Oh, there was a smile. Keman grinned at his slightly soggy new friend. "You're a lot better at it than I am, at least?" He took a sip from his now mostly-empty juice box. There was barely a mouthful of juice left. "I think it's got to be some sort of test," he joked, "in which case I failed it miserably."

Well, there were other things he could've really failed at. At least it was just juice.

"Oh," he said after a minute, "I think you mentioned that Rukia's from the same place as you? Does that mean you're also a...Shiny...no, that's no it...Shinigami?" He'd mangled the pronunciation somewhat, but it wasn't as bad as it could have been.