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Elisabeth had requested that ana fell arrive for her first day of work at Fiorelli Floristry on the weekend, when it was closed.[break][break]

Her explanation had been a simple one: "It is spring cleaning, and my basement needs attention. I'd like to have your help for that."[break][break]

What was left unspoken, however, was that no one save for Elisabeth Fiorelli had been inside her basement since her little cottage had finished its highly customised completion. Several well-placed bribes had ensured that the architect responsible 'lost' his blueprints for that labyrinth below -- one that Rocket had personally recommended to her for precisely that reason.[break][break]

Regardless, the Kalosian woman felt mild trepidation as she waited in the front doorway for her new colleague to arrive. She idly fiddled with the thorned wedding band on her left hand, its golden sheen winking in the sunlight that spilled in through the window.[break][break]

The entirety of the main foyer of her cottage appeared immaculately clean, the kitchen scrubbed to a sparkling glisten and her floor swept of all dust. Her Bellossom and Roselia reclined at the dining table, respectively enjoying a glass of water as they relaxed after a morning of hard labour; her Scizor and her Lurantis had focused their efforts in weeding the garden.[break][break]

A very, very different group of Pokemon worked in Elisabeth's basement.[break][break]

Maybe she'll change her mind, and not show up at all.[break][break]

Elisabeth couldn't decide if that was the result she wanted. Cyg's words from before, however, came back to her: "I think... I think people change to the circumstances around them."[break][break]

She'd come. Elisabeth was sure of it.[break][break]

And right on cue, the bell on her front door chimed.

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Cyg rubbed the sleep out of her eyes onto the tops of her knuckles and sighed. She pulled her jacket tighter around her, still waking up in the unusually chilly Petalburg morning. It’d been a while since she’d gotten up so early for anything save work, and even though electric currents of excitement buzzed through her, tendrils of drowsiness still clung to her eyes and brain. [break][break]

Never let it be said that she was ungrateful, however. Cygne was beyond overjoyed that Elisa had given her an opportunity to do something else with her life besides be one of the rank and file fix-it folks that clogged Mauville’s electric arteries. She was stoked to learn to do something else with her life besides split wires and clean junction boxes. [break][break]

She paused at the end of the walkway up to Elisa’s house. It looked very storybook, her beautiful friend and her beautiful house in their beautiful woods. All of Petalburg seemed like it hopped right off the pages of a fairytale. [break][break]

Cyg was about to find out just how similar the two were. [break][break]

She hemmed between buzzing and knocking before she chose the doorbell. Like the rest of the place, it had a beautiful chime. [break][break]

“Hope I’m not too late,” Cyg said with a grin when Elisa opened the door. “Are we a shoes on or shoes off kinda house?”
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The question evoked a bright laugh from Elisabeth, who replied easily, "Shoes on, during working hours. Particularly in the areas we'll be working today. A lot of grime, I'm afraid." Arceus only knew how much filth had gotten on her basement's floor. Poison was all well and good, but the cleaning part of this visit hadn't been a white lie.[break][break]

The whole area really did need a good scrubbing and sweeping.[break][break]

"Catch." She tossed a broom to ana fell and grinned, beckoning for her to follow. The small closet behind her stairs opened wide, a rug pushed aside to reveal a bare square of untouched floor. Elisabeth knocked on it, once, then pushed back the wooden panels to reveal a cellar door with an intricate series of locks.[break][break]

Whether or not Elisabeth realised it, showing this part of herself to someone was... anxiety-inducing. Her hands fumbled on the ring of keys, which hopefully went unseen as she unlocked one latch, and then another. Click, click, click. [break][break]

"As you can see, I take security quite seriously," Elisabeth said calmly, though her heartbeat raced as she faced the one final lock: the one only her family heirloom, the golden rosette wedding band that had belonged to her mother, could open. She removed it from her left hand and inserted the metallic flower into the curious lock. A single turn, and the door shuddered open with an ominous creak.[break][break]

Pitch black darkness answered her motion, the faint silhouettes of her Pokemon moving in the shadows.[break][break]

"Close the door after yourself when you follow. And Cyg?" Elisabeth offered a brief smile to her companion, face illuminated by a dim candle that rested in her hands. "Don't forget the broom."[break][break]

And down we go.

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Cyg flashed Elisa a double thumbs up and did her best to clomp her shoes clean on her doorstep. “Shoes on, can do.” Theirs had been a shoes on house as well-- or at the very least, socks, given that no one ever wanted to clean. It was hard to believe Elisa would ever have anything dirty in her house, as perfect as it was. Yeah, she’d already put her friend up on a pedestal. Elisabeth could show her a dead body and Cyg would be like excellent decor, great taste.

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She caught the broom with a mirrored grin and couldn’t fight the swell of excitement rising within her. It was so nice to be doing something again-- something that didn’t involve hunting ghosts or getting eaten by giant fish. Something vaguely useful.

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Her smile turned to something confused as Elisabeth revealed the intricate contraptions protecting her basement from the outside world. Cyg’s gaze went from the woman herself to the sextuple locked hidden door and back again. She caught the stumble with the keys and concern became a knot in her stomach. “Yeah, I can see that,” Cyg confirmed, trying to sound reassuring, not judgmental. Maybe Elisabeth was going to show her a dead body.

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Elisa’s hands steadied by the time she opened the final lock and beckoned Cyg down into the darkness. Vaguely she had thoughts of another time with another member of Team Rocket; she held the broom up when prompted to show Elisa she wouldn’t forget it, and wordlessly-- with complete trust-- followed her down into the dark.

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POSTED ON Apr 2, 2022 21:45:00 GMT

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The bottom of the stairwell opened up to a wide, dimly-lit cellar, shelves built into the walls betwixt several narrow passages that disappeared into the darkness. Where those paths led was impossible to say this far away, but it gave the underground cavern the appearance of a labyrinth rather than a basement. The distant sound of dripping water filled the air, as did the scuttling of unseen figures in the darkness.[break][break]

"I'm bringing a guest," Elisabeth called out preemptively, but it didn't stop her Misdreavus from appearing in a puff of shadow and smoke, her tongue stuck out at ana fell as she loudly screeched, 'BOO!' The Ghost-type thought her behavior the pinnacle of humour if the way she laughed uproariously at herself was any indication. "Lavender, that is very rude," Elisabeth said, entirely unamused as she walked briskly forward.[break][break]

Countless vials littered the shelves, their labels crisp and clean and their contents darkly glittering. A few floral arrangements sat above them in tidy vases, foxgloves and oleander prominent among the many poisonous blossoms. As Elisabeth reached for one bottle, her Ariados dropped in from the ceiling, hissing protectively at the sight of Cyg.[break][break]

"You are all being very brutish, you know," Elisabeth said, sighing as if witnessing particularly egregious manners. Walking over to the other blonde with an exasperated air, she introduced Cygne properly: "This is Cygne. She is working with me now, and is a very good friend. No need to puff yourself up and act intimidating, hm? So stop that, you bullies."[break][break]

To their credit, the Pokemon did look a little ashamed of themselves.[break][break]

"What do you think this is?" Elisabeth asked Cygne pleasantly, handing the unlabeled vial to the other woman.

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Cyg didn’t really know what she was expecting. Her grandmother, god rest her, had a basement with blood-red carpeting and ochre walls that flooded every Littleroot spring and her dad would have to go down to pump out the water, and walking on the squishy carpet had felt like walking on flesh-- at least, that’s what little Cyg imagined. Anyway, she’d had a giant freezer full of frozen garden veggies and wall-to-wall shelves of canned pickles, beets, garlic, ginger, eggs, and other preserves. Her other grandma’s basement was where she escaped to have a cigarette and play poker online.

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Somehow Cyg imagined Elisa did not have a secret smoking station and computer hookup down here.

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The sheer size of Elisabeth’s underground lair made Cyg freeze in her tracks. It stretched far into the distance into the still dark.

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“You neglected to tell me you have the Batcave as your basement,” Cyg said, a shiver of excitement leaching into her voice. She sensed adventure.

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What she really sensed, apparently, was Lavender, materializing out of the darkness to try and scare her-- but the attempt fell on well-boxed ears, and Cyg just laughed. “That’s funny. You and Muirne should hang out some time.”

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The sudden ceiling spider did get her, however, and she jumped back with a cry, bringing the broom up like a lance, bristle end aimed outwards. Elisabeth was suddenly beside her, and that’s the only thing that stopped her from stabbing at the Ariados.

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Elisabeth went from scorning schoolmarm to educating one in a split second, and Cyg hastily tucked the broom under her arm and took the vial in two hands with utmost care. She squinted.

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“Well, it ain’t homemade pickles, I can say that for certainty.”

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[attr="class","bgtk-post"]Elisabeth laughed, the sound oddly bright in such a dismal place. "No," she said, deeply amused, "it is not." She tapped the vial with a nail, its clear contents sloshing with the movement, as she continued, "It's Toxapex vemon. One of the more devastating orders I receive on occasion. Not so dangerous if ingested, but if a weapon is coated in it..."[break][break]

She shrugged, a sly smile on her lips. "Let us say it is unpleasant," she said, eyes glittering with cruel suggestion.[break][break]

ana fell, fortunately enough, seemed to be taking everything in stride. Her reference of the 'Batcave' meant nothing to Elisabeth, who had spent her Saturday mornings climbing trees instead of watching cartoons, but the term tickled her for some reason. Maybe I should get a Zubat or two to hide in the rafters, she mused silently to herself.[break][break]

"My talents for Rocket tend to be of this nature," she said, reaching for an arrangement of oleander blossoms on a nearby shelf and tucking the vial into its centre. A string tied it securely into place, hidden among the leaves beneath the petals. "We do perform floristry here, and we do an excellent job of it. I enjoy it, even. But as members of a criminal organisation, this shop is also a front for the transport and cultivation of dangerous poisons. There are codes for their retrieval at the front counter."[break][break]

The Ariados had scuttled behind Elisabeth warily, peering at Cygne as Elisabeth calmly rested a hand upon the spider's head, petting it with care to avoid the Bug-type Pokemon's horn. "Not every exchange is one that can be made in daylight, nor should everything be done through a storefront counter," she said, turning to face her companion with a grin. "That's where you come in."[break][break]

It felt strange stating all this aloud. She had gotten used to the solitary nature of her work, even comforted by it. Yet there was a thrill in sharing this with ana fell, along with a mild twinge of shame for endangering her further.[break][break]

If she had learned anything about Cyg recently, however, it was this: the woman had far more grit than even Elisabeth gave her credit for.

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Elisa’s laugh echoed around her cavernous basement like the tinkling of windchimes in the middle of a hurricane. Cyg’s eyes widened as her friend went on to explain what, exactly, was contained in the vile; her gaze went from the object itself to Elisa’s face and back again. “Wait a minute, ‘orders’?” Cyg said, voice quiet and very confused. In her mind, she had a weird picture of a creature that was half Toxapex and half Elisa-- she shook her head to clear her brain of the bizarre image, like deleting her internet search history.
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She watched in silence as Elisabeth arranged the deadly bouquet and went on to illuminate the dark secrets behind her private life. Suddenly, a whole lot of stuff was making sense: We’re not poisoning anyone. Not today, at least. The spider. Elisa’s slightly cagey approach to the idea of murder. All of it fitting together like puzzle pieces.
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“Oh,” Cyg said finally. “Neat.”
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It was an understatement, and Cyg had to blink to get the words in order-- power up the hamster on the wheel that motored her brain.
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“I mean,” she said, leaning on the broom, “it’s very fascinating. But you could’ve brought me down here and showed me the hoard of orphans you adopted to start your own sweatshop and I’d still be behind you.”
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She did another look around, scanning the shelves. She meandered over to a small desk and brushed a finger across the cover of a book resting on its surface.
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“How difficult would you say it is?” Cyg asked. “On a scale from-- from spending Silph’s money to baking from scratch?” It felt appropriate to measure it in terms of experiences she and Elisabeth had gone through together. “My background iis n electrical engineering, not chemical, but I’m a fast learner.”

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[attr="class","bgtk-post"]The examples given made Elisabeth laugh. What was easier, spending a stranger's money or baking for one's bosses? In so many ways, she felt the difficulty markers should have been placed the other way around.[break][break]

"It depends." Elisabeth glanced down at her Ariados thoughtfully. "For example, Widow here has her venom in her fangs. If you wanted to extract it, you'd need to get her to bite -- preferably through a latex-covered bottle, of sorts. It can be difficult if you don't have a rapport with the Pokemon."[break][break]

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"But in your case, the Roserade I sent you will prove a much simpler task."[break][break]

Elisabeth threw a Pokeball lightly into the air, releasing her regal Roselia, Primrose. The Grass-type sniffed disdainfully at her surroundings, clearly displeased at where she had been awakened -- she had been taken away from her enjoyable time upstairs in the sunlight, after all.[break][break]

A pair of gardening gloves and shears was brought forth, as if Elisabeth was preparing to prune a hedge. "You'll notice the flowers on a Roselia's arms are thorned," Elisabeth continued, indicating the prickly briars on Prim's flowery arms. "They are quite poisonous, indeed. Wearing the gloves and extracting the thorns is one method of procuring my poisons. Your Roserade should work in much the same fashion."[break][break]

Clip, clip. The thorns fell into Elisabeth's gloved palms, pocketed into a vial as Primrose openly sulked at the injustice of being used as an unwilling example for instruction.[break][break]

"It's sometimes colloquially called Devil's Breath, for the similarities it possesses to nightshade," the blonde said amicably. "An overdose of it can be... thorny."[break][break]

A huff of absolute disapproval from her Roselia answered Elisabeth's pun.[break][break]

Unperturbed by her humor's poor reception, Elisabeth removed the gloves and shears, handing them to Cygne along with another vial. "Do you wish to try with your own Roserade?" she asked encouragingly. "Should anything go amiss, I have antidotes on hand."[break][break]

It was meant to sound encouraging, anyway.

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Cyg imagined Elisabeth was right; it would probably be hard to extract venom from a Pokemon that you didn’t really know, what with not having experience handling them, or a kind of… trust built up between human and ‘mon. Still, Cyg had never even heard Elisa mention her weird spider, or any of her other Poison-making Pokemon; granted, they lived in the basement, but still. How close could they be?
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Observing with utmost care and bated breath, Cyg nodded once Elisabeth produced the vialed, finished product. A whoosh of laughter left her, even though “I’m with Primrose, that wasn’t your best one.”
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When Elisabeth prompted, a lightbulb went off over Cyg’s head. “Oh!” she said, rustling in her pack for a Pokeball, from which she released Shayarsha. The Roserade, like her previous evolution counterpart, also seemed unimpressed by her surroundings-- but she laid eyes on Primrose and Cyg swore her eyes flashed red. Hastily, Cygne interjected herself between the Roserade and Roselia. “Just-- just bare with me, Shay,” she said, spreading her arms out as a blockade like she was guarding someone from a bull or charging horse.
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“I’m supposed to-- clip your thorns?” she said, head tilting slightly, as she reached for the proffered gloves and shears. The Roserade lifted one eyelid in an excuse me? expression. “Your poison. I’m supposed to harvest your poison. Like Elisabeth did with Primrose.”
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Ah. There was almost an audible click of recognition, and Shayarsha shot an angry glance at Primrose. Unwilling to let the lesser version of herself outdo her in a feat of supposed bravery, Shay held out both her red and blue bouquets. Cyg didn’t understand it, but Shay was actually asking a question: fast, or slow?
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“Does this hurt?” Cyg asked, to both her Pokemon and Elisabeth, as she hesitated to make the first cut.
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[attr="class","bgtk-post"]The way Primrose and Shayarsha glowered at one another reminded Elisabeth why she had gifted the Roserade to ana fell in the first place. She shook her head ever so slightly at her Roselia, causing Prim to back away with a 'hmph' of disapproval.[break][break]

"Pruning does hurt a plant slightly," Elisabeth conceded, "but when done responsibly, it stimulates their healing process, allowing for overall better growth. In other words it is more like a cut, than a true wound. At least the way we are going about it."[break][break]

The blonde watched her companion hold the gardening tools in silence, startled at the sudden realisation that she'd had no such mentor herself in the art of poison. Not in that way, at least.[break][break]

A hazy memory of the late Dowager Countess Bortiforte and her Salazzle came to mind, the heady aroma of foxglove and oleander that permeated her parlor, and eventually the pages of the books that a young Elisabeth had found among her deceased mother-in-law's effects.[break][break]

Practicing her Roselia's and Gloom's poisons on wild Rattata and Pidgey hadn't been ideal, but it had been educational.[break][break]

"You needn't take part in this part of my work, however, if you'd prefer not to." Her voice was gentler now, kinder. "The option is yours to take. If you prefer, we can merely make flower arrangements, and you can deliver the more sordid of my offerings without getting your own hands dirty."[break][break]

She didn't subscribe to the mentality that everyone in Rocket, by definition, had to be a murderer. That she was one herself was more a matter of happenstance than anything else.

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Cyg felt her face curling into a smile, outside of her control. Elisabeth was such a good mom--er, mentor! Mentor. No need for any of those psychological issues to crop up here, no ma’am. “I don’t mind! I’m actually very interested.” Making poison sounded super fun, if she was being honest. It made her feel like a horror movie villain which… probably said a lot about her. She looked at Shayarsha, who had given up death-staring at the Roselia and was, instead, looking thoughtfully at her trainer.
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“I just… Shay, you have to be okay with it. The cutting, and stuff.” Cyg lifted the garden shears and gave them a snip-snip, as though to demonstrate. “And, like, you have to actually be okay with it. Not just doing it to be better than Primrose.” The Roserade blushed (somehow) and turned away, as though Cyg had just called her bluff. “Yeah, that’s what I thought. So, whaddya say?”
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It didn’t take a long time for Shayarsha to think about it; again she held out her bouquets, and this time the gesture was accompanied by a slow, direct, meaningful nod.
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“Okay,” Cyg said, appearing to settle and steel herself. “So, just the thorns? About how far down?” She made an experimental snip on Shay’s pink, left arm, collecting the little thorn gently in her palm and holding it up by the base in pinched, gloved fingers. It was roughly an inch and a half long. “Like that?”
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Shay didn’t even flinch.

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"Like that," Elisabeth echoed, a pleased note to the words, while she handed a vial to Cygne. As she suspected, Cyg was a natural. A mechanic would have to be deft with her hands, after all.

A brief description and illustration of the maceration process for the poison -- roughly three days total, for Roselia and Roserade thorns specifically -- was summarized as Elisabeth swirled the contents of her vial experimentally, labeling it with 'Yellow Rose - Roselia Toxin' as she placed it back upon the shelf.

She handed a label for Cyg to write upon, explaining, "The code names change, depending on the orders that come in. Sometimes a larkspur order is just a larkspur order. Other times, it's Toxel poison. I usually tell people we are out of stock of the flower in question shortly after receiving the order in advance from headquarters." A brief, fleeting smile. "You start getting used to the regulars, however. You can usually tell which clients are which pretty swiftly."

It was difficult to explain. There was a certain... look in someone's eyes when they were ordering a weapon, that was different than a client seeking flowers to impress a lover, or to grieve someone precious. You just knew.

Or maybe Elisabeth just recognized killer instinct in other killers. A chilling thought, that. She decided not to dwell on that for too long.

"By the by. You and Shay seem to be bonding well already," Elisabeth said instead. "It has been my experience that Budew, Roselia, and Roserade can be rather finicky and fussy Pokemon. It speaks well of your character that the Roserade is already so taken with you."

Though the quality of Cyg's character had never been a doubt in Elisabeth's mind.

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Cyg listened intently as Elisa went through the preparation process for the poison, occasionally jotting down things on a found napkin with a pen she had in her pocket. Her handwriting was atrocious and the shorthand readable only to herself, but Cyg figured that was probably best given the subject matter.
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“Okay, I’ll just need a list and a few days to commit them to memory,” Cyg said of the codenames. She could rebuild a carburetor with no instruction manual, now; there was no way a list of flower names was going to get the better of her.
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“Oh, yeah, Shay’s great,” Cyg said, flashing the Roserade a thumbs up; the Bouqet Pokemon rolled her eyes good-naturedly and looked away, embarrassed at the attention. “Most of my Pokemon are maniacs so it’s really nice to have someone cultured to talk to every now and then. But, I have a Swalot, too, and an Ivysaur, so I don’t know if you have any formulas for them but they could pitch in. Elisabet, too, but I doubt she’d be keen on helping poison people.”
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She made a face. Of all her Pokemon to have a conscience, it had to be her Haunter.
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"By the way, are we going to be doing any actual cleaning down here?

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