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[servedup]

[The Pokegear doesn't show anything but a view of the sky. But off screen, the sounds of a woman crying can be heard.]

No... no... change me back! I don't want this!

[By all means, she should be happy that she's here - alive and safe - but she's been through a lot in the past few hours. Giving her a human form is just insult to injury, and she's horrified by her new body.

This isn't what she wanted. She wanted to go home.]

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[standless]

[There is a sympathetic- perhaps even empathetic- wince.] We are sadly in the same boat then. But I do assure you, this is not the worst place to be 'stuck' in.

Oh- regarding pokemon however...

[He turns his camera upon his team- currently including his primarina, his arcanine...some sort of...Apple? It just blinked. There's also a rather large frankenstein's-beast of a dog, who seems content to stare at nothing.] They're the collective term for all of the fauna of this region- though many of them are not quite what you would expect of an 'animal'. For example, one of my favorite pokemon thus far has been an animated mirror! ...Though they became a bell, not long after...

[servedup]

[Padak can only stare in surprise at the array of creatures of all shapes and sizes. She thinks she has a pretty good knowledge of all kinds of creatures that live in the ocean... but this was all entirely new to her. She never considered other wildlife that lives on the surface.]

Pokemon...?

Why do you have them?

[standless]

Why? Well...

Companionship, I should say. The entire world here thrives upon it in fact- it's an inspiring thing to see, [he adds with a wide smile. In the background, the Primarina blows a few idle bubbles, seal that she is.] Though I certainly can't say I have the knowledge to speak for everything here.

[servedup]

[She's speechless for a moment. She died. She died brutally. And yet she somehow woke up, given some kind of second chance, and woke up in a world where fish and humans are friends?]

How...

[She chokes on her words. Dammit, she doesn't want to cry.]

How can you expect me to believe that? After what I've seen? After what I've been through? Humans cut me open! They tore out my guts, cut off my head, saw the dismembered body of my friend! And humans and fish are just... friends? Friends?

[it's too overwhelming. She can't handle it. It's too much.

So she starts crying.

Damn.]

[standless]

I...

[He looks, to put it gently, horrified. He's never seen food served like that, or at least prepared before his eyes that way- certainly whole fish was a dish he'd enjoyed at times, but the fact of the matter was it was still cooked from something that...well. Wasn't breathing at the time.

He doesn't know what to say.] I'm sorry, [he breathes, his own eyes watering in sympathy. He imagines it to not be unlike the sights at Windknight's lot, from his own perspective. The bodies of the people, the horses-]

I don't know what else to tell you. The words I speak are true- I do not intend to cheapen your experiences, and terrors, but this is the truth of this world. I am sorry, truly, and deeply...

But I don't know what to tell you...

[servedup]

[She continues crying. Johnathan seems genuine, and really he's not the one she's upset with. She's just. Completely overwhelmed.]

It's just a lot to take in...

It's too much...

[standless]

[Poor Jonathan is completely lost. There's nothing he can say- or do, is there! But this poor woman is clearly distraught, and he can't just leave her like that and disconnect the call.

About 30 seconds too late to realize her trainer is distressed, Clarity is nuzzling against his side. Blindly patting her crest, he realizes something.] ...Are you alone over there, Miss?

[Maybe her pokemon can help!]