Clover
neither simple, nor coherent.
It's impressive how much retconning there can be in something with very little material! ... Or possibly the anonymous narrator has no memory and is only actually coherent if you ask. It's a mystery. And given that the clefairy were teleporting you from space, really they did pretty well! It's hard to be accurate when the ship's moving and the world's moving and they're moving at different speeds and directions. Given that you didn't land as a circle with a five mile radius, they're so awesome and you should give them many many hugs except not really because they will probably Meteor Mash you. But you definitely owe them one. ... well, they probably think you owe them one, anyway.
He jumps when he notices you and stops sulking, then starts to reach for a pokéball after seeing that you're Not Happy, possibly insane, and with Not Happy pokémon, but he stops and accidentally drops a few bottlecaps. Life sucks.
"I have no idea what you're talking about --!" he starts to say while you rant, but he seems to decide that maybe he should just ... let you rant. Even though he'd much prefer it if you took out your horrible day of horrible horrible alien abductions (IT COULD BE WORSE!!) on someone not-him. ... Also, his expression makes it pretty clear he thinks you're 87% crazy. (It'd be higher, but he's familiar with clefairy ships. ... Also with greys. He's intimately familiar with greys. He is best alien.)
After you finish, he sighs and says, "One sec!" before he runs (surprisingly quickly) to who-knows-where and returns with a water bottle, some hot water, and a packet of instant ramen (pick one). He hands you the bottle -- it's pretty cold; there's probably a faucet somewhere -- and sets the ramen-in-water down next to him. He's not about to hand hot water to a crazy person. "Um. What? All I got out of that was 'clefairy' and 'Team Rocket'."
(( ... Sigh. ))
She frowns as he runs off. Now that she got that all out of her system, a small patronizing voice in the back of her mind reprimands her that it's not his fault, really, remember? it's yours for getting into places that shouldn't have been gotten into?
Not that that'd stop her. Getting into places that shouldn't be gotten into is half the fun of adventuring.
When he returns with water and food, that just makes her feel more guilty. She did practically break into his house to rant at him. And demand his hospitality. Hnnnnnnn...
She takes the cold water and holds it to her forehead before taking a sip. Beh, tap water... "... thanks."
Taking a deep breath, she starts again. "O-Okay, so I thought I'd come back and see what you were up to--" wait he does remember her right cause it would be /so awkward/ if he didn't... not that they knew each other all that well to begin with, but uh; she gives him a pained smile and adds, "you remember me, right? I was here with a carnivine, maybe two weeks ago" or two days... time's all relative here in the Safari Zone; without giving him a chance to answer, she waves it off. "N-Never mind, it doesn't matter.
"Anyway, so I came back here and started poking around the front room and there was a locked door to the kitch-- well, it /says/ 'kitchen' on it, but... and I asked my abra to beam us in there 'cause I smelled someone cooking and I--" thought it might be you, wanted to see if I could help "-- was curious about it, so he did and then we were in a tiny dark room and he turned the lights on and there was furniture on the walls and oh yeah the floor was glass and there were /stars/ and I still don't know what was going on there, and then the wall opened and I looked outside and it was Len" relevant gesture "making eggs, and then there were a bunch of-- a /bunch/ of clefairy and their kin and there was a shiny clefairy with a stabbity hat - I said that before, but it was worth saying again to try to get across how weird it was that there was suddenly this shiny clefairy in a stabbity hat though I guess not much more weird than the rest of everything."
She catches that she's starting to ramble again, so she takes another sip of the water and continues. "So he wanted to know how I got there - oh yeah, he spoke English, but that was kind of, you know, not questioned after the whole everything else, so I told him everything I just told you, and then we talked and he said stuff about his sister and how... Team Rocket had his sister on a language program or... something... and-- no wait, it was that Team Rocket was stealing moon stones from caves around here and his sister was... also in the caves. Or something. So I have to stop Team Rocket and find his sister and also maybe Len's family." Len pouts at the way his situation is just mentioned in a throwaway line, but it escapes her notice.
"Soooooo then after that was all settled the guy teleports me and Pierre and Len back when I didn't even /know/ until I did 'cause did you know spaceships are a long way from Earth? And it was like five miles away, in front of a haunted house that I poked around in until I left and I left into a /whole bunch of fog/ it was /really really foggy/ I could barely see" trembling sip of the water "and I didn't know where I waaaaas, so I just kept going until I found these guys and saved him from him" relevant gestures; that reminds her, they're probably awfully hungry and they wouldn't be satisfied with ramen...
She turns to Lang and Gengar (she had a gengar named Nidorino, of course). "By the way, you guys can go scavenge over there if you're hungry." She gestures towards the field in general - they should be in fine enough health for that, and she'd pay the guy back for anything they caught. As they pounce off, she returns to the man and her story. "Anyway, so I got them and scared off an extremely irritating murkrow who kept screaming extremely irritatingly, and it dropped this...?" She pulls out the pin or badge or whatever it was and tosses it in front of her. "So I thought it might know where people were so I followed it and then I found this place and yeah um..."
She starts to sniffle; after everything she did, he really was too kind. She stands and wipes her cheek not nearly as subtly as she thinks she does and then, mostly spurred on by fatigue and the habit of not thinking before acting, she squeezes the blue-haired man in a hug, sniffling into his shoulder and cursing herself for how she probably looks and smells. "Thank you! I was so rude, and you gave me some water and listened to me and thank you!"
She pulls away, eyes cast to the ground in embarrassment as she fiddles with the bottle of water. "I... I don't think we've even been properly introduced." A shy glance to meet his eyes. "I-I'm Midnight. Um... it's nice to-- no... um... thank you!" Eyes down again and ears beet red. She's not great in these situations at her best.
((longest post yet woohoo go recaps.))
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