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i used to dream in the dark of palisades park

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saoirse quinn
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the shadows breathe
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every night i burn, dream the black crow dream
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POSTED ON Sept 16, 2021 23:58:39 GMT
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What was the Dark Triad?

Was it the entity, or a project? Why were these people planting tech around Hoenn, at food stands, and in the Cave of Origins?

What was the message that the Unown Report was meant to deliver?

All of these questions, without the breaks of sleep, plagued her with anxiety. She wanted to focus on her own projects, but she found that she couldn’t turn away from such an ominous mystery—especially when she’d noticed something particularly relevant to her. N was for nightmare. What did that mean?

She knocked at her older brother’s door, looking for answers.

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POSTED ON Sept 17, 2021 0:18:21 GMT
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A single, sharp bark rings out from behind the door. There's a long pause and the rattle of a deadbolt before the door unlocks to reveal Gavin's silhouette against the frame.

"Saoirse."

He sounds surprised, but not unhappy to see her.

"Come in. I was in the middle of cooking dinner; that's why it took so long to answer."

A hearty aroma wafts from the direction of the kitchen, which he leads the way toward after letting her in and locking the door behind them. His Lycanroc have learned to keep their distance from guests but the red eyes of the pack's leader piece from the hall.

His Riolu has no such qualms about space, her short tail wagging as she yips a greeting.

Gavin turns the stove back up and sits at the island. He seems relaxed, absent of the usual stiffness in his movements.

"Something up?"
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saoirse quinn
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POSTED ON Sept 17, 2021 0:42:10 GMT
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Lulu had realized she didn’t like her real name anymore, but didn’t mention it.

“Cillian,” she greeted in turn.

Stepping in, she breathed the aroma of his culinary efforts. “Smells good.” She was shit cook, and rarely smelled decent food considering she didn’t go out at all. Her stomach growled. Her eyes briefly met those of the yipping Riolu, and then the alpha Lycanroc staring her down.

“Yeah. Well—I don’t know.” She pushed thumbs into the pockets of her slacks as she briefly looked around. Then, her attention fully settled on him. “What do you know about the Unown Report?”

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POSTED ON Sept 17, 2021 0:50:05 GMT
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Gavin's lip twitches at the sound of his name.

Here, in his house with his sister and with his real name on her lips, he can almost pretend they're normal. It's nice.

"You're welcome to stick around. Made more than enough."

He tended to cook in batches so that he wasn't delegated to shitty food when his schedule got too busy to keep up with a routine.

"Temp'll be over later but he's working right now."

So they had some quality time to themselves before swung by.

Her question sees Gavin cant his head before pulling the strange device he'd received from his pocket and opening it up. There's been only one new entry since he'd checked it last.

"Not much," he admits. "Just that scanning them unlocks new entries. I only had the one, but it seems to update the whole database when anyone with access scans one in."
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saoirse quinn
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POSTED ON Sept 17, 2021 1:34:34 GMT
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“Thanks. Think I will.” She was starving, really. When had she even eaten last? The concept of time eluded her more and more as it passed.

At the mention of Temp working, she briefly wondered: what did Temp do, exactly? She thought of him on the floor with Lil Lulu in the labs, sorting broken pokéballs in a volunteer effort. A shake of her head rid it of the image.

Her brother pulled out a device and she gasped.

Cillian. Why are you using that thing? Why is it in your house?

She looked severe, and her paranoia strained in her voice. Her sleeplessness was showing, maybe.

“You don’t know what it is, do you? She didn’t either, which was why she didn’t trust it.

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POSTED ON Sept 17, 2021 1:40:17 GMT
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Gavin blinks in the face of her severity.

"It's information, regardless of whether or not I understand it. As for why it's in my house: because I'm in my house."

He kept it on him, just in case something interesting happened, because this was Hoenn and you never knew when the city you lived in would literally flip upside down and rearrange itself at its leisure. Or sprout a massive tree out of nowhere.

He glances out the window toward said tree, its towering trunk dominant against the landscape.

Then he looks back to and shakes his head.

"No, I don't, do you? You seem awfully worked up about it."
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POSTED ON Sept 17, 2021 1:52:49 GMT
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Lulu found a seat at the bar and rested her forehead in her palm. Clearly, she couldn’t save these people from themselves.

“…”

Arceus.

The scientist was generally always worried that she was being followed or looked in upon in some sense. It kept her wake clean, and her paranoia sharp.

No. That’s why I’m worked up.”

She sighed.

“Whatever. What about Dark Triad? Heard anything about that?”

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POSTED ON Sept 17, 2021 2:23:33 GMT
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's own paranoia sparks his own, but Gavin doesn't rid himself of the device. If this lead to something important, Rocket needed to know about it.

His brow furrows.

"Dark Triad?"

Nothing comes to mind, and another glimpse at the device shows it has nothing to do with the report. He glances back up and shakes his head again.

"No. Where'd you hear about it?"
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saoirse quinn
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POSTED ON Sept 20, 2021 21:31:17 GMT
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Even being the sleuth of the two, Lulu always had assumed Gavin to have all the answers before her. It was only recently that she was coming to realize his faults, and her own strengths. The unique jaggedness of the human character, and how no one was exempt from it.

No one was as smooth as they portrayed themselves to be. Even Circhester ice was breakable.

“I found it in Theo’s phone. From the report.”

The tension in the subject briefly crossed her mind, but the importance of clarity overrode the weight in her chest for her brother’s pain.

“And then Rowan told me he found the same message from something else—different, that he found in the Cave of Origin.”

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POSTED ON Sept 21, 2021 2:41:45 GMT
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Gavin swallows down the lump that forms in his throat at the mention of . What was she doing with his phone? He thinks of seeing them together at the Soiree and decides it's better not to ask.

He's seen so little of , lately; the last thing he wants is to start a fight over his own broken heart.

But perhaps the sister who'd grown up in his shadow would be able to recognize the flash of pain in his eyes, nevertheless, note the hard bob of his throat as he swallows down bitter feelings.

It's replaced by surprise at the mention of .

"Huh. He didn't mention it to me." Why? "I didn't even know he'd been to the Cave of Origin. Would've been nice to know before the Sootopolis op."
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POSTED ON Sept 21, 2021 3:30:16 GMT
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She didn’t recognize the pain. How could she, when she had never allowed herself to see it before? Or maybe he hadn’t displayed it. Maybe it was a combination of both.

Her eyes didn’t turn away, but her mind did, until the moment passed.

And then it was on to their little brother.

Would’ve been nice to know.

It felt awkward, like she was betraying the sanctity of ’s confidence in her. Her own scientific explorations had been kept a secret from Gavin for so long. She should have maybe granted Rowan the same privacy, but… policies were different for a newcomer. Maybe blood wasn’t everything, after all.

She would tell Gavin what she knew, if only so she could help maintain the knowledgeable image she projected upon him.

“Well.” Her face shifted to the side. “Now you know.”

What now? Shit.

“It’s just like, trace data. I wonder if it’s an entity or something. I’m leaning towards the thought that the shit wasn’t meant to be found, as public as everything else has been.” Maybe, though. Maybe far within was the true riddle.

Her eyes evaded for a moment to a window, viewing the beach.

“What do you think about what happened here? When everything… shifted?”

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POSTED ON Sept 21, 2021 3:40:43 GMT
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"Now I know."

And he'd be talking to about it in due time. Not a confrontation, he tells himself, just a talk. It's not as if Gavin can fault his brother for keeping secrets from Rocket when he'd kept his own identity a secret for them for most of his life.

He thinks of Walsh bending the shadows to reflect his own face and goosebumps pimple his skin.

Can she do that, too?

But he doesn't ask, because he'd sworn to keep it their little secret.

"If they were hiding it in the Cave of Origin, yeah, probably not." The Cave was theirs to explore, now. Their city, a bastion of Rocket's growing power in the region. Pride kindles low in his chest. He gestures to the logo featured on the device. "Is this their logo? The 'Triad'?"

Of Sootopolis, he grimaces.

"Just another day in Hoenn," is dry, but he adds, "I keep expecting it to happen again. We still have no idea what caused it, or why."

He has dreams about it. Nightmares.
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POSTED ON Sept 21, 2021 4:07:46 GMT
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Lulu couldn't do that, no, but that would be pretty cool.

At the mention of the logo, Lulu shook her head, giving the smallest, bewildered laugh.

“I don’t know—but the one on Rowan’s device was Wrynn Corporation’s.”

She looked away from the beach and back to Gavin, the look in her eyes more suspicious than her tone.

As for what had happened in Sootopolis, his guess was as good as hers. She hoped to find those answers and more with her projects, though. For now, she merely shook her head.

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POSTED ON Sept 23, 2021 7:52:06 GMT
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"His family's."

The other side of it, the side they weren't a part of.

"Did he tell you anything about it?"

Gavin doesn't bother hiding the suspicion in his tone. Not from her.

"They were trying to build a purification machine. The Wrynns. That's why Rowan was asking questions about shadow Pokemon. That's why I hunted him down. I got him to give me their files. I still have them. I don't know if any of it's related to the Dark Triad, but I can give you access to what I have."
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POSTED ON Sept 24, 2021 19:29:11 GMT
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“That would be good.” She nodded.

“He said it was made by Olivia Abbiati. That it’s the same kind of machine that was used during the war to open wormholes to Ultra Space.”

She thought for a moment.

“The Unown Report mentions Ultra Space, doesn’t it?”

More realization.

“Let me see it. I mean I’ve seen it before, but… let me look at it again.”

Her hand was held out for the device.

Was all of this connected?

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