"So you raised her since birth," Dimitri says, nothing but warmth and affection in his voice as he watches her scamper about. "Even if it makes one sound like a parent, I can't say that I don't know how that feels..."

He glances over to the towels they have set up, the pokeballs where some of his Pokemon are resting. "I have a pair of my own that hatched from eggs, and it's hard for me to think of them any differently. There is something precious, to being there from the very start."