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  1. Jackie Cat

    Frontier Town Main Street

    Laura smiled faintly, and decided to commit to the 'stealth scarf' she was holding. Black went well with silver, why not. Who cared what it said about her that she chose the item that made you less noticed – it was a valid fucking combat strategy, and it'd look great on her. "I'll see you at...
  2. Jackie Cat

    Frontier Town Main Street

    "Yeah, for sure. It's easier to see us integrating with the rangers than most other groups we've heard of. They've got that 'people from every conceivable background coming together for common cause' thing going on, which I guess meshes a lot better with us than any distinct cultural groups...
  3. Jackie Cat

    Frontier Town Main Street

    "Hey, nice one." Would she have passed the rangers' test? It felt like the effort she'd put in at Bedaurejo around the same time was 'enough' somehow, but she still couldn't picture the rangers approving of her. Falling short, even in her own head she was always falling short... Fuck. She...
  4. Jackie Cat

    Frontier Town Main Street

    The team was effective, but it had disbanded. Had they lost their leader, or did something else break them apart...? Something like that could easily happen to the party of 'heroic spirits', especially without a real leader... Laura tried on the scarf, and wondered if the hush that descended...
  5. Jackie Cat

    Frontier Town Main Street

    Yikes. 'A bunch of damage' could mean anything from trashing a room, to wrecking a neighbourhood, or worse. She didn't know what kind of world Jade was from, except that it was comparable to her own. She tried not to assume that 'genetic experiments on the loose' was anything like was she was up...
  6. Jackie Cat

    Frontier Town Main Street

    "Eh, who gives a shit?" deadpanned Laura. "I was a couple months in before I got my license, and by then it was hard to care about it except as a practical concern, considering." Considering she was breaking the law going after Salem anyway, probably. Considering enforcement was lax as hell...
  7. Jackie Cat

    Frontier Town Main Street

    Laura laughed, but she didn't think she managed to make it sound like anything was actually funny. It was hard to hide an unhappy laugh. "Really, really late, yeah. I mean, it's normal to start later in Galar than, say, Nippon, but even then most kids serious about training go out at like...
  8. Jackie Cat

    Frontier Town Main Street

    Laura nodded miserably. Shame burned her cheeks and made her whiskers twitch. It wasn't like there was a way to just apply more effort to the problem. Or many opportunities for some idiot like her to waltz into a secure facility (if she could find it) and spirit away a secret project. "Yeah...
  9. Jackie Cat

    Frontier Town Main Street

    She'd been hoping for stories, details, anything concrete – but that was a lot to ask for this early on. And she wasn't sure she had the energy to explain the sheer context for her own stories, which weren't all that exciting anyway, so... "It counts as weirdly fucking similar to what I've been...
  10. Jackie Cat

    Frontier Town Main Street

    Heal from stuff? Were pokémon more fragile in Jade's world...? Or did she mean getting away from their own worlds let them heal from the traumatic shit they were dealing with before, or— Right, yeah. Being human before, pokémon now. Gotcha. "Oh, oh right, yeah. Yeah, no, I'm healing off...
  11. Jackie Cat

    Frontier Town Main Street

    Laura tensed and sighed at once, relieved to hear someone got it, even as the topic put her on edge all the same. "No. No, anyone who reckons they could've planned for what happened is wrong, and there wasn't gonna be another chance after that night." She'd been over it in her head a million...
  12. Jackie Cat

    Frontier Town Main Street

    "Surviving," she replied, with true Galarish irony. Maybe Jade wouldn't know how to read that, though. "Honestly, it's pretty hard to get and keep my bearings a lot of the time? Feels like there's an ever-increasing pile of questions and issues and things we need to sort out." Maybe Laura was...
  13. Jackie Cat

    Frontier Town Main Street
    Threadmarks: [Ch03] ~ Cats Catching Up

    Laura didn't really go shopping, at least not very often. But she had a job with the Gazette and she had some money and clothing here gave you a boost in combat, and there was gonna be a lot of that in her future, it seemed. So she was in Lorenzo's shop – the tailor's – looking at scarves that...
  14. Jackie Cat

    Frontier Town Main Street

    "For you, miss, twenty-five cents." Especially for an expert job, this was a very fair price – about as much as a simple meal. Felin might have expected a charge twice as much. Toru looked as if he was considering something. With his face angled to the side, battle-scars down one cheek were...
  15. Jackie Cat

    Frontier Town Main Street

    Toru looked confused for a moment, then scoffed. He began to neatly put the tools of his trade away, having combed and brushed Felin's loose hairs from her body. "You must be from a remote part of your home country," remarked the Samurott. "When 'mon settle in town and cities, there is great...
  16. Jackie Cat

    Frontier Town Main Street

    "Depends on who you ask, and what you mean by 'highs'," replied Toru. "He oversees the construction of the grand station. A very fine building, to be sure. But does this make better the lives of the common pokémon working there? Better than they had no labour at all, perhaps. But not equal to...
  17. Jackie Cat

    Frontier Town Main Street

    "A worthy calling," rumbled the otter. Then, "My name is Toru. Well met, Felin." He didn't seem to have anything else to say about Felin's profession, but his voice eased up a little, and he set himself to applying some kind of conditioner or gel to Felin's tufts. "I get a lot of patrons...
  18. Jackie Cat

    Frontier Town Main Street

    "Hung up his blade, huh?" repeated the barber. "Odd, for a Samurott." He didn't elaborate on his own use of a blade. Perhaps being a barber-surgeon still 'counted'. Perhaps he could also fight. "Barber-surgeon's a common enough living," explained Samurott. "Razor-edged steel is expensive – and...
  19. Jackie Cat

    Frontier Town Main Street

    Samurott's muzzle wrinkled in offense and confusion. What was wrong with his moustache? "I don't see it either, miss," he replied, evenly. "Unless you have some hidden talent with a blade. Or as a swimmer." The barber-surgeon himself busied himself lathering Felin's cheek-tufts. The foam had a...
  20. Jackie Cat

    Frontier Town Main Street

    "Hmph. Let me take a look." Samurott unceremoniously lifted Felin into the chair and examined her cheek-tufts with a flipper. "Huh. Fur. Thought you'd have leaves, by the colour and smell of you." He sniffed, and stroked his exceptional moustache. "Alright. Neater whiskers. As you say. Still...
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