A cold wind blew over the rain-slickened streets, bringing with it a distinct oceanic tang that brought a smile to Skyler's mouth. While Slateport wasn't a city given to many hills, the captain found herself in a street overlooking the rest of the city - and beyond, the restless ocean.

Street lamps cast a yellow glow onto the street below, contrasting with the lenghtening shadows spilling onto the city. Awash in pink and orange hues, the cloudy sky rolled with the warning of an upcoming tempest, which gave the sea captain pause. Brow furrowing, a silvery gaze settled over the coast, searching - finding that the distance was far too great to make out any relevant details. 

A squeaky chittering caught her attention, gaze falling on a cute rodent-like pokemon. It sped past before Skyler could do much of anything, although it seemed pissed off for some reason - likely due to the rain that soaked its fur.

Captain Dross herself could feel the drops of rain soaking through her clothes, raising goosebumps over her exposed skin. But she was careless and unhurried as she walked through the streets, and by the way she closed her eyes and smiled, one could almost say that she was enjoying it.

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Her pleasant walk was interrupted by an inconspicuous 'pssst' coming from a nearby alley.

Blinking rain away from her eyes, the downpour having calmed somewhat but still definitely there, Skyler peered at the beckoning silhouette of an arm waving at her.

From within the dark alley.

Captain Dross wasn't the brightest, nor the smartest. But there was a sharpness to her instincts that had served her well so far, despite her unfortunate lack of common sense. So when the beckoning arm appeared again, the captain immediately saw two choices: one, to go investigate the suspicious person in the alley and punch them if they so much as twitched; or two, to go investigate strange person the alley and kick them in case they tried to do something funny.

It wasn't much of a choice in the end, but when the man suddenly flung open his large coat at her when she stepped closer, she'd expected worse than the small array of pokeballs neatly stitched into the inside of the garment - and a promise that, should she be willing to spend some coin, she'd get a rare specimen to call her own.

Ah. Well. As long as it wasn't a Magikarp. She'd fallen for that one once.

And so, despite the shady character, Captain Dross resumed her walk with a lighter wallet and a new pokemon in her possession.

SHE... BOUGHT THE POKEMON FROM A SHADY DEALER? CATCH KOMALA/END THREAD
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