As the groups drew closer to the foothills, they could soon recognize, high up on the rocky walls stretching overhead, paths, ladders, terraces and even windows of dwellings built into the hillsides. Here and there pokémon could be seen moving about on their own personal errands, oblivious to the approaching outsiders--though they probably wouldn't remain that way for long. The crystals grew dense around the village, sprouting from the sides of buildings and even jutting up out of thoroughfares, so that passing pokémon were forced to go out of their way to avoid them.
They eventually reach the city. Nori slowly looks up at it. It was way worse over here. "I think we found the source," he notes. "Or a big target of whoever or whatever caused this. Get ready for any kind of welcome." Hopefully they could fight here if they had to.
The Demon scrapes a paw. "What's with this place? Do they think they're manh or something?" she dismisses the city. Burrows and caves were enough shelter for everything she knew, and the wilderness was their home. No matter. They'd find out soon enough exactly what they were dealing with.
That’s hardly efficient,” he said, watching the residents of this new town try and struggle to go about their days with crystalized miasma in their way. As much as he wanted to say he didn’t know their frustration, at least on a metaphorical level, he’d be lying if he did.
To his surprise and quiet relief, his traveling companion was none other than his fellow suit enthusiast and his prickly vulpix friend.
“Why don’t we try our luck with the locals?” he suggested, gesturing before him. “Perhaps if they’re not as skittish, they’ll have some insight.”
As they approached the rocky foothills, he could see many Pokémon moving around the burrows and improvised homes they seemed to have carved into the hillside.
Something in the scenery, however, left Raiki quite puzzled.
« It must have taken some time to build all this... so can they really be the owners of the footprints we saw before? » he wondered outloud to both his companions and their respective Pokémon.
But the fact that they hadn't done anything about the ominous and possibly toxic crystals growing everywhere also seemed to point towards them not having been long... the ones that passed through Meloetta's garden.
Well, no better way to find out than ask directly. He calmly approached the nearest group of Pokémon, clearing his throat.
« Excuse me. How long have you been living here? Have you just recently moved here, perhaps?»
He asked.
Inari observed the Pokémon in silence, flicking his ears in discomfort at the Pokémon. Yeah, he was of the same opinion as Demon, here.
But on the other hand, there didn't seem to be any humans in this realm... which was something he quite liked.
He turned towards both Demon and Bellamy, studying them in silence for a short moment.
« ... what's so great about a human trainer, anyway? What do you gain by staying with them?» he mumbles, pointing with one tail each towards Nori and Corbeau.
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