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[ July 14. 10:34 A.M. ]
[ The phenomenon of Pokémon appearing in his PC was something Miles was growing used to. Finding a Rapidash among his Pokémon when he went to switch out his party, he realized, was no longer the mystery it was when he first learned about the Eevee that Elizabeth Middleford found months ago, though it never came without surprise.
He was most shocked when he discovered who the Rapidash had originally belonged to.
It was in small text in the information box as he scanned the computer, cramped in with all of the Pokémon's statistics and skills: the familiar name of a person Miles had grown close to and fond of. Her name, attached to a creature whose appearance told of the disappearance of its original trainer more often than it did not, triggered Miles' stomach to sink.
He'd returned one of his Pokémon already, but he shuts off the machine without remembering to take one out. Silent, but with Pess and Pip following at his heels, he steps out of the Pokémon Center as if in a trance. His eyes are glued to the ground; he doesn't look up until he finds himself seated on a bench by the seaside, Pip hopping onto his lap and Pess lying down to wait for her trainer as well as to laze in the sun.
Still without a word, he pulls his gear out of his pocket, dialing Franziska von Karma's number. ]
The number you have dialed is no longer in service. Please hang up and try again.
[ He redials. ]
The number you have dialed is no longer in service. Please hang up and try--
The number you have dialed is no longer in service. Please hang up and--
The number you have dialed is no longer in--
[ Rinse and repeat, over and over until he's interrupted by Pip's excited barking, tiny paws scrambling across his lap and jumping off the bench. Pess follows her pup to the cluster of bushes near the bench, and Miles leaps to his feet to hurry after the Growlithe as well. ]
Pip, what are you--? [ But the rest of that questions falls into silence when he reaches the bushes and sees what is there. ]
[ July 14. 1:13 P.M. ]
[ The audio message reaches the network in the early afternoon, a short, quiet transmission from that bench by the sea. ]
I think there was a number of people she spoke to while she stayed here, so this is a message to anybody who knew her: Franziska von Karma has returned to her world.
[ He doesn't like it. He's scared for her. He's going to miss her and he already misses her. She was family. They were closer here than he was with the younger Franziska back home. It was like losing Gregory all over again. Somehow it hurt more than anybody else whose disappearance he learned of.
He'd been out here for hours now, but he feels no motivation to get up and return to the hotel as of yet. Anybody who comes looking for him, or passes by, will find a grey-haired boy sitting against the railing, his back to the sea, with Pess, Pip, and another, bigger Growlithe--Sirius, the second Pokémon Miles met during his whole time in Johto, and Pip's father--all sitting around him. ]