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[schachmeister]

[Hey fellow Paldea chums. Guess who immediately hit up the library to learn everything about this region that he can?

So now have Armin absolutely beaming at the camera, a wide smile and eyes shining bright as he holds up an atlas for all to see. The atlas is open to the page on the Asado desert.]

It really does look like a sea of sand!

I've wanted to see a desert since I was a little kid, and now I finally get the opportunity. Would anyone be interested in going with me? Huey, you perhaps? I think there is an assignment available too, if that might motivate some folks.

[Hey, Armin will do the assignment while he is there, but he doesn't need it. He'll go just for the excitement of seeing a desert.]

Or, perhaps, does anyone have a tips on travelling through a desert? Bring plenty of water, of course, but anything else? And pick the right pokemon, I suppose. I don't imagine my water pokemon would enjoy the area much.

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[video]

[schachmeister]

[Armin can't even imagine have a thirty-year long friendship. Mostly because he isn't even twenty-five yet. Sometimes it is easy to forget Cecil is old as balls.]

You sound very fond of her. And proud.

[video]

[paladinlost]

I am! She's the sort of person who will not hesitate to speak out against injustice, or to take a stand against far greater opponents if it keeps innocents safe. I'd have died a hundred times without her help.

[In retrospect, that one attempt to leave her and Rosa behind before they returned to the Red Moon may have been a terrible idea. Just a little.]

However, back then... Well. When I finally woke up, my friend was missing, she was unconscious, and we were cut off from the village by her brand new mountain range. I could hardly leave her alone; thus I carried her on my back as I left through the other end of the valley. Of course, what awaited us there was the seemingly endless Kaipo desert... and its native monsters.

[schachmeister]

[Armin is honestly a little jealous. He can't help it! He knows the limitations of his own body, and he knows he would never have been able to carry someone, even a small child, across an endless desert.]

Were you ever able to find your friend again? Or were they--

[paladinlost]

[Oh dear. Cecil should probably clarify a few things immediately.]

Kain's fine! Well, he's fine these days, at the time there were... complications.

[Understatement of the decade, right there.]

Had I not suddenly become responsible for a young girl's well-being, I might have attempted to search through the rubble, monsters and my own safety be damned. But with Rydia there, that was not an option.