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_{[After watching the network for a little while and eavesdropping on others around the Cherrygrove Pokemon Center making online announcements of their own, JW decides to give it another whirl. When in Rome, right?]

[James appears on the screen dressed in a huge puffy grey coat. His nose is red and his eyes have dark circles under them. It's nighttime and the newbie trainer is back-lit by the glow of the Pokemon Center's windows. He draws in a wet-sounding sniff before speaking.]}

So I'm still here. It's been a...a month? I guess. It's funny. I'm surprised. Feels like I should have fallen into some other world by now--if my track record is anything to--hkkkhhff! To go by. Can't get too comfy, y'know?

_{[JW makes this sort of wobbly little frown--it's as though he wants to say more but is unsure whether or not he's said too much weird stuff already. He gives his head a little shake and puts on a smirk.]}

Speaking of comfy--check this out.

_{[He unzips his jacket halfway with his free hand and a huge cloud of steam billows out into the freezing January night. A Sizzlipede is wound around the man's body, clinging to his shirt with its many legs. It turns its tiny buggy face toward the camera and twitches its mandibles.]}

So, Santa brought me something useful. Y'hear that, duck? Useful!

_{[He whips the Poke'gear around to aim the camera at Psyduck who is sitting by his heels in the snow. She's clutching a tiny paper cup of coffee that the Joys in the Pokemon Center gave her. She doesn't look up at him. JW turns the camera back on himself.]}

Don't get the wrong idea, this bug and me ain't friends. Soon as it warms up, I'll--WHAAHHCHOOH! Ugh! God! Anyway...I don't know why I'm doing this. Making this. It's what everyone else does. Do you care that I got mauled in the woods by a bunch of rats or have a rock in my shoe right now? Probably not. Whatever. Bye.

_{[Having talked himself into a bad mood, he switches the Poke'Gear off.]}

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Is falling into other worlds normal for you?

_{[JW is quiet for a moment, taking in the features of this stranger.]}

Guess so. Twice is a coincidence but thrice is a pattern.

What kinds of worlds did you end up in before this one?

Well...

_{[He counts off on his fingers.]}

There was...somewhere. With a lot of meat. I can't remember much. And then there was the future which might as well be another world. And now this place.

Was there anything you remember doing to get out of those worlds?

This one seems to take and send people randomly.

_{[It's kind of...nice to have someone take this seriously.]}

Well, I fell in a river...but the next time I was in my own bed.

[It sounds as possible as anything else she's been through/heard about at this point.]

So possibly random, possibly the cause of why you ended up back there. I wonder how many other worlds are like this one, just dragging people into them.

Well, by my math--and I'm not an expert--if there's two there may as well be a hundred!

[Oh. It's this man. Lust remembers him - she couldn't possibly forget.]

Somehow I'm not surprised to hear that bit about the rats.

Somebody should do something about them! The woods are overrun!

Because it's their home. You're the trespasser in their realm.

[AH, IT'S ANGRY DUCK MAN]

I told you your duck was there to help you against the giant rats, didn't I?

_{[JW just...stares at this strange green-haired person in his tiny hand computer. That text conversation feels like it was forever ago so he doesn't quite make the connection.]}

What?

_{[It's all he can really say.]}

[Envy is not even a little surprised that the guy doesn't recognize him--it's not like he ever saw his face.]

I dunno, maybe I'm not the only person who told you about that.

But I did warn you that you were going to want to be friends with your duck.

_{[JW's face quickly twists into a frown--not that he wasn't frowning before, this is just a frown he's frowning on purpose, not out of exhaustion.]}

Well maybe I'd think about it if she even offered to help out when I got attacked!

Maybe if you'd thought about it before she would've helped you out, who knows?

[NONCHALANT SHRUG]

[The fact that Envy has less than zero room to talk about friendship is not going to stop him.]

_{[Fighting in the weird bird war on tv or no, JW decides he does not like this guy.]}

Are you gonna sing me a song about it? Save your breath. I have Hot Stuff here, he's all I need.

_{[He gestures somewhat proudly to the red centipede huddled in his jacket. Hot Stuff wiggles its little mustache.]}

[Envy actually snorts.]

Pfff, no way, I don't sing.

But it does seem like your duck might be juuust the same level of petty.

_{[Psyduck looks up from her coffee, finally tuning into the conversation for the first time. She lets out a little quack of dismay but does little else to change the stranger's mind.]}

Hmf.

_{[He didn't think Psyduck had a petty feather on her little head. She was just a coward.]}

Why are you so interested?

[Poor Psyduck. Envy is now too busy with JW to notice her quack.]

Because I'm a perfect angel who loves being a goody two shoes at the masses, can't you tell?

[He bats his eyelashes at the camera, Angelically.]

If you're such a goody two-shoes, give me five bucks.

Sorry, I already gave all my bucks away to the orphanage.

_{[James narrows his eyes.]}

A likely story! Tell me one good thing a complaining yellow marshmallow can do against a hoard of gnashing teeth. I'll wait.

Hm. Well. If you pick some fights with rats one at a time for a little while first, I'm pretty sure those ducks learn to shoot water jets and psychic mindwaves.

_{[JW's frown deepens, both because this conversation isn't over and because this stranger sounds...pretty correct. Beating up rats one at a time would probably make Psyduck good at it. But what he says gets him to tilt his head.]}

Psychic? Y'mean like...aw, hell, what's it called. Movin' shit with your mind? Bendin' spoons? There's no way she's that smart.

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