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  1. Jackie Cat

    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    "Hey, wait—" Laura smacked her tongue. Tch. So much for talking this out or punching him in the muzzle. And he hadn't said anything, which meant... what? That he felt guilty? Scared? That he'd listened and got something through his skull...? What was going through Andre's head right now...
  2. Jackie Cat

    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    Laura could have laughed. Or stared, or sobbed, or lashed out with claws extended. He admitted it. Serial killer. With moral OCD, apparently. And therefore – pretty definitely – impossible to reason with. You couldn't reason most people out of any strongly-held position, in Laura's experience...
  3. Jackie Cat

    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    He didn't leave behind bodies. He just did too good a job to ever get caught. Could he fucking hear himself? Laura heard out the last of Andre's stupid fucking delusional self-righteous arrogant narcissistic bullshit with her paw pinching the bridge of her nose so hard that her claws pricked...
  4. Jackie Cat

    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    Laura followed Andre out, looked around for onlookers, and found the street outside Nina's adequately empty. Good enough. "Idiot," she replied. "I'm not gonna beat you up." She wanted to, but she wouldn't enjoy it past the first good punch or two, not if he didn't fight back. Laura levelled a...
  5. Jackie Cat

    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    Laura scoffed, adrenaline surging in her shaking paws. "Grow the fuck up, Andre. We're pokémon. In fact, you're a species that flirts by headbutting the shit out of other bucks. Are you seriously gonna whinge and moan about a howling slap, after everything we've seen and done here?" "Laura...
  6. Jackie Cat

    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    For a moment, it seemed like maybe Laura would get to empathise with Andre. It wasn't like she'd never seen some horrible shit online and silently wished the perpetrator a karmic consequence. The justice system didn't get everyone, did it? Hell, even Chairman Rose was probably gonna weasel out...
  7. Jackie Cat

    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    Laura wasn't a psychic. Usually she was grateful for that, to be honest. Dark-type suited her just fine – she liked staying inconspicuous, not having to watch her thoughts, being hard to find when she didn't wanna be found. Right now, though, she wished she could tell whether Andre was...
  8. Jackie Cat

    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    Said like it was her fault, and not his for being a creep. She was starting to get a pretty good idea, anyway – the indignant self-justifications and 'big-picture' appeals to the greater good just howled 'utilitarian vigilante'. Everything Andre said after that just served to confirm that...
  9. Jackie Cat

    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    First honest thing you've said to me. Laura returned Andre's gaze, unblinking. (You'd have to be a magneton to beat a cat in a staring contest.) She knew she had the leverage here, anyway – even if he was telling a truth, she still expected him to frame everything to his benefit, and she'd make...
  10. Jackie Cat

    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    Shit, did he mean it? Was he really innocent after all? Laura pinched the bridge of her nose, and reached for a spark of Radiance— "Ben doesn't know my motive, and neither do you, so you have no case against me." That's what he's saying. "I don't know, Andre," she said, adrenaline creeping...
  11. Jackie Cat

    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    Laura blinked. For a moment, she stared back at Andre like a deer in— Damnit. She shook her head clear. One paw scribbled shorthand in her pad, almost reflexively. Some part of her wondered if she'd need the notes to believe what she'd just heard. Did she have this right? To summarise: It...
  12. Jackie Cat

    Frontier Town Nina's Place

    Laura glanced up from her rough notes. Andre. Seeing him, her ears went back. She forced them forward, acting like she'd only been startled, as if she hadn't immediately thought oh shit, it's gonna be about what happened with Ben, isn't it. She ran a claw through her cheek fur as if adjusting a...
  13. 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...
  14. 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...
  15. 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...
  16. 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...
  17. 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...
  18. 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...
  19. 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...
  20. 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...
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