The creature keeps carrying Senshi to destinations unknown as it feels his body go limp. As Senshi slips out of the waking world, a vision intrudes his mind. He's walking through the dark, on a road which disappears behind him, and leads nowhere, only existing beneath his feet. Ahead of himself, he can see a juicy, red apple... but before he can reach to take a bite, some hideous black wyrm breaks through the surface of the apple. As he watches, the thing eats through the apple bite by bite, untill none of it is left and the wyrm coils around itself, gnawing its own tail in frustration.

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[Indeterminate time later; Fortress on Kunlun mountains]

Senshi is shocked awake by a bucketful of cold water splashing against his face. "Wakey wakey, Sleeping Beauty! Prince Charming has business with you! Don't force me to get in there and kiss you!"

The voice belongs to an unfamiliar man in black biker jacket. His face is obscured by white bandages. Senshi is looking at him through heavy iron bars. While he was unconscious, Senshi was placed in a small stone cell in the basement of some stone building, and the sun is shining into his eyes from a small window near the ceiling. He's lying on a simple wooden bunk. Someone's taken off his shirt and bandaged his wounds. The bandages are wrapped tight and feel weirdly clingy - Senshi might not know it, but they're of the same sort used to aid a Hollow turning into Arrancar.

His Zanpakuto is nowhere in sight.