”harcourt. good to see you.” alive, after all hoenn had been through in her absence. she had not seen him since her return until now.[break][break]

the two had known little of one another before, but she knew he was good at what he did, and a far better option than most potential partners for these simulations.[break][break]

once they were prepared to begin, she confirmed, ”ready.” and then they were off to the ruins of alph.[break][break]

the walls. the eerie voices coming from her phone, still buried in her pocket. all of it was familiar, from the time she’d been through this with Amor Rose . she felt the memory in her shoulders.[break][break]

”this is an interesting one. i’ve been through it once already.”[break][break]

pulling out her phone, she held it up so the fragmented melodies could heard more clearly. ”sato said the unown communicate through radio waves. they’re talking to us.”[break][break]

looking down the tunnel into the dark, she began to feel the same pull as before. this time, however, she rooted planted where she was.[break][break]

”there are many in these ruins. if we go much further, we’ll be thrown into the walls and the simulation will change. they do not want us here.”

[attr="class","ooc"]Zev Harcourt [break]
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the more there is, the less you see.[break][break]

familiar words. ”i think the answer is darkness, but i don’t understand. what about darkness?”[break][break]

the simulation shifted, and they were in mauville city. she stared at father winter. it was the second time she had seen the drk triad in the simulator.[break][break]

”call it if you like,” she suggested to zev.[break][break]

[attr="class","ooc"]Zev Harcourt [break]
[attr="class","pkspr pkmn-porygon-z"]

lulu’s eyes squinted at the curiosity of father winter’s words. ”the original one?” did he mean the region, or something else?[break][break]

and yet again, it was good they were not perceived. the more she experienced the simulations, the more it became clear that there was something particularly odd about the dark triad’s presence. so far, they’d been the only ones within the simulation to seem aware of it.[break][break]

the unown caught her eye for only a second, but then father winter was gone. she cursed to herself as the simulation shifted.[break][break]

on the tower, the sight of the dragons drew her out of her pondering.[break][break]

”both are important...”[break][break]

she looked at zev, and then back. ”but if it suits you, i will side with ideals, in the spirit of our survival.” the truth of their reality was grim. without hope and ideals, they would perish.[break][break]

side with ideals

[attr="class","ooc"]Zev Harcourt [break]
[attr="class","pkspr pkmn-porygon-z"]

arceus was the answer she had arrived to in her mind as well, after pondering the first time she’d experienced the scenario. zev’s guess only instilled more confidence in her own—though she couldn’t be sure.[break][break]

the battle with the dragons was fought, and with three against one, defeat was inevitable for the older brother and his reshiram. as the relation became apparent, her thoughts traveled to Cillian Quinn and the tension between them.[break][break]

in the end, the light stone was presented to them. she turned it over in her hands, inspecting its strange indentations for what little time they had left in the simulation.[break][break]

”it seems that legendaries often turn into objects when they are defeated, perhaps to rest. i wonder what zekrom would have become, had we chosen differently...”[break][break]

[attr="class","ooc"]Zev Harcourt [break]
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