ECHO: A desperate plea

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[Like many of her posts in recent months, Angel's is quick and to the point. This time, however, she seems to at least have dropped the emotionless facade. More than anything, she looks tired, though it's now mixed with at least one part concern and two parts hurt.]

What can cause a pokemon to abruptly stop listening to you? I have always been close with my creatures, but now... it feels like something has changed.

Do they understand apologies? Or... do I have to prove myself anew?

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[notvaljean]

[Jean hems and haws over answering this, especially since he left that mortifying message in her inbox on Valentines. But this is about Pokemon, and maybe he can just play it cool and make it all about that? Yeah, that's what he'll do.]

Which ones aren't listening?

[brokencode]

[It turns out that it's probably a good thing Jean contacts her. While he had been deliberating over contacting her at all, Angel had been grappling with the idea of responding to his other message. Even several days later, she had no idea what to say.

There was the obvious, of course, but it seemed next to impossible to put that gently, when all she could really comprehend were her own self-deprecating thoughts.]

Dora and Skagbait, mostly. [Her normally stalwart companions, as Jean would know.] The others are uneasy, but at least responsive.

[notvaljean]

[If they can just talk about Pokemon for awhile, instead of Jean's idiot confession, then maybe they'll be able to get through this. Jean is fine with pretending it never happened.]

[Valentine's confessions: not even once.]

Huh. That's odd. Did anything happen to make them be weird?