[attr="class","callie2"] "a regirock?"

[break][break] callie isn't as familiar with the legendary pokemon, being only a transplant from johto and kanto. that being said, she'd already spent several months in hoenn, but not even that is enough for her to be able to pour over the exhaustive list of files that are certainly in the league's records.

[break][break] a stream trickles before them and callie leaps easily over onto the first wide stone, holding a hand out for the former councilman to follow.

[break][break] "is that the legendary that was in the battle near dewford? i was stationed in lilycove then, so i didn't get to make it to the battle."

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[attr="class","ooc"] LabbOtdy [break]
TOTAL 791 [break][break]
ALEXANDER STONE [break]
AZ EXPLORE #1

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[attr="class","callie2"] she's a little breathless, out of sorts, but otherwise okay.

[break][break] "yeah," she says, fixing him with a quizzical look. "of course i am."

[break][break] why wouldn't she be?

[break][break] callie looks away from him, and then off the edge of a cliff where the waterfall roars. it's her first dip into the chasm so she doesn't know any better, doesn't know the kind of beasts that lie beneath.

[break][break] "how much do you know about the chasm? do you know what that was - was it just an earthquake?"

[break][break] her brow furrowed.

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TOTAL 655 [break][break]
ALEXANDER STONE [break]
AZ EXPLORE #1

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[attr="class","callie2"] ew. callista.

[break][break] her nose wrinkled.

[break][break] "call me callie."

[break][break] only her mother ever called her callista. astra had always said that her daughter's name was beautiful, lunar, wonderful. and callie hated how much her mother loved it.

[break][break] "josh it is, then - " but her words were also cut off by the sound of a seismic roar. she blinked. "what the hell was that?"

[break][break] unlike josh, callie didn't have the experience of the dangerous pokemon that he was supposedly speaking of. but she'd been in kanto; she was ready for anything.

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TOTAL 143 [break][break]
Josh Devlin [break]
GC MONSTER HUNTER

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[attr="class","callie2"] ah. that was right.

[break][break] probation, ugh.

[break][break] she hated feeling like she was a rookie in boot camp again. it'll breeze by, paxton concordas had told her, though she wasn't exactly sure if she believed him.

[break][break] "well, if you have to fire me later, be gentle okay?" she said instead, letting out a laugh.

[break][break] it was then that the earth beneath their feet gave a sudden RUMBLE, and rather than pull back to hide behind him, callie did the opposite. instinct drove her to leap in front of the former councilman, arm thrown in front, before she realized what had happened. breathlessly, she looked back at him.

[break][break] "you good?"

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TOTAL 568 [break][break]
ALEXANDER STONE [break]
AZ EXPLORE #1

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[attr="class","callie2"] the voice startles her for a minute, and she looks back to see an unfamiliar man and charizard wandering through. it takes a moment to realize that he's who she should be waiting for, but then her shoulders slump and she relaxes.

[break][break] "callie," she says, popping another raspberry into her mouth. she chews, enjoying the way the fruit bursts in her mouth like a starburst. "and that's skoll." she points to the snoozing lycanroc.

[break][break] she tilts her head back to look at him, smiling openly.

[break][break] "you're roy, right? i think you're supposed to be my partner."

[break][break] she pats the seat next to her.

[break][break] "c'mon. plenty of room."

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[attr="class","ooc"] 4_zAq736 [break]
TOTAL [break][break]
Roy Aker [break]
GC RESEARCH STATION

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[attr="class","callie2"] unlike paxton concordas , callie didn't care much for the league. sure, she worked for them because it was good money and because it suited her means, but she wouldn't exactly say she held up a pride flag for it. as a result, there were a lot of names that blurred past. paxton would've probably scolded her - told her that it was part of her job now to know them, especially since he represented her - but she would've shrugged it off.

[break][break] but moments like this, it made her wonder if she maybe should've paid better attention to that pamphlet of paper her former captain gave her.

[break][break] "josh... devlin?" she murmured under her breath, waiting at the designated meeting spot. this was probably a dangerous location, given the influx of paradox pokemon that were cropping up, but as security for the council and higher league authority, it was part of her job to be prepared for this sort of thing. today, she and this so-called "Josh Devlin " were going to go tracking for some of the more dangerous beasts.

[break][break] as she waited, she shot off a text to her good friend MATIAS SILPH :

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hey, do you know a Josh Devlin ?

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TOTAL 78 [break][break]
Josh Devlin [break]
GC MONSTER HUNTER

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[attr="class","callie2"] "will i?" she challenged, her eyes gleaming with competition. "i guess i'll have to look out for your name then, aaron faust ."

[break][break] callie didn't really care much about the gym circuit, not the way other trainers her age did, but she supposed if there was going to be something she did on those long, late night patrols... scouring the web for mentions of a new champion rank trainer beat flicking through the station's boring local news.

[break][break] "fall for what?" she says, playing innocent. "are you scared?"

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TOTAL 727 [break][break]
aaron faust [break]
AZ GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

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[attr="class","callie2"] she can't help it. she laughs.

[break][break] "damn, i hope not. no offense or anything — you lot can kind of be a snoozefest."

[break][break] she thought about Greyson Connors for one, or his friend DANNY HALL . she still remembered the fishing contest that the two had between themselves all those summers ago.

[break][break] "i'm glad you think so highly of me," she says, with a light chuckle. "honestly, i was worried when i took this job up. that i wouldn't fit in and that i'd get fired on my first week. i'm not exactly -" she waved her hand around. "always great at listening or blending in."

[break][break] surely, paxton concordas could speak on that. the woman had a mouth on her.

[break][break] she turned her head, seeking to meet his gaze.

[break][break] "thanks, though. i appreciate you too."

[attr="class","ooc"] wQWGQPSk [break]
TOTAL 527 [break][break]
ALEXANDER STONE [break]
AZ EXPLORE #1

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[attr="class","callie2"] early dusk spread across the sky in hues of orange and pink, casting a beautiful light across the valley's edge. patrol was always boring — a fact that she used to say to paxton concordas again and again, back when they'd had to share post in kanto — but there were silver linings to things like this that made it a bit more bearable.

[break][break] in front of the league's research station, CALLISTA MOON sat with her lycanroc snoozing peacefully by her feet. she was propped up on a wooden box, one leg pulled close to her while the other dangled over the edge.

[break][break] amiably, while she waited for her patrol partner, she tossed a raspberry into her mouth.

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TOTAL [break][break]
Roy Aker [break]
GC RESEARCH STATION

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[attr="class","callie2"] she snorted.

[break][break] "one of the top trainers?" she asked. "hardly - are you better than Melody Miro ?"

[break][break] callie still remembered when she'd met the idol at splashfest, which was years ago. last she'd heard, the elite four had also gotten the champion rank.

[break][break] even so, she was still impressed by what aaron did say. she wondered if Greyson Connors knew these things — that his friend was supposedly as hot and as talented as he said he was. no wonder they were boyfriends.

[break][break] she shook her head at the mention of CIAN MAHER .

[break][break] "nah. name doesn't ring a bell. who's he?"

[break][break] when the question is turned around on her, she blinks then her lips twist into a rougeish grin.

[break][break] "yeah, i battle. i think i prefer my opponents to be people, though." she wasn't a half-bad battler, but she'd been so used to a command that somehow the idea of challenging the circuit felt a little lackluster. "i'm a pretty good wrestler."

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[attr="class","ooc"] N2bOsTiO [break]
TOTAL 594 [break][break]
aaron faust [break]
AZ GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

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[attr="class","callie2"] "oh, do you?" she said, suddenly, with a mischevious glint in her eyes. he made it just so easy. "tell me more."

[break][break] growing up as a kid in the southside of goldenrod, she certainly would've never imagined herself here. chatting up a former councilman and businessman, someone as esteemed as ALEXANDER STONE apparently was. she would've scoffed at the idea — she'd hated snobby, white-collar types just like him.

[break][break] but... for some reason, it felt easy being with him.

[break][break] when she initially took up the job, she'd been nervous that they wouldn't like her. after all, she wasn't as professional as paxton concordas .

[break][break] "what do you appreciate about me exactly?"

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[attr="class","ooc"] sEY0dAPv [break]
TOTAL 410 [break][break]
ALEXANDER STONE [break]
AZ EXPLORE #1

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