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[the_very_best]

Morning - early morning, as it's always possible some phenomenon will only appear before sunrise in a way that she can't find simply by staying up past dark - finds Bella having let herself out of the Tower (conscientiously not letting any Porygon out into the wilderness). She never walks if she can help it. Fireflower is much more surefooted, and enjoys the exercise more. She hauls herself up onto the Rapidash's back.

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[the_very_best]

"...Sweet," comments Bella. "I'd hit you up for access, but the guild does have a full set of the HMs and I got the last TM I decided I needed a few months ago."

[bitofafiction]

He grins. "It's very convenient, yes."

[the_very_best]

"My parents are kind of dull. My father is a cop and my mother teaches kindergarten and when school lets out for a break she tears around all over the country pretending to be a full-time trainer. She's not a very good trainer, but she's enthusiastic and her 'mon love her."

[bitofafiction]

"Well, that's adorable," says Sherlock.

[the_very_best]

"She does have a bit of the adorable about her, yes. Charlie - my dad - has standard-issue cop 'mon, doesn't catch or recreationally battle. He's not that into it, doesn't name 'em or anything, but the standard-issues are all about the job anyway so that works."

[bitofafiction]

"What are the standard-issue cop 'mon?"

[the_very_best]

"There's a few species that adapt well to the work. Charlie in particular has a Noctowl and a Machoke, pretty regionally popular evolutionary trees - I think down south Growlithe are a big deal for police."

[bitofafiction]

"Oddly enough, I'd heard of the Growlithe, but not the others."

[the_very_best]

"I guess you haven't tangled with cops much," laughs Bella.

[bitofafiction]

"Were you previously getting the impression that I had?" he laughs.

[the_very_best]

"Not a bit. How'd you know about the Growlithe, do you watch those terrible Kanto procedural shows?"

[bitofafiction]

"I have seen one," he says. "I gave up fairly early, but the Growlithe did make an impression."

[the_very_best]

"They're by far the most charismatic characters. Charlie doesn't watch them, but Renée likes those shows now and again and I can't see the appeal at all."

[bitofafiction]

"I am in your camp on this one."

[the_very_best]

"I watch tournaments, it's more fun when you can see them instead of just hearing the play-by-play, but otherwise I'm not much of a TV person at all," says Bella. "You've got a nice library, I found it yesterday evening. Helped myself to a copy of The Whispering Trees."

[bitofafiction]

"We have a very nice library," he agrees. "Whispering Trees isn't bad. Have you read it before?"

[the_very_best]

"I read about two chapters of it once, and then something distracted me, and then I forgot about it. I managed to finish the whole thing last night."

[bitofafiction]

"Congratulations. I hope it was enjoyable."

[the_very_best]

"Quite. I like old books. Even the weird genre fiction with no Pokémon anywhere. It's like authors a few thousand years ago resented them or something."

[bitofafiction]

"Or something."

[the_very_best]

"You have a different idea?"

[bitofafiction]

"Some of the imaginary creatures from those old books are... oddly consistent."

[the_very_best]

"Some of the fictional Pokémon that appear in modern fantasy crop up in a lot of different authors' works, too," Bella points out. "If there's a way to evolve an Eevee into a Spectreon, no one's discovered it yet, but that doesn't stop every hack novelist from giving their special snowflake a way to do it."

[bitofafiction]

"Never mind, then."

[the_very_best]

"I'm not saying I don't wanna hear your theory, I'm saying whatever your theory is probably isn't the only explanation."