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“Heh. And I’m gonna be—!” Astrid paused. “…a Ninetales.” Not very ferocious at all. Oh well. God, she felt awkward. Talking to Cuicatl alone was easy enough, but with Starr here, everything she said felt so… off. Those two being humans, discussing their Pokémon, their time being something else...

Ah. So Starr missed home too. Among these two humans, Astrid felt like an Oddish among Slugma—different on some fundamental level that she couldn’t parse. But it was nice to know she wasn’t alone in how she felt, and it piqued her interest enough to simply listen along to their chat. Humans were...

Starr’s efforts were commendable, yes, but Astrid was already backpedaling. “Oh. W-well, thanks. It’s just, the way you reacted, it kinda, it seemed like you were a little…” Astrid visibly cringed before she even got the word out. “—volatile?”

Astrid recoiled. With ears flattened against her head, she spoke in an uneven tone, “I-I apologize. I wasn’t trying to pressure you about it.

That was good enough for her. Astrid shrugged off her bag and took a seat in the grass. “Last time?” she repeated, puzzled. She flipped through every instance of seeing Cuicatl and Starr in her mind; none of them were overlapping, except at the very start—at the beach on that first day. So that...

Astrid couldn’t deny that she wanted to know herself. It would cross her mind from time to time whenever she’d idly cross paths with Starr in the living quarters or in town—not unlike a long forgotten memory to look back and cringe at, except in this case, Astrid wasn’t sure why she was supposed...

Astrid hadn’t made it five paces down the Crossroads before she noticed something was amiss. Cuicatl (whose message Astrid had not yet seen) rested on the ground as Starr stood over her, visibly in the dark about what she was doing. “Hi!” Astrid called, raising a paw, then snatching that paw...

Her legs ached. Her mind swam. They’d won handily enough, but she could practically still feel the vibrations in her fur. That Magikarp had come way too close to crushing her. Astrid stepped towards the Prarie at first, but paused. There were already plenty of Pokémon heading that way, and...

The plan worked! …Unbeknownst to Astrid, who lost all semblance of control once she’d successfully offered herself as a platform. The world as she knew it spun at a daunting horizontal angle before she impacted the dirt below, back-first. She quickly scrambled to her feet, and—why was it...

This was bad. They were way too close; Sushi especially had a head start on them. As Helli would say, they’d been caught lackin’, straight up. Astrid scowled—it would’ve been nice to have his electric attacks right now. Instead, they had a battering ram, and when Astrid noticed him running only...