28th Recipe [Video. just outside Rock Tunnel]

[cyan_maid]

[When everything went weird, Jane had lost track of Alex, and she's been silent on the network while trying to track the other girl down. It's very possible, after all, that she got sent someplace quite far from Rock Tunnel and hadn't been deposited back. It's possible the tunnel has crap reception.

But when Jane finally emerges with the last member of her Bunnyquest list in hand (who is, by the way, the most ill-tempered Whismur that ever did exist), when she tries one more time to call Alex and the 'gear number isn't connected to anyone anymore...well, she has to accept the inevitable.]

Alex has gone home.

[Back to that - that island, and the ghosts, and the time loops...Jane lets out a defeated sigh, slumping against the outside rocks, her brow furrowed.]

...It's when these things happen that I think...why do I still keep the house around? Why don't I just shove off and travel, if there's no one to come home to? I guess...[She shakes her head.] I don't know. Maybe I keep it in case people return? In case they need a home when they get here, and not adventure all the time?

[Jane is quiet after that, looking out into the middle distance. It's warm out, cloudy but not overly so. There's a nice breeze that ruffles Jane's hair and makes the trees across the water rustle.]

Either way...I, uh, I'll show you all my new rabbity friends once I get back to Goldenrod. It might take me some time to get back there, I...I'd like to rest.

[Before she shuts the feed, Jane mutters to herself,] God dammit, I fucking hate Rock Tunnel...

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[sassymaru]

... Alex?

Which Alex, if I may ask?

[islandshore]

[Oh man. Jane hit the nail on the head right there. Riku shuts his eyes, sighing. It's a feeling all to familiar.]

I... Yeah. That's kinda where I've been at. Got this huge place up in Celadon, and for a while it was a full house. But over the years, well...

There might be plenty of Pokemon, but it's just not the same, y'know?

[He pauses, nudging his chin with his thumb.]

But there's one perk to having a home. Means you got somewhere to crash if travel expenses get to be too much. It's something stable, instead of relying on Inns and Hotels.

[sociallychallenged]

[Ah, jeez. He remembers talking to her. She seemed like a good girl. And people leaving and coming back has new meaning to him now.]

When this place made me fuck off, I don't think I woulda blamed Connor for just getting rid of our place. He wants to be a trainer and I wouldn't have wanted him to be anchored to feeling lonely.

It would have been disappointing to come back to no place, but I'd rather come back to knowing someone I gave a shit about wasn't trapped alone. For what it's worth. [That's the worst feeling in the world.]

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[starry_forehead]

Oh...I'm sorry to hear that. I didn't know them but it really sucks when people get taken away.

[Considering Dipper has made his own, lost person post recently. Yeah. He can relate.]

I don't know about a house but maybe it's something to remember them with? I was actually thinking of getting a house sometime in the future, so I'd have someplace to store my stuff but also so I could I don't know. Put up a picture for Mabel. Or something like that....I'm still thinking it over.