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  1. Phoenixsong

    Tenacinde Modareno

    Just a hat and a sash, huh. Could've been worse. Could've been facing down a bunch of actual guards looking like a fresh recruit for the Paw Patrol. Blue gave Esperanza a curt nod as she finished her final checks. "Yeah. Sure. Good luck with your thing, too, I guess." He very much just wanted...
  2. Phoenixsong

    Auranosa Intrepid / Temple of Auriga

    Just their luck that even Auriga herself couldn't give a straightforward answer. There... usually isn't one. You're going to have to get used to it. Oh, well. They'd done just fine finding their own way through before. Why stop now? At least Leona had figured something out. "Nobody asked you to...
  3. Phoenixsong

    Tenacinde Modareno

    Blue had slept... okay. He was properly dry by the time he'd drifted off, at least. And it hadn't been the most uncomfortable night he'd spent sleeping on the ground outside. Except for the part where the reason it hadn't been that uncomfortable was because when he woke up he was still a dog...
  4. Phoenixsong

    Auranosa Intrepid / Temple of Auriga

    Leaf kept her gaze averted for the moment. No yelling, at least. But morbid joke or not, it sure hadn't seemed all that funny then. That was what Leona was like, though, wasn't it. As long as she really was doing better. That was what mattered. "So that weird light's actually him? Lorrel?" She...
  5. Phoenixsong

    Auranosa Intrepid / Temple of Auriga

    Leaf remembered standing on the HQ watchtower that one evening. Watching the sunset view from way, way up there. The split second of desperation in Leona's eyes as she'd looked down. "No one needs to jump off of anything." It came out a lot colder than maybe it should've done, given who they...
  6. Phoenixsong

    Auranosa Intrepid / Temple of Auriga

    For a moment, if she closed her eyes, she almost could see it. Then she opened her eyes and she could. The little flecks of radiance that danced in the corners of her vision stretched up, twirling themselves into the shapes of stairs and columns high up above the point. A whole temple, old as...
  7. Phoenixsong

    Tenacinde Modareno

    The answer didn't matter, in the end. Wherever these people were going, he had to go, too. Couldn't exactly strike out on his own as a baby growlithe in a paranoid country on a fake planet full of impossible dungeons and talking pokémon with guns. Like it or not, maybe getting arrested during a...
  8. Phoenixsong

    Tenacinde Modareno

    Oh, was that all. "And if we're not guard-y enough and payin' the real guys off doesn't work? What then?" Blue asked, glaring disapprovingly at the scratched-out map from his spot by the fire. "What's the back-up plan for when it all goes wrong and the border guards decide they don't like the...
  9. Phoenixsong

    Auranosa Intrepid / Temple of Auriga

    Well, they weren't dead, so that was a promising start. There hadn't been anything at all that night, actually, unless she'd been so exhausted she'd slept through whatever Powehi had wanted to say. Maybe he remembered he owed them and was laying off for now. Or maybe he'd finally developed half...
  10. Phoenixsong

    Tenacinde Modareno

    Roughing it had never been Blue's favorite part of journeying, but sitting down at Esperanza's campsite was a massive relief. Mostly because it was getting to sit down literally anywhere, but still. He plonked himself right by the fire—so close that if he hadn't been a growlithe he'd be missing...
  11. Phoenixsong

    Tenacinde Modareno

    Huh. If El Espeon was excited about Odette knowing his—her?—sister, then that was a point in favor of not getting mugged or scapegoated. Hopefully. Wasn't like they were spoiled for other options here, so Blue was just gonna have to hope this worked out. Maybe get started on practicing that fire...
  12. Phoenixsong

    Tenacinde Modareno

    Another Paldea cat. A... something-gato? And now Odette was asking about some other one? Place was lousy with 'em, seemed like. So now they were, what, just gonna go along with this? Conveniently it's not safe to stay in the next town, but conveniently some random zorrogato named after stabby...
  13. Phoenixsong

    Auranosa Intrepid / Temple of Auriga

    ...oh yeah. That guy. Uh-oh. Leaf stared at Gladion, mind racing as she tried to sort through his panicked rambling. "W-why would he be mad at us? I didn't do anything." That was even at least ninety-nine percent true, this time. (Something digging through her mind searching searching searching...
  14. Phoenixsong

    Auranosa Intrepid / Temple of Auriga

    Oh, this place didn't have what they needed to fix Beetle? Made sense they'd have to go where the parts were, but was was splitting up a good idea? They still had no clue where any of the other Wayfarers had gone... There was still so much to do, though, and Leaf did have a promise to keep. And...
  15. Phoenixsong

    Auranosa Intrepid / Temple of Auriga

    "Weeks? No way! We only just left this morning, how—" Had they been lying in that fancy dungeon that whole time? No, if they'd been unconscious for that long they'd be dead, probably, and yeah she was kinda starving right now, bet she could eat that whole garden back there, but she wasn't, like...
  16. Phoenixsong

    Tenacinde Modareno

    ...Uh-huh. So pokémon were digging failed murder canals and had baronies governed by paranoid tyrants and needed a masked sword vigilante to save them. These were all things that made sense here. Why not. "'Silent'. Right." Blue sat down. Too much effort to deal with... this and stand at the...
  17. Phoenixsong

    Tenacinde Modareno

    They'd been out of the Ninth Circle of Mud for hours now and Blue's fur still wasn't totally dry. Freakin' humidity. "Damp" was a huge upgrade over "actively swimming", though, so he was just gonna have to tough it out it. Actual, not-destroyed buildings inhabited by actually-not-dead-people...
  18. Phoenixsong

    Auranosa Intrepid / Temple of Auriga

    The professor really hadn't understood how badly Leona and Sage had been affected, had she? It felt strange to hear someone who sounded so mature talking like this, struggling this hard with it. (Was she even an adult, technically? She was a copy of an adult's personality, however that worked...
  19. Phoenixsong

    Tenacinde Canal Boneyard

    The holes widened, the mound shrank, and the collection of bones grew. Maybe no thanks to some people, people who'd better be real grateful they were so confused and pathetic-sounding or else they'd be getting a piece of Blue's mind right now, but grow it did. It was hard to tell if some even...
  20. Phoenixsong

    Tenacinde Canal Boneyard

    Blue looked at Gladiolus, more exhausted than anything at this point. "Blue. Viridian City Gym Leader. 'S in Kanto." Huh. He'd assumed Lily—Lillian?—had told him already. They were apparently from Alola, super far away but at least a real, not made up place, but according to that issue of Back...
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