Mayhap it was because she was of Luminose to begin with that she tended to feel more awake in these waning hours. Or maybe it was from a young age she had been trained in a profession where, if you truly did well, you tended to work nights anyway. Or maybe it was simply that on an evening like this, coming down after a performance was incredibly difficult. Even if she was, in many ways, tired after. But that was mostly her body. Her mind was still busy half basking in the afterglow, half self-critiquing any minor error she had found. It was something that she never had been able to shake, even during her break.
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It had just come back in full force ever since she’d had concerts again. Like riding bicycles, you just kind of got back into the groove again. And it meant that she was back to drudging along the restless hours after the concert.[break][break]
Fresh air usually helped. That was why she was here after a quick change into some fresh clothes. Given the residual heat that never completely left a city like this in the summer, she still just sported a black skirt and white blouse combination, her Alolan Vulpix and her Chespin, walking like the proud little knight he was, walking beside her. A young maiden had to protect herself a little at night, after all. Even if she just had sunglasses and a hat for her identity. It probably was not even necessary. People were surprisingly unable to recognize someone they had just seen in full stage costume afterwards in a normal setting.
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It was probably the disconnect between it all, she mused – which was enough to make her fail to notice someone else not really looking where they went. Eve did not exactly crash into the other, but the bump would still at least be enough to send her hat briefly flying – Vulpix immediately going after it as if sensing a ‘fetch’ moment, while her glasses only dislodged a little. Still, as she would find herself briefly dazed, her Chespin would most definitely try to get between the two parties, almost as if on principle.


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Somehow, she did indeed manage to catch herself. She did not catch the hat, but fortunately Chespin, after realizing that the other person involved meant no harm, was already scampering off to collect it. And after a few moments of befuddlement, Evette started collecting herself again as well, taking a few breaths to steady her core. “No, I am…fine, I think.” She did not feel injured at least. And after a light collision like this, there really was no danger of anything worse. If nothing else, this was just a brief consequence of carelessness, but not much more. It was probably meaningless in the grand scheme of things, so she was ready to mostly brush it off.
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But she just wanted to make sure the other did not think any worse of it all. “I probably am more exhausted than I thought I was is all. That sort of thing just gets overlooked when one is getting worked up all evening.” She offered a little chuckle in addition to these words, evidently ready to just let bygones be bygones.


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