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[styxiedust]

[Hello, world of Pokemon! It's your local cheerful reaper, all smiles and energy as usual for her. She seems to have dressed up for the occasion in a perfectly normal-looking light purple kimono with a simple cloudy pattern across it. Until one gets to the obi around her waist and realizes it's covered in little ghost Pokemon and also has a Mimikyu charm hanging off of it.

At least the cookies she's presenting look normal, though they are also slightly spooky.]

October is upon us, everybody! It's time to show appreciation to your local ghosts and have a little fun with tricks and treats! We're only just getting started over at Honeyed Soul, so if you're 'round the Goldenrod area please do pop in for a visit, we always like seeing people!

[Who's "we" exactly? Probably the Mimikyu in the foreground with a green ribbon tied around its neck, the various Phantump floating around in the background, and the Sylveon already nicking some cookies for himself to eat. Might be safe to say this lady has company indeed.]

For everyone that's new: hiya! I'm Botan, resident ghost lady and Pokemon breeder--I happen to run a sweets shop on the side, so if you were interested in work or wanted a sampler, I'm always free to chat! I can also chat with your Pokemon if that's needed, though I should hope it's not if you're getting along well!

[Yes it's safe to say Botan is in good spirits.]

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[lyingheart]

[ She reads, taking notes of her own in the notebook she has for this purpose. She hasn't heard this bit of information, about how death isn't something present, but something historic. Also something the meat suffers, she... would guess.

Regardless, Botan is giving her information and insight she didn't have before. Some of it is unsettling, almost unbalancing; it's weird to be fully human again and yet also be less mortal than she was as a titan shifter. How much to take to heart or not is a different matter. She'll decide on that later. ]

I hadn't heard most of that said in this way yet. That's disconcerting. You say no one's experienced this afterlife, but you don't say that's because no one has been killed in the last... however many years. Has no one died of old age?

The break-down is appreciated.

[styxiedust]

[That's her job, if she can't be death lady in this world at least she can be information + listen lady.]

You would think, wouldn't you? There's a lot of old folks here--some even remember having grandparents that participated in the wars of history, and illnesses like colds do happen, but anything more serious that would usually lead to death just don't. Nor have I seen any native person of this region age in the five years I've been here, we age but they don't. They say it's because the air is so clean and the environment is healthy if you ask them but honestly it's quite weird and most of us don't tend to dwell on it or else we'd go mad trying to puzzle it out.

[Or at least, she would. Nobody dying ever? That sounds like a red tape nightmare for the afterlife.]

I'm happy to do it, dear. Don't ever hesitate to ask me when something's on your mind--I mean, of course, I've been here ages now, what else can I do?

[lyingheart]

[ This is all subtly horrifying, itching at her brain in a way that makes her shiver. SHe knows she looks for the worst without pausing to consider why she does, fairly often, but patterns mean things, and harmless as the world might be, she's seen the evidence of people changing.

... Armin is taller now, for what it was worth. ]

What about births? Have you seen any babies being born in those five years?

Ah, yes... it's a kind offer. Thank you for that.

[ People are... much more willing to talk and be helpful here than she's used to considering the nature of how they're communicating. It's hit and miss when things are helpful, but that's less on them, and more on what it is she's currently set on knowing. ]