A City of Light?! [Lianne, Stella]

Ugh, what a bummer. When she was told to shuffle off to the City of Lights, she expected someplace more... Glittery! Exciting! Kinda like how Vegas was! But nooo, no lights here.. Then again, it is too early for those to be on. It was interesting in other ways, like, wow the floor was cold! And white! Very white, everything was white! She couldn't stop herself from touching the material some, trying to divine what it could be made out of...

Seemed more like a quartz or marble than an opal or moonstone or even limestone.. How the heck do Quincy make this stuff? They were such weird guys... Wait she had to focus that's right!

Going about the streets, people towered over her small form, and even seemed unbothered for the most part; at worst they intentionally avoided her. Scribbling away in her note, there was all sorts of details she was getting, being here! But how many were useful to Ms. Aldrovandi? Well, she supposed getting a proper layout of the place and maybe cracking some Vandenreich goons open would do the trick!

Her excited little feet carried her about, looking for some Quincy to hassle; hey if they live here they must at least KNOW something about the Vandenreich, right?! She had a few attempts at questioning people, coming across as little and friendly of course, couldn't badger them terribly much or else they'd run away like little bugs! But... Nobody seemed all that eager to talk. The bright Arrancar looked a bit sullen after each try, but shaking it off and going for another one.

This time seemed to be some wide eyed girl, maybe she'd be more up to talk to her!

"Hiii! Excuse meee!!" Her little self ran up to her, waving her hand frantically, her Estigma flashing dully with excitement in the daylight, "I'm a journalism student doing a report on the lives in The City of Lights, could I ask ya a few questions?"

Urgh, she just moved here?! Unlucky! She probably doesn't know as much as she'd want to.. No no, calm down Li-li, expecting to get all the info you want outta one person was a pipe dream. This was actually pretty lucky - she looked pretty young and not very situated, maybe her lips would be a bit looser with whatever she could've caught ear of!

"So how do you feel bout the city? Are you happy? Do you feel safe?" She asked the questions in an almost rapid-fire manner, hopping a little every half second with her friendly disposition doing the work of coming across as perfectly harmless, "There was a big ol' Arrancar attack last year, wasn't there?"

Aw man she was THAT new?! And didn't seem too noticing of world events or too torn up by them, ugh picking apart this haystack for something interesting was gonna be rough. Either way, she quickly wrote down whatever information she could get, her expression uncompromising and full of light.

"Sooo, what about the Vandenreich? What do you think of them? Do you think they're capable of taking on this new world threat the bigg'ol'hole's presenting? What have you heard from other people about it? Would you say the public reception's pretty confident?"

Rapid pen clicking laid with her dropped hand with the absolute lack of real information to put down, a growingly impatient smile on her bright features as she periodically performed a small bounce as she nodded along. She felt like she was gonna tear out of her own skin with how ruthlessly plain and empty this girl was. Fine, if she didn't have anything to squeal, she'd make her own fun here.

"Doesn't feel real awful not knowing anything?" A cut into the girl's speech, her tone sounded far less friendly and even a little deeper, before returning to it's normal pitch and speed, "Like, i'd think members of the Vandenreich would at least have a lay of the land they're working with and stuff! Some idea of what they're throwing themselves into! Gosh, the idea that some nobody could slip into the ranks with not a clue of what they're getting into's just... Yikes, yknow?"

Feigned surprise and shock slipped into her body language as she spoke, a side glance with a wide smile given to the poor interviewee, "It just sounds pretty bad on the lot of them! They've already embarassed themselves quite a bit with not being able to defend themselves and needing the silly ol' Gotei to fight their battles for em! But I guess incompetence attracts incompetence..."

With a shrug of her shoulders, she'd look back to Stella with an exaggerated kneel back, seeing the girl upside down from her incredibly flexible position ,"But it's not like you're a member, right? I gotta be mistaken! You're just some know-nothing civvy I roped in by mistake!"