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"Okay..." She didn't get along with her brother. That was normal enough, probably. But if she didn't like him, why was he chosen as her familiar? Getting Coco was starting to look like a surprisingly good outcome. Cuicatl was silent. Her head was lowered and she'd stopped openly fuming. Still...

“...he isn’t working for your dad now is he?”

“We weren’t planning on killing him,” Val protested “Alice will,” Cuicatl muttered. “It’s how she solves problems. He’s made himself a problem to her.” Val didn’t quite know how to argue with that. Or if she should. Or if she cared. “Lexx left with you, then?”

“‘m not going back ‘til I have mom’s Pokémon.” Cuicatl growled. “We were away from home when we were taken here. Probably will be away for... some time... once we get back.”

"Little things, mostly. More chores, grounding, cactus spikes through the tongue. Simple stuff like that. And... we were trying to get money to buy them all back. It's a lot of money but it's doable."

“He had a favorite kid. It wasn’t us. We were, I’m, a bit of a disappointment. And we didn’t get less disappointing when he disciplined us.” Cuicatl growled. “He sold my mom’s Pokémon.” “That too, yeah.”

Starr used Killer Glare! Cuicatl’s Blindness activated! The attack failed... “would’vefuckingrippeddadtoshredsifwemethere” Cuicatl muttered / growled / roared. “Ah, yeah, dads. I, uh, feel you.” Val paused. Was it rude to offer help when she was already helping her sister? Maybe. She did it...

"Uh? Second head. Rage power. Don't think that's a thing, but it might be tied to shadows..." Cuicatl didn't even hiss at her. Honestly, that surprised Val. "Sorry. I haven't been at the forefront of any of this, really."

What, like he ignored reasonable questions about his health? Sounded about right. "Uncovered anything yet? Got the universe to give you its secrets?"

Fun fact: A zwelious's dragonfire isn't hot enough to burn sand. Fun fact: That didn't stop Cuicatl from trying. "Hi, Lexx. Um. Good to meet you? You're Starr's shade, right?"

Val would have looked behind her, but what was the point? Politeness? Cuicatl snarled and started gnawing on a sandbag. Yeah, politeness wasn't really on the table right now. "Hey! Starr! Starr... friend." Oh gods why did she have to bring her brother. Of all the people to walk in... "Uh, you...

It wasn't hard convincing Coco to go find her Aunt Astrid. Val honestly didn't know where the fox was, allowing for games of "hide and seek" and "see how much biting she lets me do before I get frozen solid." Meanwhile, she was with Cuicatl. As always. What was new is that Cuicatl had finally...