voicemail

[walkersystem]

"Hi, it's Molly. Leave a message and I'll call you back!"

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[wing_attack]

... Yeah. It... it does. She's... they let me take her, after the service. I don't know what I'm going to do with her, but...

[He sniffs, and there's the sound of his clothes rustling over the microphone.]

... I don't know what to do anymore...

[walkersystem]

_{[It takes her a moment to figure out what he means. But she's quiet for a moment longer anyway.]}

Do ... do you have a pokémon there? Like a dog or a cat or anything?

[wing_attack]

I've got Regal here. Rachel... Rachel is in her Pokeball.

[He's not sure if he can let her out right now.]

[walkersystem]

You should hug him.

_{[She doesn't know what else might help. But plushies or pets sometimes do, right?]}

[wing_attack]

I did. He's... it's better that he's here than if he weren't, but it's... still not okay.

[walkersystem]

I know ... I'm really sorry ...

Are ... are you still in Goldenrod? Cause if you want we could meet. But maybe you just want to be alone.

[wing_attack]

... I'm near Ilex Forest. I could fly back, but it would take a little time. I don't want to push Regal too much.

[walkersystem]

Well, if you want. We could ... go eat ice cream or something, or ...

You don't have to or anything but sometimes that makes me feel better when I get upset.

...

_{[There's a sound like she might say something else, but in the end she just trails off.]}

[wing_attack]

... I haven't had ice cream in a long time. Or at least, it feels like a really long time.

[walkersystem]

It's summer now. You have to have ice cream when it's summer.

[wing_attack]

It was always warm where I lived. Not really hot, but we never really got winter.

[walkersystem]

Me too. Where are you from? I lived in LA.

[wing_attack]

... Really? I'm from that area, too. Or... when I lived on the west coast, I was.

[walkersystem]

Yeah. I grew up there. Then I moved to New York last year.

[wing_attack]

Oh. I bet that was a big change, if you've never lived there before.

[walkersystem]

Mm ... it was really cold.

Did you move from California too?

[wing_attack]

Sort of. My aunt and uncle lived on opposite sides of the country, so every few years I'd move.

[walkersystem]

You didn't live with your parents?

_{[.. and she realizes right away why he might not, so she looks a little sorry she asked.]}

[wing_attack]

N... no. I thought my mom was dead for a long time, but it turns out she went blind and got amnesia. My dad... I thought had run off or died or something. But it turns out he was an alien and he died in front of me. I don't know if that makes me an alien genetically, since the Ellimist messed with timelines to put him back where he was 'supposed to be'... but I never really got a chance to know him.

... My aunt and uncle hated each other, and neither wanted me, so they just kept moving me back and forth.

[walkersystem]

... your dad was an alien?

_{[Sorry Tobias, sorry. Hold up. Sorry. She needs to process that first. That's actually really distracting, even if her tone is still pretty soft and unsure.]}

[wing_attack]

... Yeah. He morphed into human and got himself stuck that way on purpose to stay with my mom, apparently.

[walkersystem]

That's really sweet.

_{[She says that with a small smile, and he might hear it, but then she's quiet for a few seconds before she says, with a lot of feeling because she knows what this is like,]}

I'm sorry your parents are gone.

[wing_attack]

Elfangor... he's the one who gave us the morphing power. So I'm thankful for that, but I never got to know him. I... I mean my mom's still alive now, so I guess that's nice... and we fixed her eyesight. But she's... she still doesn't remember me. It's not her fault, but... it's like I still don't have a mom.

[walkersystem]

But you have a lot of friends here, right?

_{[Trying to find the silver lining ...]}

[wing_attack]

... Yeah, I do. It's... strange to me. I never had friends like this back home. The six of us mostly started being close friends after we got the morphing ability, not before. But otherwise no one really wanted to hang out with the weird nerdy kid.