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She hears a command issued for the Elite Four, and Pesephone's head jerks toward Olivia Abbiati as though pulled by a leash, barely able to make out the silhouette of the silver-haired woman through the smoke. [break][break]

Persephone swallows and shifts her gaze back to her colleagues, watching as Bailey voices her response to the councilwoman before she could. The strange glowing ball (head?) is passed between the other two Elite Four and their dates (?) and then it disappears somewhere where she can't follow because her eyes sting. [break][break]

Bailey sets off into the air after the creature as it moves, and Persephone sets her jaw. She's been here before - the wormhole, the foreign beast, Bailey, Mossdeep. Olivia won't see Persephone shake her head at the order. What she will see is two bursts of light as she exchanges one Pokemon for another and sets off into the air. [break][break]

Reuniclus disappears as Drifblim takes its place and Persephone points to Bailey as she wraps her hands firmly around one of its arms and the duo set off, a TAILWIND at their heels. [break][break]

She's not made for evacuation. She's made for adrenaline. [break][break]

The glowing ball reappears, this time closer, hurtling toward her. Usually she would have flinched or pulled away but there is no time for this. She contracts her torso and stymies the ball - kicking the ball forcefully as far away from her as possible. She wasn't aiming for anyone, and maybe if she stopped to think, she would have picked a better target. [break][break]

The head (the ball?) is flung toward @nicole.
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» is following Bailey Cooper bc the e4 stick together[break]
» returns reuniclus and releases drifblim[break]
» drifblim uses TAILWIND to assist her and Bailey Cooper's ascent[break]
» sees the ball come towards her and knocks it away, accidentally sending it toward @nicole [break][break][break]

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There are still things unseen: the lonely sea, the sky

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The idea was to come alone. Solitude suits Persephone, like a well-worn veil. [break][break]

She wanted to lose herself in the crowd, consciousness disembodied in the crushing sea of bodies. It's naive to think it would work, of course. Even if thick scarves and a heavy coat cover her distinctive series of etched tattoos, she can see the occasional turn of heads and spattering of whispers in her wake. [break][break]

Persephone puts up her hood, pulls the scarf tighter around her throat up to her mouth, and wonders why she feels shame prickle underneath her rib-cage. [break][break]

Her Reuniclus bobs along at her side, more interested in the numerous food stalls than his trainer, periodically tugging at the fabric of her coat to indicate at desserts that share a jelly-like consistency with him. Persephone dutifully buys whatever the Pokemon wants, if only to avoid causing a scene. [break][break]

Persephone snaps to attention when she hears a sound somewhere overhead - something familiar, something that forces her body to seize up momentarily. She searches the dark sky, willing herself to be wrong when she sees the telltale wormhole ripping itself into existence. [break][break]

Persephone inhales sharply, meeting the gaze of her Pokemon, as the beast emerges and casts them all in an array of multi-coloured lights. Her limbs buzz with adrenaline static as she watches its every move, expecting it to throw the 'head' it removed off its shoulders into the crowd. That would be too simplistic, wouldn't it? [break][break]

As the head expands, she's backing up, wide-eyed and murmuring a precautionary order to her Pokemon ("LIGHYT SCREEN and REFLECT, please be ready to PROTECT,"). [break][break]

A point to be highlighted and underlined: Persephone Amavi hates being right more than she hates being wrong. [break][break]

She's inching towards a handful of people preparing their own Pokemon, thinking she recognises a council member, when the blast detonates, sending plumes and shrapnel their way. Persephone catches the flickering sheen of her Reuniclus's defensive walls, but the smoke still burns her eyes. [break][break][break]

» reuniclus stacks up defenses of LIGHT SCREEN, REFLECT and PROTECT on itself, perse and whoever needs it / npcs[break]
» standing close enough to benefit from Orion Lykos and Balder Schwartz's wide guards[break][break]

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There are still things unseen: the lonely sea, the sky

[attr="class","test2-tagged"]kyle lopez