No Swansong For Ravens [2000]

Her eyes had been markedly absent as she'd flitted past the pages of a dozen nondescript reports. But this one, this one had arrested her attention, and for a brief, absurd moment, she had related to her subordinate, whose deceased sibling had thrust into inaction.

Unfortunately, pity had always done little to belay her hand.

Lending credence to the belief that the 3rd and 4th seats were decidedly unwholesome ranks among the division (both had gone unoccupied for protracted spans of time, and both shouldered crippling losses of personnel), Kurisuna scowled grimly and produced the appropriate form to be circulated across administrative channels: Tenba Genjitsu would be downgraded where all recruits freshly began, so highly esteemed were the seats of the Third Division.