arms, trying to think. "Where are you even going? Are you lost or somethin?" She added on, now trying to surmise where he possibly might be heading. She calmed herself down, offloading that anxiety into her wolves. Those shreds of her soul starting to move around more animatedly, the one that had been nosing at Ichigo's hand now trotting in circles around him in a mild orbit as they went, Lily even forced to walk alongside him as he refused to stop moving.

Her brows raised a bit at that and she stuck her tongue out a bit at that. "Me? Not really. I was kinda down for the count when you showed up. I think Starrk mentioned he saw you briefly though..." She murmured passively, rubbing her chin for just a moment before she perked up a bit. He was .....looking for something?

She couldn't help but put on a bit of a wry smile. "Tch, as someone who has spent the last four hundred years combing just about every inch of this place lemme tell ya: Finding shit aint easy. Any place in particular you're lookin to go? I seen just about everything around these parts." She offered, as promptly she was smiling, and those wolves grew a bit more energetic. So he DID have a purpose. And one that was VERY close to her own! Her own internal gears were already turning in her head. There was NOBODY more sturdy than Kurosaki! If she could have picked ANYONE for her 'welcome back Starrk' pack, Ichigo could just about be the most reliable member she could get!

If she could help him find ....whatever it was he was looking for... Yes yes this was all coming together. She'd been searching for other lost, stray souls, and this was it! All gift wrapped and everything! Lilynette you genius! She smiled, pleased with herself as she was now matching his stride, and the pack was spreading out some, fanning out over the dunes as they went.

Ichigo didn't know it yet, but he absoLUTELY was gonna be part of her pack. Every pack needed a grumpy loner who didn't want to be there and yet still somehow stayed in! It was just like....the law of the universe!

Lily raised her brow a little at that and was pleased to see that he didn't seem to just be striding out a head, but seemed to settle into a steady pace after a slight adjustment, as if accounting for her presence! SCORE! She paused....rubbing her chin thoughtfully as she took a moment to think over such a thing. Where few went huh..... That actually honestly sounded like her. She had, in her search for Starrk, decided to try and look through more remote areas believing that he would choose seclusion rather than risk killing others by proximity. So she had actually been to a lot of rather remote areas.

"I've been looking for someone for a long time. Actually took some time in the past four hundred years to go looking through some of the more.....remote areas of Hueco Mundo actually. But well, I was looking for someone whose spiritual pressure I recognized. I didn't really pay much attention to anything else. Soooo it's actually quite possible that I've BEEN to wherever the thing you're looking for may have been." She reasoned thoughtfully, glancing at him for a moment and tapping her chin. Thinking.

Ichigo was......Strong.....after all. Like really strong. Surely he could withstand her Howl right?

"You know, I actually have a way I could just....Show you some of the places I've been. You're like....REALLY sturdy after all. It's usually dangerous for weaklings, but you should be fine, if you wanna give it a try. I have the ability to sortof....synch up our souls, and link us up. Of course weaker hollows will straight up die, but well, you're not a weak hollow. You could see if any of the locations fits where you think you're looking, and then I can take you to where I remember it being. Certainly beats just random wandering, right?" She reasoned.

It was a little strange honestly. Her endless scouring the desert, her own natural special qualities. It was ....kinda auspicious that she kinda.....was exactly the kinda individual he could benefit from traveling with. And it felt ....nice....that... not that she was EVER going to give up on Starrk but. Her.....endless wandering .... might actually have not been in immediate vain.