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[Video / Action for Azalea]

[The feed comes on to show Apollo in scrubs behind the front desk of the Azalea PokéCenter. It's been a slow day and he hasn't had very much to do besides stand there and think about the problem that the rain is hammering home. He hates to admit it, but it looks like he's stuck having to ask other humans for help on this one.]

Does anyone know how to build a shelter that's good for all the seasons? Ilex Forest isn't mountainous enough to have caves. I was thinking that digging some kind of burrow in a hill would work, but I don't know how to make a roof that would stay up and water wouldn't come through. I know there are mountains here, but do any of them have forests near them? If there's one like that it would be easier to just find a cave there than build a shelter.

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...can't you just stay in a building?

Buildings stink. I want to live in the forest like back home.

But... at least when the weather's bad, you should go indoors. You might get sick.

I've never gotten sick from the weather, but I always had the cave to sleep in back home. I want to find a cave to live in here, or make my own shelter if I can't find a cave.

...did you really live in a cave back home?

[ hm... ]

Are you... are you from dinosaur times? [ that'd actually be kinda cool now that she thinks about it. ]

Yeah. In the forest on the mountain.

I don't know what a dinosaur is, so probably not. [Actually, he's from about 2023, if I worked out the dates right.]

[ disappointing... ]

Oh... then you just live out there because you like it better?

[ this is pretty hard for her to comprehend. ]

I've lived in the forest for as long as I can remember before I came here. I don't get how anyone could stand to live in towns all the time.

[Running water is for wimps. Though Azalea is his least-hated town so far. Much better than Goldenrod.]

Uh, well, there's a lot of good stuff in towns. Like... like people! [ that's a plus, right?

maybe there are people in the forest too, but she imagines there must be significantly less. ]

I don't like being with humans.

Oh. I... I guess that explains it.

[ her tone drops a bit, as she's not really sure what to say to that. ]

Sorry for bothering you.

[ he probably wants to stop talking to her... right...? ]

Most humans, at least.

[Since they're on the topic...]

What are Pokémon to you?

[The million dollar question.]

[ huh. that is an interesting question, and not one she's seriously considered. ]

They're... friends, I guess! Companions to travel alongside.

[ it sounds a bit cliche but that's all that comes to mind. except, oh, right... ]

And they're cute!

[He smiles at her. It's not cliché to him, it's exactly the kind of answer he was looking for.]

You're right. Never forget that, no matter what anyone says.

[ blink. ]

Are there people who say something different?

Lots of people don't care if they hurt animals, but animals have feelings like humans do. Just remember to treat Pokémon like you treat your human friends. Don't make them fight if they don't want to.

What? You... you can't do that! I'd never make him fight if he didn't want to.

[ though she actually pauses to think, wincing a bit. ]

B, but... he's actually kind of lazy...

Some people here do. If you don't then you're a better person than they are.

If I meet someone like that, I'll make them stop.

Good.

What's your name anyway, Mister Caveman?

Apollo.

I'm Makoto.

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