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The shadow mudkip blinked up at Shadow, faintly confused. "That doesn't sound right, what you said about hurting people. You have lots of friends." Shadow's question, though, was even more puzzling. "I don't really know where I was. Inside Nate, I guess. Where do you go when Dave can't see you?"

The shadow mudkip flinched himself when Shadow pulled his paw away. "Sorry," he squeaked. "It's nice that you want to help. But I don't think anybody can. And maybe I don't seem so bad now, but remember, I hurt a lot of people back when we fought the Shadow Machine. Or *you*, that one night. I...

Letting someone else do the thinking, huh? He could kind of understand that, given what it sounded like Seyka wasn't saying. "Yeah, I know what you mean," Nate said. "Doesn't sound like good times, though. The whole sacrifice thing. Must have been nice, coming here and getting a break. Who...

"Oh," the shadow mudkip said, the yellow light in his eyes flickering. "I guess if it helps for him to think you're somebody else... But that doesn't make sense. He actually has a nice shadow, he should be glad--" The mightyena was reaching for him. The shadow mudkip jerked sideways, one hand...

"I did those things, though," the mudkip said. "I was with Nate the entire time. And I never would have said sorry... if you didn't come over and try to talk to me." He sighed. "I'm a coward. But... I don't understand. What do you mean, Dave pretends you're somebody else? He thinks you're not a...

"I guess they will." The shadow mudkip shifted again. The puddle around him was spreading, slowly. "But Nate's lucky. He likes where he used to be better than here. Nobody's dead. And he'll be glad if I disappear. Why wouldn't he? I'm everything bad about him." The shadow mudkip unstuck one of...

The shadow mudkip shuddered again. "I heard about that," he said, shifting in place. Goo squelched faintly as he did so. "I know that you care about her a lot. Which makes it worse that I..." He closed his eyes again, then tried to wipe his tears away on his shoulder. They stuck tenaciously to...

The shadow mudkip opened his eyes, blinking away tears. "I deserved it," he said softly. "It wouldn't be a good idea to be my friend." The mudkip looked briefly back at the table he'd come from, where Nate was now sitting quietly, looking vaguely as though he had a stomachache. "I hope Mia and...

"Sorry..." The shadow mudkip shuddered, oily tears leaking from under his closed lids. "Sorry for being mean to you. For saying things that weren't true about you, and attacking you, and trying to make you mad. Sorry for calling you a shitty mightyena and making fun of you for wanting to, to..."...

The shadow mudkip cringed. "Yes," he said. "Sorry."

The shadow mudkip stopped breathing when Dave's shadow stared right at him. He squeezed his eyes shut instinctively, but the mightyena would have seen that, wouldn't he? Stupid. He should have been more careful. The mudkip wanted to put his hands over his face, but all that would do was glue his...

"Your brother, huh?" Nate said. "How'd you end up in that situation, huh? With him telling you what to do and all?" Rocky was shifting uncomfortably, but he perked up a little bit at Seyka's comment about legends. "Well, some legends are about people who used to be real, right? Or were supposed...

The X-Eye Cauldron was loud and boisterous today--plenty of Destiny Village had turned out to celebrate their world not getting plunged into eternal misery, and many of its residents had even participated in the final battle, in small ways or large. Drinks were discounted, and the air was filled...

Well, that... certainly was a new one. Rocky gave Nate a look of alarm, but Nate tried not to get too worked up about it. Seyka had always been kind of a weird guy. Who knew how literal he was being here? "A made-up god, huh? Is that like one of the legends here, you know, Arceus, Mew, all...

Nate blinked. Well, that was one hell of a shrug-off. "Kill someone, huh? What, are you a soldier back home or something?" He'd never really gotten a real handle on the skarmory's backstory, only the sense that it probably wasn't all that happy. So what else was new, with Team Spectrum? Still...

"That's true," Rocky said. "Who knows? Maybe the sand could even jump up and attack!" He gave it a suspicious look as though, now that he'd said it, it must be going to happen. Nate laughed. "Oh, yeah, nothing much. All that shit with the moon, I guess, and the null universe and everything...

"Of course!" Rocky said, giggling while he bounded up to the skarmory. Nate followed behind, much more slowly as always. "Hey," he said. "Been a while." It really had, hadn't it? It felt like the last time he'd seen the skarmory around was back in the nightmare forest, which... ah. Yeah. That...

"It's kind of weird that we end up on the beach all the time," Rocky said. "You never go to the beach in your world." "Yeah. I dunno. Must be a water-type thing or something." Lugia and Meringue had long since flown off to do lugia things somewhere else. More pokémon were starting to appear...

The house was quiet when Nate and Rocky returned, but Nate wasn't taking any chances. He poked his head into the bedroom, made sure to check the fridge. Inevitably Gengar was lurking around here somewhere, waiting for the worst possible moment to possible moment to pop up, but at least there...

Nate isn't sure why Diyem seems to be treating the chance to hang out in his voidlands with Toast and Inan as a threat, but does reluctantly accept that he doesn't have time for that. He thanks Diyem and heads back to his house, ignoring Rocky's pointed looks all the while. It seems as though...