♕ 001 // Action for Route 29

[lackingbeauty]

What the 'ell is goin' on 'ere? Use this damn thing fer wha-

[The video feed flicks on to show a woman's face far too close up, brow furrowed, looking quite disturbed.]

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[Switching from text to video, she apparently doesn't know what the hell to do with the Pokegear either.]

Dagger? Wendy? Peter? Jumbo-

[The video is shaky, and only shows... a rather ponderous bosom.]

Doll? Snake?

- Joker?

[She waits, as if for a response. But the only sound is wind rustling through the trees and grass.

Another minute, before the video feed moves too fast for the feed to really pick up- grass, grass real close, black.]

... I'm goin' mad.

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[lackingbeauty]

[Beast was doing a lot of blank, disbelieving staring recently.

She just.

Slides the pokeball back in to her pocket.]

- Right. 'Course they do, I ought a figured that one.

[pipers_son]

[A bit helplessly, Joker gives a "I didn't make the rules" shrug.]

This place is fulla surprises. [Wait until she reads the date on one of the newspapers.] I only found out myself 'cuz I was fiddlin' about with things without a clue ta what I was doin'.

[lackingbeauty]

[She wished he had, because it would make way more sense.]

... Can all the surprises wait till the mornin'?

[Because her forehead had somehow found her palm, shaking her head.]

[pipers_son]

'Course. We can stay here in this town for a while. It's a quiet place, you'll like it.

[There's a pause, and then he twists a bit to set the water bottle between them so he can reach out to touch Beast's arm.]

Warm bed an' good food is all two of us need ta focus on for now, yeah? But we can stay out here a while longer if it pleases ya.

[lackingbeauty]

[She hates this.

It's foolish to repeat that thought, to dread on how foreign and overwhelming she was finding this place, but the repeated reminds of things that to her seemed weak made it impossible to do anything else.

She hated that what she'd done, watching him go and then seeing him again so soon after she'd been so foolish-

She ought to say it. Right now, when she had the courage.

Except she didn't have it.

She reached out without making eye contact to grab hold of his arm, more his sleeve, pulling her hand down to shield her eyes. More to hide how upset she was from him than anything else.]

- Yeah.