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Though she hated to admit it, Allegra Burns was tense. Oh, the issue wasn't the prospect of meeting an important figure in itself, as she'd done so a thousand times before; she could have navigated the protocol of such meetings in her sleep. Rather, it was the reason for her contact's importance that unnerved her. As a Rocket admin, he knew her name in full, including the maiden name she'd abandoned years ago. She doubted that he would sell her out to the League — for what gain, when he was sufficiently dedicated to Rocket to have risen high? —, but it was enough that he could if he was so inclined.

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The violinist halted in a space still outside the lounge, bringing out a hand mirror to check on her hair, jewelry and make-up. Even though she'd ensured that her looks were impeccable on the way here, one could never be too sure. Pocketing the mirror, she took a breath, composed herself, and went inside.[break][break]

"Good evening, Mr Westcliff," she said with perfect elegance, showing no hint of her true emotions. "Thank you for taking the time to see me."

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Allegra reacts to the girl's compassion with only a small nod and a quivering smile, lest she show any more vulnerability than she already has. Vespa's musings on another's presence in this cave register as no more than a reference to the hallucinations, the violinist failing to realize that her partner isn't caught in the throes of them.

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Quite suddenly, the world changes and she's freed — only to become ensnared by something else altogether, without even noticing as it happens. She's too caught up in the adrenaline of riding this spectral horse, in the physical effort required to stay atop it even as it fights against her weight. No matter how powerful it might be, her will can and must prevail. Their struggle for dominance is almost a duet in its ebbing and flowing, the tides changing with every passing moment, until finally the Spectrier's will is broken and it stills beneath its rider.

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With this unsettling ritual finished and the ghost tamed, Allegra remembers her partner's words from earlier. The young one has more courage — or else more foolhardiness — than she thought. The coordinator returns Vespa's smile at last.

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"Well then, you'd better get on too," she says with a light chuckle, offering the girl a hand; the other, she runs through the Spectrier's mane as it paws the ground. "Hold on to my waist tightly, as our ghostly friend here is eager for a gallop."

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Well, that... was certainly an unique way to go about a self-introduction. Even if this man was famous online — which she didn't have the slightest idea about —, the violinist would've expected him to at least mention his name along with that moniker. It didn't matter, though. His online nickname didn't ring any bells, but his voice did. She'd never spoken to him, whether as Amaretta or any other alias, but she'd overheard him speaking to other Team Rocket members before.

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There was no way Allegra could say that, though, not while at an ordinary café under her real name; to say nothing of the lengths she'd gone to in order to keep her civilian identity hidden even from most other members of Rocket. She had a career to keep, and by the look of things so did he.

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"Possibly," she began, then cut herself off as a waiter arrived with her slice of cake and iced coffee. "Ah, thank you," she told the server, who then asked if he should fetch another chair for the madam's company. This was becoming more awkward by the second — but Allegra was nothing if not graceful. "Please do," she said smoothly, smiling at the stranger as though they were friendly. "Have you decided on your order yet?"

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Allegra is, she will own up to it, idling away the time at this café. A breather in between her performances is more than welcome, and so she's found herself a cozy seat at an outdoor table, placed her order, and now her attention is half on her phone screen and half on the people passing by.

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She chuckles at a meme her wife has sent her, wishing they were here together, then lifts her eyes just as another patron comes into view. How odd. Somehow, he looks familiar.

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It's strange and amusing at the same time, to be the one recognizing rather than the one being recognized. Although this isn't recognition per se, is it, when she can't actually place the man?

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Her wife would have had a witty reply to that.

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Maybe it's the loneliness that causes her to speak up, or the boredom, or else the amusement that still lingers. Maybe it's just curiosity. Regardless of the reason, by the time she thinks better of it she's already halfway through the words.

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"Excuse me, sir? Have we met?"

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There were few things Allegra loved more than swimming through the Water Routes, moving as one with her Pokémon. She seldom had the chance to do so given her busy schedule, and as such her goal was to enjoy herself first and foremost. She had never been Champion material, anyway, and her days as a Top Coordinator had come to an end when she'd denounced the Fisk Conglomerate. She was happy as an ordinary coordinator, though, and of course as a violinist. Noemi couldn't ruin her talents, not any more than her love for the waters.[break][break]

Allegra shook her head as though to clear it, droplets flying from the waves of her hair, and took a breath before submerging. It was peaceful in the depths, and she smiled as her Primarina approached, seemingly wanting to show her something from how it nudged at her. She swam onward, letting Cadenza lead the way.

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Her sister definitely doesn't speak like that, a small reassurance that's bolstered when the girl's name resounds. Vespa, the coordinator echoes in her mind like a prayer. Ugh, her head is pounding — pulsating to the tempo of that cursed stone, though this too might be her imagination — she's drenched in sweat again, but cold this time, and there's a presence just as icy she can't see — Allegra looks away from the stone, the girl as well, her gaze settles instead on a common stalagmite, on her own pale and wide-eyed face, distorted on the rock's surface but still shameful.

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Suddenly it's her mother she sees there instead, and it doesn't even seem like an hallucination. She's the spitting image of that woman, and besides she's told herself the very words Noemi now speaks countless times: You are a Fisk. Act like it. She isn't, not anymore, but her flight itself only ever happened because she is her mother's daughter: self-assured and self-serving, ruthlessly calculating, never one to be controlled but to control. She has all of her mother's beauty and all of her nature, even if tempered by compassion.

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"I'm fine, thank you," she replies evenly, the glazed look in her eyes giving way to cool self-possession as she takes her kerchief out again and wipes at her sweat. What a disgrace. "I had a... momentary lapse of judgment, you could say. I apologize."

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With a smile the coordinator adds, "My name is Allegra. It's nice to..."

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She trails off as the scenario collapses and builds itself anew before her eyes. There's just enough time to make sense of the frantic villager's words before the specter itself appears, rendering her weak once more. Allegra clenches her hand around the kerchief, looking at the ghostly mare with a storm in her eyes.

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Without hesitation she steps in front of Vespa to shield her bodily, though she has nothing with which to drive the mare off, nothing to hand but a drenched square of linen. Yet she has her pride, intangible but inextinguishable. Though Allegra has always strove to distance herself from her mother's legacy — she was always, unknowingly, embracing it. Now she does so fully and consciously, a perfect mirror of Noemi Fisk at her harshest and most unyielding.

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"Stay back," she all but commands the girl, letting her kerchief fall to the ground as she closes the distance between herself and the beast. Its aura drains her more up close, yet this only serves to steel her resolve.

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"I've enough phantoms of my own," she addresses the horse directly now, halting at just the right angle to mount it, "and I haven't bent to them. I won't bend to you, either." She vaults herself onto the Spectrier in one single, graceful motion. "It's you who will bend to me, ghost."

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POSTED ON Sept 29, 2024 13:34:41 GMT

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Allegra found it difficult to believe that there existed any manner of riding challenge that Shalin would struggle with, as the other woman was a true wildcard of a Pokémon Trainer; which she'd made plain in a matter of minutes, no less. Still, the violinist nodded along out of politeness if nothing else.

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She leaned over to look at the map afterwards, giving the ranger captain another nod. "Very impressive," she agreed, although in truth she was even more worried about this impromptu exploration now that she had seen the layout of the ruins. Before she had a chance to protest again, Shalin was already gone.

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"Oh, I am not ready to dive," she lamented to her Milotic, though dismounted all the same. He lowered his head to nuzzle hers, and Allegra sighed. "Thank you, mio bambino. Be gentle, would you?"

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Water Pulse was, of course, fundamentally ungentle. Still, the landing wasn't so bad even though it left her body aching: An Araquanid and a Corsola were down below, and the latter in particular took a shine to her immediately. She gasped as the Coral Pokémon not only approached but also tugged at her hand.

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"My, how darling," Allegra said, bending to pat the wild Corsola, but it merely pulled at her hand once more. As Adagio joined her, realization suddenly struck. "Oh! Have you met a Primarina?" At the sound of Corsola’s cry, she smiled. "I appreciate your willingness to help. Perhaps... You would like to officially join the three of us?"

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— Bingo prompt: Wildcard [break]
— Catching Corsola

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Privately, Allegra thinks that this girl has the right idea; the Cyclizar, too, are avoiding contact with the pulsating, stone-like object. Despite that she doesn't turn away from it herself, as she has to face the stranger to reassure her. Except that this is no stranger but her little sister — then again, she's been gone for so long that Vitalia might as well be a stranger — she has no regrets, yet her chest squeezes with guilt and love all the same.

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"No need to apologize, mia cara, it's alright." With her free hand Allegra pats the girl's shoulder, more relieved than she can say at the fact that Lia doesn't seem to resent her. She wants to embrace her sister, but it'd be too fast; too forceful. Instead she holds the kerchief out again, smiling when the girl finally takes it. "That should help you feel better."

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When Vitalia goes on, though, her smile fades and her brow furrows. Her sister... doesn't speak like that, does she? It's been so long. Abruptly this face so like her own flickers and changes, the girl's eyes still green but everything else about her unfamiliar. In the next moment Allegra sees her sister again, then the stranger, and then she slides her eyes shut with a small sigh.

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"Yes, I see what you mean," she murmurs in the darkness, though Vitalia's face is burned into the back of her eyelids. A thought occurs to her and her eyes snap open, the sea within them roiling as she grips the girl's shoulder urgently. "Your name," is all she says.

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After a moment she manages to add, more evenly, "I need to know your name."

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[attr="class","ctag"] # Vespa Baskerville

— Steel your mind: Proceed to Stage Two [break]
— Bingo prompt: Contact

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Upon entering the cave, Allegra is relieved to see that it seems safe enough. Now that she has a moment to catch her breath, the woman registers for the first time just how young her partner in this simulation is — about Vitalia's age, maybe, or at least the age Allegra remembers her youngest sister as. Despite the years and the distance, she can't help the sudden, overwhelming desire to protect this complete stranger.

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"Thank you," she answers primly, dismounting and producing a handkerchief from her pocket. With one hand she lifts her hair, wedding band glistening in the strange light of the cave, and with the other she dries the nape of her neck.

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"I haven't, no," she replies, now dabbing at her face and forehead, her breath evening out while she does. "Have you?"

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Allegra pockets her kerchief and pulls out a spare to offer the stranger. Being sweaty and hot is no less gross in a simulation, although the girl herself doesn't seem to mind much as she's already moving deeper in —

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"What's the matter?" She asks, alarmed, catching up with the handkerchief still in hand.

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Oh, she sees the matter now. Cazzo. Yet Allegra is the adult here, the elder sister — for a moment the stranger's hair seems green in the dimness —; her composure mustn't waver.

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"Careful, don't go out again! Let's just stay where we are for the moment."

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— Bingo prompt: Protect

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Allegra isn't sure of what she was expecting from this simulation deal, but being flung into what appeared to be ancient times wasn't it. Still, she takes her new mount and the surrounding jungle in stride despite the heat, smiling at the other person — also riding a Cyclizar — with her usual grace.

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Then, an explosion sounds.

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She bends forward on pure instinct, nearly touching her mount's neck as it begins running for their lives without command. Real or not, this scenario is unnerving, though Allegra supposes it's also an anomaly worth studying.

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When the path diverges, the stranger looks to her for guidance. The coordinator doesn't hesitate: Though not a survivalist, she is a quick thinker — and the choice before her is easy.

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"There's no hope of outrunning the debris," she shouts back, already steering her Cyclizar in the direction of the cave. Its interior might be unsafe too, but she'd rather take her chances with that than face certain death. "We must take shelter!"

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[attr="class","ctag"] # Vespa Baskerville

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Allegra simply nodded her head in agreement at first, though when the other Milotic decided that a demonstration was in order she only just managed to keep her surprise — and the stab of fear that went through her — from showing. If not for her many years of experience in maintaining perfect composure, she might well have shrieked at that sight. If nothing else it was clear that Shalin had a talent for this and Levy too was enjoying himself, or so it seemed. For her part, the coordinator stroked her own Milotic's head once more; whether to calm him or herself, she wasn't sure.

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"You've more than earned the right to call yourself that," was Allegra's only comment, with a small smile that widened as they went on to discuss coordination. "Why, thank you. I've never considered Pokémon Contests to be all that difficult, myself, but I have always had a talent for the arts. I enjoy them greatly." She made no mention of how a thing as simple as her enjoyment was a form of defiance, let alone of how merely participating in contests was a way to regain her agency. In fact, she banished all thoughts of her family as soon as they surfaced. "I can't say I'm familiar with the Mauville City Gym. What do you mean by... an animal, exactly?"

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She would much rather have stayed here and kept up amiable conversation, yet Shalin was already leading the way into the ruins. Resigned, Allegra spurred her own mount to follow, though the Ranger's reassurance had done nothing to assuage her concerns. Even with their Pokémon the party was still small, with only six members — and that was counting the presently absent Cadenza.

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For all her worry, though, Allegra had to admit that she was impressed by the ruins. She craned her neck this way and that, taking in every detail of the gorgeous architecture and showing her awe openly, if discreetly. "I will have to compose a song in honor of this place," she murmured, more to Adagio than to Shalin, only half-listening to the latter's words.

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"Yes, I assumed you had a map," Allegra said, absently, her eyes still on the towers. They were marvelous, so much so that even the implication that Shalin would have led her here without a map didn't phase her. It barely even registered. "This place... It must have been here that a legendary Pokémon once dwelt, if the stories are true."

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— Bingo prompt: Six

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POSTED ON Sept 28, 2024 2:43:49 GMT

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Allegra's gaze lingered upon the vacant saddle and she felt the sudden, keen urge to ask why on the gods' green earth the woman hadn't at the very least moved it. This looked dreadfully unsafe, to the extent that merely looking was enough to make her nervous. Still, judgment was terribly unbecoming. This strange arrangement clearly worked for the pair, and so it wasn't any of her business. The violinist looked away, downwards, and stroked the scales of her Milotic.

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"Well, I hope you're enjoying the experience," was all that Allegra said, with sincerity despite her misgivings. "Oh my, a Ranger? Quite the noble career path. I'm Allegra Burns, a coordinator, and this —" she gestured towards her own Milotic, "— is Adagio. It's a pleasure, Shalin, and of course Levy and Shadraz."

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As the woman went on, though, her calm demeanor gave way first to curiosity and then to alarm. Not on her own behalf, no, as much as on Cadenza's. Surely the Primarina would know better than to go that far into the cavern alone, though... Surely.

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"Are you quite sure it's safe for an... exploration party to consist of so few people?" Allegra asked, remaining composed thanks to her many years of practice. "Although, even if it is, I have never ventured into ruins before... I will accompany you as I must reunite with my Primarina — but I can't guarantee that I will go all the way."

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