Asking a Morales to not see the best in someone is like asking Rayquaza not to fly - it’s just impossible. Yuina will notice many similarities between the siblings that seems to span through the whole Morales clan; enthusiasm, optimism, unrelenting hope, and most importantly, faith in those around them even when they didn’t believe in themselves.

Eva happens to be completely enamored at the display depicting the Hisuian pokemon and their more present day counterparts. It’s an area she herself did quite a bit of research in and published to public channels. She wonders if Yuina would have read any of her work. It’s in this depth of thought that she is pulled back to reality by Yuina’s soft voice.

The Professor shoots up in surprise and spins on her heels to face Yuina. She greets her with a classic, bright Morales smile, “Ms. Higashi!” she exclaims, holding out a hand to firmly shake hers, “Please, please, just call me Eva.”

She retracts her hand back to her side where she hooks her thumb into the strap of the computer bag slung over her shoulder, “Thank you so much for agreeing to meet with me. I was just taking some time to admire your work. It’s very impressive,” she compliments, gesturing to the exhibit as a whole.

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Yuina Higashi

“Well, it’s a pleasure to finally make your acquaintance in person, Yuina,” Eva finishes the handshake with a peppy nod before folding her hands together around the strap of the bag slung over her shoulder. Her smile brightens, and there’s even a small laugh at the reference to her ‘unique knowledge’, Eva’s words.

A flush rises to her cheeks, perhaps a bit embarrassed by the choice of words, “It’s impressive, nonetheless,” Eva doesn’t pay much mind to the reasons she was a topic of conversation at the last AQUA meeting and why she may be under the suspicious gaze of many higher ups. Eva is a firmly staunch supporter of ‘innocent until proven guilty’. She’s smart enough to take what the DRK triad says with a grain of salt. Their ultimate goal is sabotage and destruction, one could assume they would say anything to tear their world apart from the inside out - starting with distrust. No, Yuina is likely just a pawn in their sick, sick game. They all are, at the end of the day.

“Well, I was hoping you could catch me up to speed on some of the more recent anomalies plaguing Hoenn,” A hand reaches into the outside pocket of her bag while she continues speaking, “I’ve been, well, indisposed for a while,” In a coma, “And I fear I can’t find much information in my studies on these plates,” she pulls out a simple piece of paper. Pictures of various plates obtained from Sootopolis and Petalburg pepper the parchment in neat rows. Illegible scribbles line the margins and spaces between them, “I understand they might have Hisui origin or there may be something similar to them in Hisui myths and folklore. There’s talk of experimenting with them in Sygna Suits and I just can’t condone that sort of negligence without understanding them,” she speaks freely and openly of her colleagues’ experimenting with these plates and Sygna Suits because she does view it as negligent. They still didn’t fully understand Dynergy but they were allowing all these powerspots to infect their region? In her eyes it was like purposefully infecting a creature with unknown diseases and waiting to see what happens - irresponsible and ludicrous.

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Yuina Higashi