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[necrodentia]

cw: child abduction

[ Rainer appears on screen looking a little harried. The reason why is sitting in her lap: a crying child who can't be more than two or three years old. ]

Um... Does anyone know how to return a lost child to their parents? My Drifloon disappeared this morning and just floated back with-- What's your name, sweetie? [ The little girl pauses in her crying to sniffle and mutter something up to Rainer's ear. Rainer nods and continues. ] Plum Pudding all of a sudden floated back with little Naomi hanging on! Naomi says she thought the Pokemon was a baloon, and then she got carried away, and she doesn't know how to get back home to her moms...

[ Just the sound of the word "mom" is enough to set Naomi off crying again.

Rainer winces. ]

Any help would be appreciated! Time is of the essence. Thank you!

Comments

[schachmeister]

I thought that was just a myth...

[Listen, there is so much weird stuff in the Pokedex, Armin had simply assumed that the whole 'prone to child abduction' thing was another one of those. Turns out not.

He looks appropriately concerned!]

Have you considered taking her to the Jennies? They probably have ways to deal with lost children. And, uh, I guess if I was a parent and my kid was stolen by a pokemon, that is probably the first place I'd go to.

[necrodentia]

Jennies... They're like, the city guard or something, right? I could try taking her to them.

[ Unless...? ]

They're not going to try to arrest me, are they? Since it was my Drifloon that did it?

[schachmeister]

I'd think that going to them would speak in your favour. Your pokemon made a mistake, but you didn't plan anything malicious. I'm sure you would be able to explain that to them.

The longer you wait to contact them, the more it might seem like you did actually plan this. Not saying you did! I just feel that the Jennies might get that impression otherwise.

[necrodentia]

[ ..... He makes a good point. Deliberately delaying in alerting the authorities would be something a villain would do.

Rainer should know, she was in school to become one. ]

Yeah, that tracks. It sounds like going to the Jennies would be the thing to do.

[schachmeister]

As far as police forces go, they are pretty dependable. I'm not sure what they are like in your world, but here at least, you shouldn't worry too much about going to the Jennies with a problem.

[They can't always fix it, and sometimes (many times) you gotta kick Rocket butt yourself, but at least they aren't corrupt.]

[necrodentia]

I guess that's good to hear. City guards are kind of hit or miss in Nua, depending on where you go. Most of the time they just leave stuff to the heroes to sort out.

[ Or, they did, back before the Heroic Oversight Guild pretty much exploded. ]