"Aiyeee! A Ghost!" The dragon-hooded girl cried out in shock, dropping her Rotom Phone in the process, as she was clearly startled by the sudden voice she'd heard. Having not seen the boy on the tree yet, her first thought was that she was being stalked by a malicious spirit!

Andrea soon saw the boy and his Trevenant, however, jovially waving at the two. "Oh, a trainer. Or are you the spirit of a lost child...?" She mused, reaching out to poke the kid's shoulder with her index finger, relieved to find out that he was made of solid material. "I can touch you, so that means you're alive!" She asserted, before kneeling down to retrieve her device, accidentally pressing a button on the unlocked screen. "Oh no! I ended the stream on accident! Now my viewers will never find out about my finding!" She fretted.

"Oh well, I can just write a blog about it later!" Andrea almost immediately added, getting over it as if it were a very minor inconvenience. Her attention soon shifted to the Ghost-type Pokémon accompanying the younger trainer. "So, is it really true? Were you really a human in your past life?" She eagerly asked the Trevenant, her face practically gleaming with excitement.

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Andrea's ruby-colored eyes sparkled when the boy cleverly mentioned that Ghost-type Pokémon could be tangible too. "Oh, that's a really good point! Are Ghost Pokémon truly dead, or are they alive? I always thought of it as some kind of reincarnation. Then again, most Ghost Pokémon are able to breed. When a baby Ghost hatches from its Egg, is it considered dead even though it was just born? Or does the soul of its previous life enter the Egg just before it hatches? Or is the Egg itself a metaphor for the afterlife?"

Needless to say, they had opened a whole can of Wormadam with that train of thought. After she was done babbling, the dragon-hooded girl took a deep breath, before bowing her head in an apologetic manner. "I'm sorry, Mr. Trevenant. I wasn't trying to be rude. I was just curious. You see, I've been trying to solve the mystery of human-Pokémon transformation for a while now. Please don't Curse me with bad luck." The young woman pleaded, although at the mention of being Cursed, her Deino jumped in front of her, ready to protect her if the need arose.

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The Trevenant slowly lowered its creepy, wooden claw of a hand towards Andrea's head, giving off a menacing vibe. Chomper bared his draconic teeth and hissed threateningly, thinking that his trainer was about to get harmed, only to whimper in fear when he saw another hand coming towards him. Luckily, no women or dragons were to be harmed tonight. The spectral tree simply gave them both headpats!

"Mt. Pyre, huh? I've heard of that place. I mean, everyone in Hoenn has." Andrea mused, while following after the boy. She wasn't ready to part with him just yet, it seemed. She had a lot more she needed to know. "What's Mauville Hills, though? Mauville doesn't have any hills. What would a Ghost be doing on top of a hill anyway?"

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"I see, I see! So the second floor is, like, haunted!" Andrea nodded in understanding, keeping a mental note to make Mauville Hills the next stop in her Ghost hunting regiment. Still, a part of her couldn't fathom how such a bustling city teeming with life could ever attract the attention of the undead. Didn't spirits usually prefer quiet and desolate places? Another mystery to add to the pile...

The pajama-clad woman snapped out of her silent musings when the boy inquired what she was doing in the woods. "Oh yeah, I stream on splash.tv every now and then. My internet name is dragonborn27." She explained. "I was looking for Ghost Pokémon, particularly Phantump, since they're said to live in forests, and I thought I'd let my viewers watch it live. Holding my phone up all the time was so tiring, though!" She complained, apparently having second thoughts about her whole streaming gig.

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"Hmmm, something that's popular..." Andrea hummed in deep thought, checking her Rotom Phone once again. To be specific, she browsed splash.tv's homepage in order to see what the most viewed streams were. "Belle Delphox's hot tub streams are always trending, but I dunno about that. Sitting inside a hot tub in my bikini for several hours sounds pretty boring too. Who would wanna watch that?" She mused, seemingly clueless about why that kind of content was even popular.

The dragon-hooded woman shook her head. "Ghost hunting is much more exciting. It's filled with thrills, suspense and unexpected surprises! Take you and Trevenant for example. We didn't expect to meet you here, and yet you two make such lovely company!" She remarked with a friendly smile. "By the way, you said you're a Ghost-type enthusiast? What do you like the most about Ghosts?" She asked, showing genuine interest.

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The pajama-clad woman keenly listened to Aaron's explanation, or rather his digest of why he thought Ghosts were cool. She eagerly nodded her head, evidently agreeing with his stance on them. "That's so true! Ghosts have the best stories about them! Part of the fun is finding out if they're real or not." She stated.

Chomper curiously sniffed some small mushrooms that grew on top of a moss-covered rock. He then tried to sniff Trevenant's roots with the same amount of curiosity. What did a Ghost even smell like? "All Pokémon are super interesting! What I wouldn't give to become one!" Andrea continued musing, pulling her googly-eyed hood down so that it covered most of her visage. "Some can create earthquakes simply by walking! Some can level entire mountains! And some are so powerful they're the stuff of legends!"

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