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"Apparently they don't want us to take up more rooms than needed, so they assigned me to sleep at this room... you guys' room."

Cabot nervously approached the door to his new room. While he wanted to talk things over with Nip, he certainly hadn't expected to get the opportunity by being assigned to the same room as him. Not only that, but this was Celeste's room as well, the other member of his team he had said some...

"Thanks! Best of luck to you as well," Cabot replied, before letting out a small chuckle. "Especially you, Meringue." The Cranidos gave the two a parting wave, before turning and setting off back to town. <><><>

Cabot smiled and wagged his tail a little. Lugia really was a wise Pokémon. "Alright, I think I'll try talking to it then once I get back to the guild," he said.

"I mean... I know how much trouble it's caused you," Cabot said. "I wouldn't wanna try to befriend it if either of you are bothered by it, especially since I'm still not sure how I feel about this myself."

Cabot blinked. "You two wouldn't mind?"

"I don't know," Cabot sheepishly said. "I haven't really been trying to talk to mine, so I can't say for sure. The others did say that they don't know about the situation themselves though, which is why they can't lead us to Darkwhite."

"I promise I will," Cabot said, putting the lump back into his bag. "If it makes you two feel any better, I've been keeping this rock at the bottom of my bag since that fight with Darkwhite. When I found out that there was a Shade inside I've tried to avoid thinking about it too much, since...

"That's right. It seems like these strange stones are able to absorb them somehow," Cabot replied, holding his lump up so that Lugia could clearly see it. "And, well, I don't disagree about the Shades being terrible, but it seems like when we hold onto a stone with a Shade inside we get stronger...

"We don't really actively hunt Shades, but we do try to contain any we can find," Cabot explained. "And, well, I know some of my teammates have been keeping them as pets, but..." He hesitated a bit before continuing. "It just... doesn't feel right to me. The Shade in here is the same one that...

"I think it has something to do with how Diyem created these bodies... I'm not really sure how it works exactly myself," Cabot admitted. "At least it allows us to see Shades as well. We wouldn't have been able to capture them in these strange rocks otherwise." He held out his lump once more.

Cabot blinked and looked up from his Lump. "Oh, had Meringue told you about that? But I was just exploring Destiny Village when I noticed you two. I hadn't seen either of you since the fight, so I guess I just wanted to see how both of you were doing after everything that happened."

"That sounds about right," Cabot sighed. "Even if there is a limit to how often she can heal herself, she's probably smart enough not to fight us on her own, so it won't be easy to find out what that is." He glanced over to his Lump again. "As for finding her... we'd hoped at first that the...

Cabot gave Meringue a wary look, before shifting his attention back to Lugia. "That's right. We took her down fairly easy when we worked together... but the problem is that she somehow healed herself and got back up in less than a minute. She did the same a second time, and it doesn't look like...

"I don't really understand her either. I mean, what does someone like her even do when she's not trying to play games with us?" Cabot tilted his head again and slowly approached Meringue. "Are you alright, Meringue?"

Cabot turned to Lugia again, but shook his head. "I haven't. I know it hasn't been very long since we've destroyed that machine, but it is a little strange. She was giving hints about the machine even when Team Spice was still missing, yet now that it's destroyed she's gone quiet."

Cabot looked back at Lugia and tilted his head. "I... guess I hadn't thought of things that way. I know I definitely felt a little better when that machine was destroyed..." He took his Lump out of his bag and stared at it for a bit. "It's a shame we don't know what the source of these Shades...

"I... see," Cabot murmured. "That sounds a lot closer to what I went through than I thought. When that machine corrupted me I started thinking all kinds of bad things about my team and I wanted to hurt them as much as possible, but I was never directly controlled by it. In fact, I still wanted...

"That... must have been awful," Cabot said. "So you had no control over your actions at all?"

"Yeah, I guess that part was nice at least..." Cabot's gaze drifted towards the ground as he thought back to yesterday's events. Part of him wanted to just let things go, but that was easier said then done. He let out a sigh, before looking back up at Lugia. "If I may ask, how well do you...