"grim, leave it alone!" she crows uselessly as the lycanroc clamps down hard on the jynx's skirt. saskia fears the worst; an ice-type move could do serious damage to maugrim's hide. but it seems too startled to do much more than swat angrily at the lockjawed dog. 

sasky picks up some rocks and throws them at maugrim. one bonks him on the head and she thinks it's more his wounded pride that makes him round on her than anything else. his eyes narrow, lips creeping up and over his teeth as he growls softly in warning. 

the jynx, at least, takes that as a sign to skedaddle. 

"maugrim, you will listen to me. now stay." he does not, in fact, listen to her. and he does not stay. he stalks forward, tail low, ears flat, eyes trained on her. 

she juts her chin out and scowls. his pokeball rests in her hand. if he lunges, she'll just throw him back inside. 

using psychic-type incense

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he does not, in fact, stay. and sasky isn't fast enough to get the ball unclipped either. so she tumbles to the side right as he connects with an eerily silent bird she hadn't noticed behind her. 

but she doesn't think it was attacking her. 

it sounds more startled than anything when maugrim pins it to the ground and chomps down hard on its shoulder. saskia cries out in frustration and grabs the back of his tail, but he's stuck on the bird hard. 

"maugrim, let it go!" and so he does, but only because the xatu pecks him right in the eye. he stumbles back with a squeal and bowls over sasky. 

before he can do anymore damage, she throws a pokeball. 

WILD - PSYCHIC INCENSE
CATCHING

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