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"Thank you." She didn't really know what to do with that. It made her uncomfortable enough that she wanted to leave. "I'll leave you to your reading, then."

“Hmm. Maybe gentler than we deserved, but I’m glad no one else had to pay for it.”

“Well, it could’ve been... the priests think my world will end in a few years, and I believe it. Lots of gods and monsters destroying stuff, usually after humans asked them to. We polluted the environment badly enough that whole species of Pokémon are dying, and humans will follow sooner or...

"I've never seen an image, but that does sound about right, yeah."

"Dragons are still the strongest. That's probably true in any universe." She paused. Ah, screw it. Not even going to pretty this one up. "It is, I guess. Both sides built massive, apocalyptic weapons so that they could end all life in the other. Except they couldn't fight because starting a war...

"We built giant metal tubes that shot attacks out the back, launching them up in to the air." Or something like that. Cuicatl wasn't a rocket scientist. "And they took us all the way to the moon. And everything runs on lightning. Our communicators, the heating and cooling of homes, lights to let...

"Oh. I forgot that I can't read." She laughed, but what else was she supposed to do. "No follow-up questions? I'd be happy to answer them." She'd be happy if he didn't leave right now.

“...washout? Sorry, I don’t quite understand... I guess the most impressive thing is that humans walked on the moon a few decades ago. And then stopped because the Clefable didn’t take it well.” Cell phones and the internet apparently exist here’s so that’s out. “We figured out how to make...

“More advanced at some things than others, unfortunately.” Although human medicine in general was way behind Pokemon healing, mostly because of how durable the latter were. Pokémon get knocked through walls and get right back up. Humans get a little too much fluid in their brain and die. “Mostly...

At first Cuicatl was focused more on the magic part. It existed in her world. The Europeans and their vanguard despised it. Anahuac gave it a wary respect. You never angered the witches, but no one really wanted them around. Blood magic was altogether different. That was the domain of the...

A pain of nostalgia and grief struck Cuicatl’s heart at the mention of a sister. Nostalgia and curiosity won out over the impulse to shut down or run away. “Sister, huh? What’s she like?”

“Oh? Is this place larger than your home town?” Cuicatl could vaguely remember something about Celeste’s past, but she wasn’t sure enough to bet on it. She’d met a lot of people as of late, all with their own strange stories. As for the village, well, Cuicatl was also unnerved, but she wasn’t...

She recognized that voice. Celeste. She'd entirely lost her composure in front of him before. He probably hates her now. Or pities her. "Hi." As for how things were going, pretty terribly. But if she said that, Celeste would either follow up and she'd break down in public or Celeste would hear...

Cuicatl found her way into the library, annoyed at being dismissed but still determined to be useful. Somehow. Otherwise what was she even good for? Sure, she couldn't read most books, but their might be braille or something. Not that she would know this world's version of braille. Or that her...