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POSTED ON Jul 10, 2019 23:01:35 GMT

[attr="class","anyapost"]it's a vacation spot, a halfway marker, nothing more than a pit stop at the edge of the world. people come and go and all around are unfamiliar faces. it's why, when she chooses to meet with others from her line of work, she opts to make her way all the way out here from the mainland.

and, given that she prefers to travel by boat rather than on the back of her newly acquired talonflame (for the very reason being that she's a new addition), these people she's meeting with must be worth the headache they've already caused.

she sips hot coffee from a to-go cup, mouth full of caramel, and then takes a drag from her cigarette to wash it down. shiva and kain sit at either side of her, tails tucked neatly around them, and they appear statue-esque.

her contacts know where to meet her. they'll make their way together into the park first, find a small bench, and she'll pass them by and decide if they're worth her time.

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Goro strolled up to the park, nursing a bottle of water. Betty White followed behind invisibly, the ghost giggling occasionally, while Freddie stalked the shadows. His last, and newest, pokemon was waiting in his pokeball. He was supposed to meet with Sam and then they were... He wasn't entirely sure what they were supposed to do besides sit and wait. He hated it. He'd been waiting for weeks, looking and scanning, with no proper response. It took Sam's smart people connects to actually get them anywhere.

And it got them to fucking Lilycove. Just being here made him feel on edge. The Aether Foundation, for one reason or another, gave him the creeps. Reminded him of Cipher. Another chill ran through him. Where was Sam? They were supposed to enter and sit, together. Hell, Goro was about ready to hold hands and skip through the park at this point.

"Finally." He sighed, as the familiar face showed up. "Let's find that bench."

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It wasn't as if Sam was late. As a matter of fact, Sam was impressed that Goro was early. Sort of made Sam feel a bit uncomfortable considering he'd been the one to 'set up the meeting' in the first place.

"Finally?" Sam nearly mocked. "Is it really my fault you're the one who got her early?"

With a small sigh, dismissing Goro's typical bratty attitude, Sam moved over to the nearest bench as Goro had suggested. He leaned back, crossing one leg over the other, hands in his hoodie pockets, looking out among the people.

"Just take a chill pill, Goro." This guy was always on edge...

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[attr="class","anyapost"]she twirls a finger around long brown longs. black wire-rimmed glasses rest atop her nose, dotted freckles smattered carefully over her nose and cheeks. she wears a professional brown suit, white blouse, yellow tie. her hair, a wig of expensive make, curls over her shoulders, changing the angles in her face.

she didn't recognize herself when she left this morning.

she flicks her cigarette to the ground and twists her heel over it, withdrawing her lions into their balls. she's a good ten minute walk from the meeting place and she takes her time leisurely, taking the time to admire other passersby enjoying their days.

when she comes across the aforementioned bench, both men are seated at it. she stifles a snort. the two stick out like sore thumbs, clearly uncomfortable with the other's presence. so she walks onward, hands in her pockets, and stops short just by the lakeside.

she withdraws a picnic blanket from the purse at her side and settles down on it, following up soon after with a thick paperback. as she thumbs through the pages, she drops a pokeball at her side.

a fennekin pops out and looks up at her inquisitively. she flicks a finger; another ball falls out. envy joins her fire-fox friend and the two tumble over one another in a playful scuffle. they tumble over anya's lap and then chase each other near the bench.

moscow drops something from his mouth in front of the two boys as he passes. two bluetooth earpieces.

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The silver-haired stud followed behind Sam, grumbling and mumbling the entire time. " 'oH yOU'Re EArLy.' " he mocked under his breath before they sat down on a bench. He put the bottle of water down next to the bench before resting his arm on the back of the bench and behind Sam. He narrowed his eyes and gave a look to Sam as he mocked, " 'tAKe a CHilL pILl.' I wish I had some chill pills to take. Gods, what do you think we're doing? On a date? This is work, important wor-"

He paused his rant as a Fennekin walks away, leaving behind two devices. Goro gives Sam a quizzical glance before picking them both up in one hand. He places one in his ear and tossed the other at Sam, not even bothering to see if he caught it. Suspicious, Goro tapped on the bluetooth thingy in his ear and asked, "Hello?"

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The fact that he is mocked comes as no shock to Sam. As a matter of fact, he not only rolls with it, but he just sort of soaks it in and accepts it as Goro simply being a clown. That’s what he is after all. A glorified clown.

The Bluetooth piece that was dropped from a feline mouth and then tossed in his direction almost hits the ground once again. Why? Because Sam’s real bad at hand eye coordination. He nearly drops it about four more times - juggling the piece awkwardly and accidentally until finally he catches it.

The glare he gives Goro could battle the flame intensity of Ho-oh. He doesn’t not immediately place the bud in his ear. He waits to see if Goro passes out or explodes before deciding the bud is safe enough to put in his ear.

Instead of giving a witty response to Goro, he shifts in his seat and places the earbud into his ear, just in time to hear Goro’s awkward greeting.

The smuggler rolls his eyes. ”Why would you be given an ear piece if it didn’t work?”

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[attr="class","anyapost"]first impressions tell anya most everything she needs to know about a person. she's a critical observer, and very rarely deals with anything she decides right off the bat isn't worth her time.

these two characters aren't proving themselves worth her time.

she leans back, one hand splayed behind her to hold her weight, the other outstretched to scratch moscow behind the ears. the fox pokemon sits beside her, leaning into her touch, as her purrloin moves towards the water's edge in search of some fish pokemon to snack on.

"let's get to the point, gentlemen. i don't have all day."

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if she wanted ‘to get to the point’ then he would get to the mother fucking point. “cait the gym leader is being possessed or brainwashed or blessed or whatever the fuck by celebi.” goro stated bluntly into the ear piece. “i witnessed her bring something back to life and have proof; not only the flower she did so with, but the memories of my pokemon.”

at that point the haunter’s tongue would become visible just for a moment or two before disappearing into the realm of ghost. goro added, glancing to sam, “you can take our word, or use psychic pokemon to see what i saw; but regardless, the implications are clear. cait alfric of mauville has some connection with celebi - maybe shaymin? - that allows her to affect nature and time itself.” wow he used lots of big words. and was out. of breath.

goro took a deep breath before looking at sam and muttering, “told you i wasn’t stupid. why do you think i needed that bruxish?”

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"Gods have mercy..." Sam mumbled his complaint while rubbing his forehead, trying to ignore Goro's... well, 'Goro-like' nature of just blerting things out without much thought.

As Goro started to rattle off all the information they knew, Sam nervously glanced around them. Goro wasn't the quietest person he knew and Sam was a paranoid bastard. More importantly, Sam could see Goro slowly losing his breath and that had him smiling. Seeing Goro out of breath after a speech like that made sense.

"I never said you were stupid, I said you were uneducated." There was a huge difference.

As for the discussion with Anya, he only had one thing to add, and it'd probably piss Goro off. "Granted, this is all just speculation."

"We have a flower that Goro saw her revive, yes. Did he see Celebi itself? No, but that's the running theory, is that a grass legendary with the power to turn back the time of an item to the point of it being alive, has somehow gifted cait alfric with these abilities."

His tone and expression clearly read, 'again, just theory.'

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POSTED ON Jul 24, 2019 16:07:49 GMT

[attr="class","anyapost"]and get to the point he does. she takes mental notes as he speaks, analyzing his cadences, the volume in her ear. he's not very subtle. quick to anger. unstable. unreliable. the list of un's goes on and on as he prattles, though she's simultaneously storing his words to memory. and, of course, every word spoken on the line is being recorded.

a trick of the light, a sleight of hand performed by one of her many grass-type pokemon. the possibilities for what he'd seen are endless, and yet...

stranger things have happened. she's been studying @desmond's files, the footage from mossdeep. legendary pokemon have made themselves known to the people of hoenn, and at least one has lent its power to a select few.

'granted, this is all just speculation.'

interesting. her eyes sharpen and she stops her rhythmic scratching. moscow whines and leans into her before losing interest and trotting off to join envy. the purrloin currently feasts on an unlucky basculin.

"i'll be honest with you," she says and examines her fingernails. "unless either of you have cait alfric in your possession, this information is useless to me." she stands and starts to meticulously fold her blanket. then she pauses, clicks her tongue. moscow comes running, tongue lolling.

and then he trots over to where the two gentlemen sit on the bench and begins to whine.

anya gathers her things and then approaches the two, smiling offhandedly. "my apologies. i honestly shouldn't let him run around like this." and then she lowers her voice, reaches out a hand. "the flower, if you will."

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goro felt like he could hear his teeth grinding as he clenches his jaw, listening to sam’s words. ”just speculation.” he had said. sam has been the one who proposed it could be celebi, sam was the one who was so eager to learn more, and that they had this opportunity to gather sufficient resources he backed down. goro glared daggers at the man as he told his story, and only stopped at the professor’s mention of having the gym leader in their possession. he may not have that, but he had something that could help their case. hopefully.

so goro licked his lips before some stranger approached. the professor, presumably, when she asked for the flower. “this one has a flower AND a seat for such a lovely lady.” bucky said in his kalosian accent, standing with a flashy smile as to make room for her to sit. as he rose, goro murmured, “and a quick peek as to how this went down.” his haunter, betty white, has been at the ready since goro had licked his lips. with a wave of her ghastly hands, spectral energy of night shade befell the stranger.

it was green, the color of life, disgusting. the stench of death was faint in the dewey air of the clearing. the stranger would see, feel, taste, and hear what the haunter has seen that day.

a human that was not so human who reeked of grass touched the plant thing - and death no longer lingered in the air. only life, pure and bright; unbound. disgusting. the image of cait alfric bringing the flower back to life would be shown to the stranger.

my human is tricky. sneaky. good human. we trap the grass human. she speaks little before sleep. then i get to play games. a cackle would be heard in the stranger’s mind as she witnessed goro order the haunter to alter cait’s memories with hypnosis and nightmare. how he stole the fabled flower.

only a few moments had passed in the time it took for night shade to take work, and were any others to look, it would appear simply that a kalosian man was offering his seat to a friendly woman. “do give her the flower.” goro urged with a feigned tone of friendliness.

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The order to give her the flower had Sam nearly snorting. He didn't, he just glared at the guy before reaching into his pocket and extracting what he'd been given.

He really didn't get much out of the flower other than when he burned a piece of it, it simply grew back again. Like however it had risen, it was frozen in that state. If he were a bolder researcher, he'd dare to say it was frozen in time.*

"Nice nails." That wasn't a lie, they were nice nails, and Sam was nervous enough to blurt out his own thoughts before bidding the woman farewell. "Have a good day."

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