“Oh!” Eva gasps and is torn away from her concentrated effort to scrutinize the data when Amor Rose nearly runs into her. Of course, Eva shoots the rather handsome man a smile, “It’s quite alright. No harm done! It’s easy to get distracted here,” she assured him while placing her hands into the pockets of her white coat. Her lips part to speak when FERNANDO SILPH gives her name. There’s a moment where Eva glances over her shoulder at the CEO with a rather judgmental look. Eavesdropping but not even sparing a second for a greeting? Rude. She regards Yui Fujin Silph behind him with a small smile. She seemed sweet.

“Eva,” she corrects sharply before turning her attention back to Amor Rose, “Nice to you meet you, Mr. Rose and Adontis,” A young blonde appeared beside him. Eva returns Guinevere Auclair ’s smile with a nod, “Hello,” she greets in return.

The Rotom Phone buzzes by her ear and rudely places itself between her conversation with Amor Rose in an attempt to show her the lecture schedule. The doctor frowns and waves the device off like an annoying Cutiefly, “Sorry about that, still teaching it manners.”

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natalie spots a number of well-known individuals, though, her focus only really falls on two. Eva Morales and FERNANDO SILPH . she'd wait before approaching them.

now wasn't the right time.

curious emerald hues turn to the voice that calls to her, seeing a young man approach. her eyes linger on his identification badge, then back up to his face.

"dakota, was it?"

she tilts her head slightly.

"have we met before? i feel like your face is familiar."

it wasn't. but it felt like a nice thing to say. his name sparked a memory, however, but she couldn't place it. she'd play the patient game and wait for the inevitable introduction.

HOENN'S SCIENCE FAIR

HUMAN INGENUINITY PACKAGED INTO A SINGLE BUILDING

THE LACK OF ATTENTION FERNANDO SPARES THOSE AROUND HIM ALLOWS HIM TO FINISH READING. When he does so, he rises to his full height, straightening out his back with a roll of his shoulders.

In a similar fashion as to how Fernando kept Eva and Amor in his peripheral vision, the same applies to Yui. He can’t catch every little action but the way she peeks out from behind him, as well as move her head, tells him everything he needs to know. She’s not reading and therefore he can move on from here.

“Be sure to stop by the Devon Corp. stall when it’s open, Morales,” he warns before parting across the hall to the next exhibit.

“Was there one you wanted to see,” he squeezes out while walking, also refusing to bother with eye contact with his little sister. The stands prove much too arousing for him to waste precious real estate with direct conversation.

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Miles sits by the infinity industries table alongside a small team of researchers who served under him. For all the excitement the science fair instills in him the sound of Fernando Silph on the main stage brought a certain sickness to him and so he's chosen to sit for now. Still, he's gotten better at dealing with the disgust that came around Silph, he attributes it to his growing stronger in the time since his last passing of the man. Time spent with Rocket, with Stormy and slowly building self allowed him to better navigate pressures that would have put him out of commission months ago.

He knows coworkers and friends wander the floors and in time he'd stand and begin to visit, but for now, he sits biding his time. In the moment.

“Oh, it’s not you,” she states with a small laugh as the Rotom phone dips below their eyeline and towards her side, “It’s just trying to remind me of the lecture schedule, that’s all,” the phone (being nothing but a sentient phone) pays little mind to Adontis’s judgement and little outburst. Eva, on the other hand, can’t help but smile. The Pichu was pretty darn cute when it got angry. It’s sweet the way Amor Rose calmly corrects the pokemon’s actions. It’s surprisingly patient unlike Eva’s annoyed response to the Rotom phone’s rude interruption. Suddenly, she feel quit embarrassed about it.

Her eyes turn back towards Guinevere Auclair upon Amor’s introduction. “Associate among other things” make it sound suspiciously like she’s a lover. Interesting relationship. Eva waves off the thought with a nod of her head in Gwen’s direction, “Nice to meet you as well,” It’s FERNANDO SILPH’s voice that cut through again that make her turn towards the former councilman. She doesn’t bother to respond – indifference meeting indifference. The fact he thinks she’d find something interesting at a particular booth is intriguing. The Rotom phone buzzes and flips beside her, taking the note for her to visit Devon Corp. before the day is over. Eva’s schedule is filling up quite fast.

In all honesty, Eva had been following the progress of the Pokerus vaccine for quite some time now. It is, after all, her duty as a doctor to keep up to date with modern medicine, “Uhh yes, I am,” her head tilts as she glances that the data she had seen several time before, “The data is promising but I’m a little disappointed in the lack of third party testing,” A sharp snap of her finger brings the Rotom phone into view again. She reaches out to scroll through the booths in the main showroom. There are still quite a few she needs to visit before her own lecture.

“It was nice to meet you, Amor,” she smiles pleasantly. She plucks a business card out of her pocket and hands it to the silver haired man, “In case you wanna discuss more science,” she feels bad cutting conversations short, but there is just too much to see and not enough time to tackle it all.

Emerald eyes flash towards her next booth of interest. Amor Rose is more than welcome to follow, but the doctor is forging her own path through the exhibit hall. A smile tugs at her pink lips as she crosses the floor, Porygon2 and Rotom phone in tow towards Miles Sharp and Infinity Industries’ table.

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With the multitude of generators up and running now, Miles knew his company would attract more than its fair share of interest among the masses. What he doesn't expect is a certain Ms. Eva Morales to approach. Years prior Miles would have considered himself a fan of the league scientist. She, much like himself, was in the business of peace. Founder of DEPI and all-around altruist Miles had read many an article about the elusive pokemon doctor Eva Morales. When he stands to meet her and her possible entourage there's only a hint of joy in him now. He closes whatever file he found himself skimming through to meet the good doctor with a firm handshake and his full focus.

For all her work, DEPI had failed him personally when he and his people were in direct need. How long had it taken him to find medics much less give him and his now-deceased mother the time of day was appalling and it's something he still cannot look past. Even more, she chose to align herself tangentially to Fernando Silph. a despot and warmonger. Her stances on team rocket regardless of the iteration were problematic and he has an inkling that if she had her way all of its members would be treated like a cancer and incised regardless of circumstance.

That is all to say he knows nothing about the woman personally, he only knows her reported politics, but in the world, they lived even those spoke volumes about character, both his and hers.

" Dr. Morales, Miles Sharp."

Still, if the woman was worth her weight in salt and cared about helping people as much as she proclaimed there was something to be built here, professionally and personally. After all, Miles would give his life for the citizens of Hoenn, to heal his home of the war her people brought to his homeland.

"Head Engineer of Infinity Industries, it's a pleasure, truly." He pulls a smile from the depths of his stomach. For all the information his mind held, he'd attempt to keep it open in hopes Eva Morales is the woman he'd believed her to be all those years prior.