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POSTED ON Nov 17, 2021 5:32:15 GMT
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anastasia didn't have much respect for the dead.

at the very least, the hand on the shovel, sweat on her brow, and vague mud stains on her stark white lab coat quite obviously pointed in that direction. she stood atop a grave, looking into her barely-made progress with much frustration and thinning patience. a small lump of dirt hard formed at her feet, with only a few inches of soil dug out.

yes, what she was doing was kind of illegal. but, frankly, there was something larger at stake.

she was trying to prove a point.

ana picked up the shovel again and lodged it into the ground, much further than any of her other attempts had taken her. she smiled, briefly proud, before she realized she was not able to pull it out.

oh, arceus.

she kicked the shovel and cursed at it, before glancing over at nancy, her rotom and personal asistant who was dutifully lighting up the surrounding area (and scaring away passersby). nancy blinked at her, offering to be neither her moral support nor moral compass.

"what am i doing wrong?" she asked the rotom, exasperated and almost ready to call her midnight adventure quits.


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POSTED ON Nov 17, 2021 8:26:22 GMT
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it's a shame the sight of a rotom isn't quite scary enough to dissuade him from approaching. it's not what he expects to see, but it does provide sense to the sounds he heard earlier.

someone's digging up a grave.

or robbing it?

"you're jamming it too deep in. makes it harder to lift it back up."

he walks over, hand extended out as if to ask for the shovel. on his shoulder, his ditto waves.
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POSTED ON Nov 18, 2021 1:30:10 GMT
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aha! that actually made sense. she was going too perpendicular instead of, well, scraping at it more. nancy was such a genius.

"you're so right," anasatasia said, not even turning to look at the man behind her (or really even processing his existence). "i hate how this thing keeps getting, stuck, though, you know -- i should've probably just gotten a smaller shovel, i can barely even--"

she spun around, mortified. she caught the man's eye and yelped out in surprise, running a quick circle so she was behind her rotom and a safe distance away from the man. nancy, ever the diplomat, had not bothered to alert ana of matias's presence and seemed to care very little that anastasia was using it for protection.

"i am an officer of the law! and whatever i'm doing here is fully sanctioned by the law," anastasia said, shouting out whatever she could at the top of her head. to her credit, the confidence in her voice was incredibly convincing...if only she wasn't hiding behind a pokemon with wide eyes and a guilty conscience. (if only she wasn't saying it at all, really.)

it was then that she noticed the man's outstretched hand, ready to grab the shovel.

"wait, you want to help?" she asked, after a second of contemplation. because sure it made sense that she was doing this totally nonsensical thing, but what on earth was another person doing here? and worse, why was he willing to help someone dig out a grave? she was suspicious of him at once and didn't quite grasp the irony of her suspicion. at least, not yet.



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POSTED ON Nov 18, 2021 8:53:11 GMT
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she yelps, and he almost takes a step back in surprise as well. oops! guess he had snuck up on her, huh? it's one of the traits he's picked up from virizion: the ability to just show up whenever.

"yes, i, too, am an officer of the law!"

he chuckles, poking fun. on his shoulder, the ditto bobs in laughter as well.

"and yes. it looks like you could use some help, after all."
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POSTED ON Nov 26, 2021 18:22:08 GMT
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the guy jumped back as soon as she did, but her eyes narrowed when he mocked her. she turned to nancy, but the rotom had a shitty grin plastered over its teardrop face, and ana shot it a glare. traitor, she thought, but she turned back to look at the man.

when he said he wanted to help, however, it was anastasia's turn to grin.

"lovely!" she said, clasping her hands together and almost forgetting about the shovel. she had to quickly reach out before it fell onto the man, but she tried to make the jerky movement look smooth and for the most part, maintained her composure. she kept the shovel outstretched, hoping he would take its handle from her.

"okay, so we're digging up this there which is supposedly an axew grave," she said, stressing the supposedly and arching her eyebrow at the stranger, wondering how he'd react. "but don't worry! if i'm right, and i usually always am, there won't be anything there."

she smiled confidently, ready to answer whatever question the man was no doubtedly going to throw her way. he had to be a little bit curious right. why a pokemon grave? why was it actually going to be empty?

heh. she loved being a detective.


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POSTED ON Nov 27, 2021 15:07:58 GMT
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he does take the handle from her, and almost immediately, he wields it with more confidence and ease than she had been. it's just from years of experience, of course, and nothing more.

"alright."

no questions come from him, at least not right now because she's probably expecting one or a few. for now, he busies himself with jamming the shovel into the dirt as he starts digging.

after a while, he finally asks:

"how do you know there won't be anything there?"
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