009 [audio] - backdated to yesterday

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I was planning to start this year on foot. While Violet has been kind to me, I'm sure Johto has a lot more for me to see.

However, I've been stalled by the appearance of a Xatu. I know she answers to Misty, but I never got the name of her owner when I met her. If anyone has any information about where to find this girl so I can return her bird, I'd

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[Video]

[foolishwren]

Another disappearance, huh.

[It's not the first time she's heard of people vanishing and their Pokemon finding others.]

[Video]

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[You might hear a sigh.]

It's possible. I'm starting to assume that's the case, despite hoping otherwise.

[Video]

[foolishwren]

It happens a lot.

[Heather's tone sounds dreary.]

It's probably what happened to this person, too.

[Video]

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Sounds like you've lost a lot of people this way.

[He doesn't like the way it sounds - in the real, normal world, disappearances were just never ... this ominous, somehow. There was just no telling what happened to these people.]

[Video]

[foolishwren]

Me? I-- ... a couple, yeah.

[One in particular. The others... had mostly just been faces in a crowd. They'd been OTHER peoples' loved ones. Not hers.]

[Video]

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I'm sorry.

[He exhales slowly, suddenly feeling very tired.]

I'd tell you to care for the ones that are left, but sometimes they don't seem to be enough.

[Video]

[foolishwren]

[She sits up straighter, her voice actually hardening.]

No. I've got more than enough here.

[She was done not appreciating the things that she had.]

[Video]

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[That earns her a small smile, like he appreciates hearing it.]

That's good. I'm glad.