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  1. Jackie Cat

    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    Laura held her warm cider close and listened with delight, the anxiety sloughing off at the realisation that, no, Jade didn't judge her harshly for Malachai leaving. If anything, she'd relaxed a little herself. Now the chat almost felt... peaceful. Nostalgic. "Ouch, that had to be tense," she...
  2. Jackie Cat

    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    Laura blew a nasal chuckle, and nodded. "Yeah, it was pretty dramatic. Galar's so pumped up on sensationalist sports fan juice that nobody bats an eye at, like, stupid crazy entrances, so—" Wait, was she going to explain? Yeah, she didn't know how to back out of this without ruining the vibe...
  3. Jackie Cat

    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    Laura nodded. "Yeah, the corporation that has her is also one of the companies filling the trainer sponsorship gap after Macro Cosmos imploded. Figured I needed the money, and getting a sponsorship means getting a foot in the door to investigate them from inside. Somehow." She sniffed, and...
  4. Jackie Cat

    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    A trainer camp, huh? Sounded like a bigger version of the little community spots Laura had hung out at so often early on. Instant noodles were a familiar necessity. Maybe their starting-out experiences weren't so dissimilar after all. "Oh, uh, thanks," she fumbled, at Jade's validation. Cool...
  5. Jackie Cat

    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    Laura winced a little, and made a mock-grimace at waiting that long. "Uh, well, it wasn't exactly fun or cool or triumphant, you know? Mostly... cold and lonely. I mean, at first there was this brilliant 'fuck-you' feeling of defiance, this sorta 'righteous anger' type of emotion. But it turns...
  6. Jackie Cat

    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    Laura nodded. Jade got it – and she felt like she got whatever Jade was trying to express. 'It' being the emotion you got after a few months post-spacio-temporal displacement in reality. Howls. At least she could get some weird comfort out of someone else mentioning the internet. That was...
  7. Jackie Cat

    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    Laura nodded, and scratched sheepishly at her ear. "I think mine would've been pretty recent too, actually... like, I think Gloom corresponds more or less with December, then Spirits with November, Rot with October... I guess late Rot, early Spirits, somewhere around there? Maybe even Winter...
  8. Jackie Cat

    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    Laura nodded, and pulled a mock-grimace. In truth, it didn't really bother her. Existentially, or whatever. "Yeah, obviously Betel didn't exactly give us an itinerary or anything. Sometimes I wonder if we're going too slow, but then... it seems like we're always just strong enough for whatever...
  9. Jackie Cat

    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    She grinned, relaxing a touch as her babbling – apparently – just endeared her to her friend. Kindof a relief... "I honestly dunno," she admitted, feeling free to be unguarded about it. "But I'm like... this sure that it's related somehow. Humans trying to control and exploit pokémon genes..."...
  10. Jackie Cat

    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    Laura winced with sympathy for Jade. Her world sounded... difficult. Dangerous. If she was talking about the legendaries – her allies – this way, alluding to what they were capable of, it was only too easy to imagine the fear that ordinary people might be feeling. Laura knew what scared humans...
  11. Jackie Cat

    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    There was absolutely no way that was the whole story. But Laura knew another sensitive spot when she saw one. She imagined what 'destroying the facility' might look like from inside it. She remembered the dread feeling in her gut when the skies darkened over Galar. People generally didn't feel...
  12. Jackie Cat

    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    Laura's brain sparked with assumptions and imagined background info. A rebel team with many objectives, only one of which was their true purpose. Uncertainty – distrust of the leadership? The plan was Jade's friend's idea. (Not her own – reflexively downplaying her own involvement?) She shook...
  13. Jackie Cat

    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    Laura's tail fluffed up despite herself. Envy and awe competed in her gut, each overshadowed by sheer curiosity. Her reporter's impulses pressed her to Ask Questions. Find out everything. "Wait, he was born while you were there?" she breathed, ears quivering. "And... Did you? Help him?" She...
  14. Jackie Cat

    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    Jade got involved? She hadn't expected that... Howling hell. Laura grinned, some inhibition in her breaking. She wasn't even using Radiance, it was just... Why be cautious and serious and painstaking when everything was as crazy as it was? "Right then, five quid says I meet Mewtwo back home...
  15. Jackie Cat

    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    Yet. The idea that he would both thrilled and unnerved Laura. "Well, I... I already believed he existed in the first place. Now I know he exists in other worlds, I'd say it was a sure thing. But who knows, right? Like, it's possible that the project was real but unsuccessful, or that he did...
  16. Jackie Cat

    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    Ouch. Jade's reply was understated, but the expression on her face, that tired, , miserable look? This had been a misstep. Laura had asked too early, or in the wrong way, or maybe it was just too huge and awful to talk about at all. "I hope so," she said, weakly. "Good luck." Agonisingly...
  17. Jackie Cat

    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    At that 'we lost', Laura was on a mountain peak, breathing thin air, the energy bled from her in a moment. Howls, they... they lost? She'd just assumed that, however impossible it would be, that.... "Oh— oh... I thought..." That they'd keep fighting? Win somehow? Make a difference? What did a...
  18. Jackie Cat

    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    Rockets...? Like the yakuza clan that were supposedly involved with the Mewtwo project...? The Rocket-dan. It tracked, but parallel universes were parallel universes. Could mean anything. She wondered whether to say anything, but the recognition on her face would probably say it all to Jade...
  19. Jackie Cat

    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    Laura felt the usual lurch at the idea of going it alone against a big organisation and shoved it down. She was just doing her own little thing, they wouldn't even notice her, probably. She'd figure out a plan. It'd be fine. Meanwhile, Jade sounded like her team was barely a team. Howls...
  20. Jackie Cat

    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    The tension in Laura eased up, and she melted onto the table a little, relieved. Maybe even a little self-satisfied... "Guess you needed to hear that, huh." Jade had answered her question. Sortof. Vaguely. It sounded... complicated. Laura could understand that. "I don't really... have...
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