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[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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_{[... so ...]}

Are they dangerous?

Well...not usually! Pokemon aren't really interested in hurting people or anything...but they can be. Like, if you wander onto their territory or attack first, they'll protect themselves.

So, you gotta have a Pokemon with you to keep them away. It's not usually much of a problem; plus, if you can weaken a Pokemon you run into and have an empty Pokeball on hand, you can catch it!

Oh, like wild animals.

_{[That makes sense. Everybody knows not to disturb baby animals and stuff cause then their parents will be mad.]}

Should I catch them? Isn't that sort of like kidnapping, too?

Not really! You'd think it'd feel like that...but things work differently here. Pokemon are used to being caught by trainers and they work alongside the people living here. That, and there are a whole lot more Pokemon living in the wild than there are being owned by trainers.

So if you run into a Pokemon you wanna catch, give it a try! It'll be okay, I promise.

[Pokemon are independent from the moment they hatch, too. Mostly. It's easy to tell which ones would rather not be caught just by the way they act, if nothing else.]

Okay.

_{[She sounds unsure, but she's thinking it over, and she's watching the little bird in her hands that's burrowing into them to seek warmth. And she's kind of won over, honestly.]

[So there's a smile.]}

I always wanted pets. We only had fish for a while.

_{[Fish, obviously, do not count.]}

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Yeah? Well, I think you'll like these guys a lot. They're not just any pets, but I think you've figured that much out already.

[Leader growls a little in agreement, pushing his muzzle into his trainer's hand.]

But yaknow, a lot of people don't battle with their Pokemon. Some just aren't suited for it, so they keep them as pets. I've got a dog back home and he actually reminds me of a few Pokemon here...

[But that's, uh.

Because of reasons.]

Well, maybe you'll be able to catch a water type that is a fish!

I don't want a fish! You can't pet them or anything.

_{[She's laughing a little though.]}

And you need to clean the tank and it takes ages.

Don't you miss your dog?

S'lot easier to take care of them here, though! Would you believe me if I told you I have a shark?

[He totally does. ...and it totally nearly bashed him over the head during a hurricane a few months back.

Jimmy pauses for a moment, his smile faltering just a tad.]

Hm?...oh. Yeah, I miss Cerbee a lot. I know my friends are prolly taking good care of him back home, though.

No way! Really?

_{[SHOW HER THE SHARK. This is the face of a kid who demands shark. Slightly apprehensive about shark but DUDE.]}

_{[-- aw about your dog though? Sorry, friend. Molly feels you. Except mostly with people.]}

I hope you get to see him again. If I find a way home I'll tell you about it.

Yeah, really!

[HE WILL TOTALLY SHOW HER THE SHARK he'd just have to take a quick PC trip first. It's lucky because his shark is in those top percentage of sharks that don't want to rip his head off.

At that, he laughs a little under his breath.]

Thanks Molly. Like I said, I'm not too worried about him, so it'll be okay, I think.

[Just as long as someone IS keeping an eye on him. Cerbee can get a little out of hand.]

_{[Don't lie Jimmy. That is a whole lot out of hand.]}

Someone said time stops back home, did you know that? If that's true I guess you don't really have to worry at all.

_{[She says, still deeply worried and not quite buying into that fact, but you know.]}

[So out of hand that you gotta watch where you tie your dog in the event that he drags your whole house away.]

Mhm, I've heard about that. Yaknow...some friends of mine from home actually showed up here a couple weeks ago. Just for a little while, a few days...but they told me the last time they saw me was only a few minutes ago for them. And I've been gone for months.

So, it looks like it might be true.

I wonder who's doing that. If that's the same person who got us here or not.

_{[Asking the Big Questions. Because obviously, being kidnapped to here is a bad thing, but if someone's considerate enough to stop time .. that seems like a good thing? But maybe it isn't.]}

[Jimmy shrugs, looking down when Leader puts his head on his knee.]

Dunno. Could be someone....or something. People have lots of different ideas, but nobody really knows what's the right one.

_{[Molly is idly stroking the bird, who's still hiding out in her hands.]}

It takes a while, sometimes. But they can't keep it from us forever.

Keep it from us.

[He echoes, frowning slightly.]

You think they know...and just won't tell us?

Well, someone's doing it.

If nobody knows why it's cause they're hiding it.

_{[She says this with utter conviction.]}

Mm...I 'spose it's possible. But there are also people who have been here for a real long time. Like, four years, long.

I figure they would've figured it out by now if these people were hiding something from us.

Not if they don't know who it is.

That's what everyone's telling me, that nobody really knows who's doing anything.

Mm...that's cause nobody really does. At least, as far as I know. It's not that there isn't a way home, cause people do go back all the time...it's just not something we can control, I guess.

No, but someone is.

_{[She will not budge on this point. This is a very important point.]}

Even if we can't, someone can. Or else we wouldn't be here.

Okay, you got me there. Maybe one of these days we'll really figure out what the big deal is, huh?

We have to.

Whoever's doing this could be a bad guy.

A bad guy...

[Jimmy doesn't want to think that that would be true. He likes this place, after all...even if it isn't home.]

I guess it's possible. If that were so, then they've gotten away with this pretty well for a long time...

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