the sound of the river moving from north to south, towards the road where parvati was stationed, gave everything a low hum. she could smell the water pretty clearly, even with the woodsy alpine notes of the trees.

she was distracted by the sensations of nature around her, so when her current working partner spoke up, she shivered like a rabbit caught outside of its warren - looking bright-eyed towards officer lopez as if he'd just materialized.

his poochyena was already on the case; well trained and eager to please, more than parvati at this stage of her training. she felt a little bit out of her depth with this assignment. it didn't help that the officer wasn't taking this seriously - or so parvati gleaned from his question.

"i hope its neither," she answered honestly, with no small amount of naivety present.

"i'd rather this be a wild swanna chase where nobody is hurt, or -- or dead."

still, they wouldn't have been sent out here if that was the case. parvati had only skimmed the case file and most of what was written there still went over her head, so she was relying on the more experienced officer to show her the ropes.

to get her mind off of the darker possibilities, parvati grabbed one of her pokeballs and in a flash, summoned a partner to help alongside the poochyena: her scorbunny, savitya. the rabbit pokemon looked around hastily and then ran a quick circuit around both of the trainers, before seeking out the poochyena, at which point parvati had to call him back.

"hey, hey! we're here to work, not fight. see if you can find any sign of another person in the area, okay? if you find something come right back here." it was hard to keep savitya focused; even before parvati was done giving orders, the rabbit was hurrying up the path.