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As soon as Steven closed the door behind them, he went straight to the bar, set down their takeout containers, and grabbed a glass from the shelf. A quick trip to the bathroom, and he came back with it half-filled with water. He set the glass down and Aggron stepped forward, depositing the...

By the time Steven awoke in the lone surviving armchair in his dorm room, night had fallen. The room was dark, save for the soft moonlight that filtered in through the patio doors. Slowly, he sat upright and groped in the dark for the nearby table lamp. He found the switch and squinted as the...

As soon as the door closed behind them, Aggron let out a snarl so fierce that Steven winced. The big steel type stomped into the room, hunched over and growling. "Aggron, we had to go," Steven said, his voice strangely meek. "I couldn't have asked Hayes to go back there to check himself, you...

As Hayes and Nosepass tucked in to the food, Steven couldn't help but smile. It was a relief to see how much better he seemed to be doing after this morning. "It's no problem," he said with a chuckle. "Aggron and I missed breakfast today, too." Aggron rumbled in confirmation as he polished...

Steven was still in a sour mood by the time he arrived at the dorms. The conversation with Irene still festered, a nasty reminder of Reena's fate, and now the fate of four trainers and their pokemon. He shuddered to think Hayes had been that close to being another casualty, while the morbid...

Steven tucked the plastic cutlery and paper napkin inside his empty takeout container and leaned back in his patio chair, satisfied. He and Aggron decided dinner in their room was the best option for the night. Steven was sure if he had to wait at a table for food to arrive, he'd have been...

Steven glanced over his shoulder as the barkeep closed up the Sap Sipper, locking the door for the early night. It was as Odette said, there was probably some kind of curfew in place as a safety precaution given what had happened that day. The mood was glum as he and Aggron filtered into the...

Dinner that night was a subdued affair. At least compared to the first night when everyone had piled into the main hall right from the boat. There were only a few groups of trainers around when Steven and Aggron sat down with their food. (Weirdly, some of them were still talking about...

Dinner had ended almost as abruptly as it began. Steven thought he'd been a decent enough conversationalist, but at his mention of Prim's partner, a look of alarm crossed her face and she immediately excused herself from the table muttering something under her breath. Then, when Steven turned...