bright eyes;

[Hello Network! Long time no see - Molly's been busy with Sights and Wonders, but now having arrived at the point of that winding lovely trip, she presents you all with a video of her grin as she starts recording.]

[There's a sweeping, beautiful plain behind her; sun high in the sky, grass a lovely slightly yellow green, a few scattered trees in the distance. She's slightly out of breath, but there's laughter in her voice when she speaks.]

Look.

[She turns the gear around and she crouches a little, showing clearly a herd of calmly grazing Ponyta. Not far behind them is a group of Stantler - farther still you might notice something Manectric-blue.]

[She zooms in on the Ponyta, though.]

I'm gonna catch one.

[Guess who's having a good time at the Safari Zone? The video zooms back out to let everyone take in the awesomeness of the scene, and then it cuts out. She'll respond to messages once she has indeed caught a pony. Because who on earth doesn't want a pony.]

[Hello network! Have a bright looking Molly, sitting cross-legged on what looks like the floor of her hotel room, with the side of the bed as a backdrop. Curled up in her lap is an adorable very recently hatched Amaura, who is nonetheless quite alert and looking up at Molly as she sets the video up.]

-- okay, there.

[She sits back and waves, and then pets the ice dinosaur, looking down at him.]

Look! It's so cool that there are dinosaurs here. Even if they're not really dinosaurs.

He took a long time to hatch so I wonder if he'll grow really slowly too. And then get really big.

[Ice dino makes a soft noncommitical (probably) sound. Molly is lost in amazement that she now owns an ice dino for like a second before she looks up at the video again with another kind of smile; a more searching, curious one.]

Okay, I wanted to ask something. I know a lot of people have a lot of pokémon, but you can only have six with you, right? So you put the rest in the computer.

Does anybody know what it's like for them there? People told me that time stops back home when we're here so maybe it's kind of like that for them?

I have six now and it's so weird to think about putting them somewhere that isn't really here.

And how do you pick which ones to put in there anyway?

[Another little pause,]

Oh and I know it's really rainy right now but if anybody wants to do anything or say hi to Jay you can call me.

[Bye network!]

Action:

[GUESS WHO IS NO LONGER CHERRYSTUCK. Molly is no longer Cherrystuck! It's a little after noon when she finally gets to Violet, all her pokémon (and one of Shaun's) out with her and following her onto the sidewalk that just kind of appears next to the grass. She kept them all out so she'd feel less lonely. It got quiet and haunting on the routes at night, but she bought a book before she left and her pokémon kept her company.]

[She goes to the Center first, and then the Inn, she calls Shaun, and then she looks around. Violet is a lot bigger than Cherrygrove, but it's nowhere near as big as Los Angeles, and she still thinks it's more a town than a city.]

[She can be found here and there throughout the next few days, especially hanging out near the bridges over the freezing water looking at the Sprout Tower and playing hide and go seek with her pokémon in the trees lining the town. When she's not curled up in the Inn lobby drawing or reading a book because it's still pretty cold out.]

Audio, private to Shaun: I'm in Violet now! Where are you?


Audio, january 24th:

Does anybody know if there's a pokémon that's good at finding people? Or ... if there's a move that can do that, I guess.

[Contemplative, kind of introspective sounding girl who's thought about this for a while.]

Like ... like they could see really far.

Action:

[No no no no no no. No. That's not her mom. That's not her mom, and this isn't the airport, and it's another nightmare, it has to be. What else could it be? It's a dream and it's not her dream and that means she's trapped.]

[Anybody in New Bark will likely catch the sight of a little girl slowly backing away from the house she'd woken up in with wide eyes before breaking into a run and coming to a stop next to some trees to dig through her backpack. Except it's not her own backpack. And the things inside aren't what she wants or needs them to be.]

[Which is a big stressor to a kid who has no idea what to do.]


Audio, later:

Hello? Mr- Parkman? I didn't do anything, I promise.

[Spoken with the urgency of children who want to prove themselves innocent everywhere.]

Please let me out.

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