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Please don't martyr yourself, Celeste thought, We need a team. We can't just... leave people behind. "I expect convincing the others to allow Diyem to use the tree to restore his personal power would be a non-starter in the first place. Especially if we said we were willing to abandon you in the...

"Wha-" Celeste turned to look. He wasn't hearing things. That was indeed Icetales. Celeste ran up to him and drew him into a hug. "Oh, thank goodness you're safe," Celeste whispered, "and tell someone before you pull things like that, not even Petram knew what was your intent was, you had me...

"Regardless of our opinions, I think healing Arceus will be necessary to reaching an agreement. I think that, of the other options, we would choose to bring back our teammates. Our thinned ranks are a strategic weakness, and we want... We need them back anyways."

Celeste furrowed his brow. "Augh, that sure is a tight spot..." Tell Maple, she flips out and may very well kill someone. Don't tell Maple, she finds out, and so may very well kill someone. Thus far, they'd gotten along with Maple because their interests has always been aligned. Maple had made...

Celeste cracked a smile. That’s exactly what he’d been hoping to hear. “Yes, I think that would would work quite nicely.” <><><><><>

“Yes, something like that. Still don’t know exactly what’s going to happen regarding who’s rooming with who, but I’ll figure it out later.”

“I’m glad to hear it. I’m feeling... better as well.” He still had to figure out where to sleep tonight. “I have to go find where I’m sleeping tonight, but I’m glad to have talked to you... Nip. You, uhh... deserve better.”

“That makes sense. Were I to have been in your place, I’d have gone mad wondering if I was the one in the wrong.”

“And without the intellectual pursuits, you end up living in dirt hovels covered in thorns.” Was that rude? Best to say something nice. “I can see why such a place was no home to you. You don’t seem nearly brutish enough to fit in there.”

“Oh, interesting.” In a world where there were no ferals, he’d have expected hunting to be more of an untasteful duty, not the other way around. “In my home, hunting is the least... tasteful of duties. Healing, well, the shrinekeeping family has Ho-Oh’s gift. We carry reputation.” To varying...

“Hmph. It takes time to learn such biases. No one my age saw difference in me. None, aside from the fact that most of the had been told by their parents that they weren’t to interact with me.” Celeste stopped to think for a moment. The conversation was becoming a tad cynical for his comfort...

“Ah... I see. Likewise, the Absol I had met before arriving here were the ferals ones.” The ones that I’m descended from. Still, assuming the Stunky in his example was the friend he’d mentioned before... “Was it all of them? Or did some shrug off the stigma?”

“Well...” He’d kind of set himself up for this, hadn’t he... “So... It’s a bit of a... long story. As I said before, my world has ferals like this one. There’s no observable physical differences between us, but the mental differences are... obvious.” He paused. “So the question is... What...

“Augh... And to think a moment ago I’d thought it sounded like a nice place.” How much should he say, Celeste wondered... “I-I can imagine what that would be like...”

“Oh... I suppose that makes sense. Makes more sense than my world’s meaning of feral, I guess. You’re pretty obviously not that.”

Wait, his world didn’t have- So Nip ate- Oh. Oh no. Celeste tried not to act sick. “Wha- Why? Why would anyone create a world like that? A-At least I didn’t have to hunt- Oh. Nip. I’m so sorry. Th-That sounds...” He was shaking a little. “M-My world at least has ferals like this one. They’re...

“But for... what he said in the battle, I assume? I overheard...” What to say? “He... I... I don’t know what to think about that. We can only hope the things they said under the machine’s influence don’t reflect the way they really think of us...” Having experienced it himself, he was pretty...

“Well then...” That was a lot to unpack. Nip’s situation must be pretty bad back home for him to prefer this. Still, best not to press him. He wanted to be a friend, not an interrogator. If he handled this well, Nip might not even walk out on him. Celeste couldn’t help but wonder, though. Knew...

Wow, Nip really preferred to be here? That was no small hint as to the state of his world. Anyone from a nice world wou- I don’t want to be here. I don’t want to be here. Can’t we just be done already so I can go home? Celeste forced a smile. “Ah. That’s... nice. I’m glad you’re happy here...

Oh, Nips reasons for leaving were... complicated? That sounded like code for ‘I don’t want to wall you this.’ Did he mess up? Oh gosh, did he make Nip uncomfortable? Is this why people kept walking out of the middle of conversations with him? “Oh. Well, whatever the reasons were, I hope it...