How did she possibly do so much traveling in sch a small amount of time? Well, that was all but a question that no one could really answer but Lake Strand hersefl. But as she walked through the streets of Slateport City, backpack far too full of things including her fourty-whatever pound Hoothoot perched atop it, she couldn't help but think about it in general.

She was used to carying weight far beyond what others might want to carry around for even short birsts of time:She'd had to carry quite a number of the supplies for hte shop for her Mentor during their travels and really, if you organized your cargo right you could get a weird amount of stuff to balance. Hooty didn't help this much though.

The hoothoot shifted atop the girl's backpack, her balance shifting as the Pokemon did and she let out a groan. "Stay still up there or walk!" she blurted out to her Pokemon, forced to pull to a stop as the two foot bird let himself fall from her backpack, half rolling on the ground as he landed and coming nearer to what appeared to be a woman with a good few Pokemon. The owl stopped, peering up at the other human that he didn't know in curiousity but saying nothing for the moment, Lake catching up seconds later. "Oh uh.... sorry about him he's kind of a pain." yup. Pain was a good word to describe the bird sometimes, it really was!

@[Kaida Adachi]

Hooty shifted on his talons if that was what you'd called a hoothoot's feet or rather, most visible foot as he eyed the snake Pokemon intently. He wasn't afraid of them not at all! He certainly wasn't going to shy away from them. Maybe they would like some of his riddles! It was, if one were to ask the girl or the Pokemon himself a part of his upbringing that made him unafraid of the snakes, Lake and her mentor had collected more then a few snake Pokemon for the sake of selling:He'd been exposed to them though mostly in cages so seeing ones that weren't aws something new. There was a human with them which didn't really make him any more worried about said snakes so for now, h was fine.

The redhead shfited on her feet to glance at Kaida curiously as she asked who she was, smirking slightly to herself. "I'm Lake, that's Hooty he's a pain in my butt sometimes." she watched the bird eye Kaida's outstretched arm for a moment before deciding to stay where he was, tilting his head-body slightly before glancing at his Trainer. "He likes to run... and likes ridles. Got a lot of Pokemon there I see? that's cool.... can Iask wehre you got them?"

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