This is a test, this is (only) a test...

[bleachedtruth]

Don't they have exemptions for Trainers when it comes to school? I thought I needed a note from my mom or something to get out of it. Oh well. At least this place seems pretty cool.

I have only one question! And that is-! ...Uh... Er, that is...! [Dot dot dot.] I forgot what it was. Give me a second.

Comments

1/?

[surpass]

[oh]

Re: 1/?

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[OH]

Re: 1/?

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[OH OH OH!!]

done gsdgdshh

[surpass]

No need to worry, Hilda.

You have time.

[Sup Hilda. Miss this creep?]

<3

[bleachedtruth]

[Holy what. What.]

Ack! N?! Oh, er, now I remember the question. You guys have PE classes here, by any chance?

Re: <3

[surpass]

I'm not sure. If so, I haven't heard of it yet.

[... but that's not as important as what he was thinking.] Why are you here?

[bleachedtruth]

Oh, okay. It's just my favorite subject, that's all.

[Hilda yanks down on the brim of her hat and hides her eyes under it.] For classes. What about you? Why're you here? After the Pokemon League, I thought... well, I don't know what I thought.

[surpass]

[N is quick to mimic the motion.]

... Quite the same reason, but perhaps for different intent. You do not have as much that you need to learn about as I do.

[At least she, well... knows the world.]

[bleachedtruth]

[That earns an alarmed little look from Hilda.]

But that's not your fault! Ghetsis is the one who ruined things. And besides, you're not as hopeless as you might think.

[The Ferris wheel and that final battle in the Pokemon League proved that to her. For all his faults, N does care a great deal.]

[surpass]

I never stated hopelessness.

[He raises his eyes again, hat lifted off of his head.] I had... a strange upbringing. I see no other way to repair this than to see different things and learn what I've missed over the years.

I see a bright future for myself, but that is why I'm here. I am here to advance myself.

[bleachedtruth]

Well, I think that's a great thing. You'll get to experience all kinds of stuff now, not just the bleak side of life. [She smiles faintly up at N.]

...It's sure been a while since we last met. Hasn't it?

[surpass]

... It has been far too long.

[He looks down and attempts to give a smile, as well. He feels a little more awkward than he thought he would be if he met up with her again, that's for.]

It has been... a few months? Yes, I think so.

[bleachedtruth]

[The awkward is to be expected. The last time they met face-to-face, it'd been locked in combat at the top of Team Plasma's castle. To bounce from enemies to friends that fast... it isn't easy.]

Something like that. Eheh. [She rubs the back of her head and laughs uneasily.] It's funny, but it feels like a lifetime ago! But Bianca and Cheren just went right back to normal.

[surpass]

Ah, your friends.

[He remembers them clearly after stalking them like a creeper I mean.]

Have they arrived with you?

[bleachedtruth]

Uh-uh. It's just me, N. No Cheren, no Bianca, no Alder. Nobody.

[Which makes her sad. What's the fun in an adventure if your best friends aren't along to enjoy it? No creeping on my besties, pls.]

[surpass]

And your Pokemon, of course. You couldn't forget them.

[She didn't forget them, right? Hilda please don't tell N you just up and forgot all your sweet, precious Pokemon. >:(]