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"Oh, that's too bad..." Buffet nodded sadly. "I'm sorry if that upset you." "For someone with so much authority," Owen said, "I don't think she needs much pity." His tone could match Icetales' temperature. "You're fine without us, if that's how you're going to treat him." He jerked his head in...

And a storm indeed came, in the form of a sudden intensifying of winds. Air swirled and several small waterspouts rose from the sea like little serpents before dying away to even harsher winds. It cut through them, leaving a rough mist and turbulent waves. Brisa would hear, suddenly, a battle...

"I guess..." Cal sighed. She must have told, and been told, the same things by countless others, but she still couldn't shake the feeling of not belonging regardless. She didn't know what to make of it... "I guess I don't like the weird looks I get sometimes, just, you know, I get why... but it...

Cal stared at Raven, then gestured at herself, her Core, her tail, everything about her that was just a mockery of a Charizard. "I'm not normal. I'm some... twisted hybrid of a Void Shadow, an Eternatus egg, and memories that aren't even mine. Like. I'm as far removed from normal as I can get."

The sticks slipped through and remained on that opposite side. The Zoroark silently took them and added them to his own, but his lip quivered a little and he turned away. "Yeah," Soda said. "Okay. Sure. Do what you want..." His claws were squeezing at nothing and now he had his whole face...

"Y-yeah." Soda looked vulnerable again and he wasn't able to hide it. He was small, in a cell, alone and accompanied only by the one person who he could truly connect to anymore, doomed to return to his own crappy life and, even now, separated by the walls of the cell. Soda was alone in the end...

Cal nodded. "Yeah." She finished her meal, the last of the food drifting to her Core. "Maybe I can get to know what a normal life is for once..."

"Hey," Owen said firmly. "We'll be out of your aether as soon as we can. Icetales is looking for his mother. We're busy saving another world, and Icetales has been a great help, but during our down-time we have extra things that we can do to ease our minds." Buffet gave Owen an odd look. That...

"S..." And to this, he paused, and there was this brief, panicked look in his eyes the same way one looked when they realized they'd forgotten their keys at home. He did not, in fact, remember.

"Bah, years, maybe a decade or two at this point," Soda said with a dismissive wave. "Flesh, we picked him up a few years ago. Maybe longer. Look, you have any idea how hard it is to keep track of time when you don't even have the same planet to track? What season was it on the world you came...

"It seems to be a local astral plane," Buffet said. "Don't stray too far, now. It's a real hassle to recover foreign souls that stray too far from me." Owen nodded. "If you went too deep into my world's, your body just became a shapeless ember. Hard to distinguish unless you call out..." "I...

"The Tree, huh?" Cal frowned, looking south as if she'd be able to see it. "I guess it's a nice place when it's not, you know, the center of a bunch of stuff we're dealing with right now..."

Soda sighed, looking mildly annoyed. "It's just how things work. You can't kill people once they're dead, and Overworld spirits drift around and find other realities to live in, sometimes ones that let them live new lives. It's not like a living world where if a society don't like someone you...

"That should be just fine," Buffet said. "Departed souls are sometimes more difficult to find. Sometimes, they have passed into the Overworld and could be somewhere other than the world they'd come from. If that happens, I could try using someone related as a stepping stone still in your...

"I don't know," Cal said. "I feel like ever since the whole egg thing, maybe. Or maybe a little before that. You sure nothing's really bugging you?"

"Owen, you're familiar with flight through Spirits' Edge at this point, are you not?" The Charizard nodded. "It's not too hard anymore. I'll follow your lead." "Good. Then if that's the case, why don't you give Icetales a ride?" Buffet then nodded at Koa. "I'll show you the way. Sunny will...

"Nah. Dunno what it was, actually. Might've been something stronger, or weaker, or just a bunch of circumstances that added up to some normal guy getting way too much power."

"What's going on with you, anyway?" Cal asked, leaning forward. "You've been acting all weird, even before the moon shit..."

"Goddamn, girl, it doesn't have to be one or the other," Cal said with an exasperated sigh. "It's not, go on solo missions or do nothing. You can make a coordinated and planned team, y'know?"

Puff frowned, listening in. "...He's a defeatist one, isn't he?" he commented. "Those Shadows might have a stronger hold on him that he'll admit..." He sighed, shrugging. Nothing he could do about it, he supposed. He started to head back to town. <><><>