generalflirt | ~♥THIRTY-ONE♥~

And you were all concerned earlier...

[Siiiiigh]

You hadn't insulted her mom before. [Shrug.

...but then her conscience bricks and she holds out her hand with a little sigh. You want her to take a look?]

[He holds it out. Thundershock is much, much weaker than Volt Tackle, so the hand barely had anything of a burn. Actually, there's not even really a mark, just messing his nerves a bit. which is making his hung-overness worse]

[Inspecting it...]

You look fine.

[Glancing up.]

Is it still hurting?

...Not really.

[and now he looks at Linda and laughs] Actually the first one was when she busted out of her egg.

Chin?

["Not really?" That's boy-talk for yes, isn't it.

Streaming out the water with the other hand now to rest it lightly on this one. Yeah, his nerves are all frazzled and she's glad she checked him out because this is the second one in - what, ten minutes? Oy.]

Yes, that one.

[You know... he is so sincerely comforted by her doing this. Sob.]

[This is the damage that she is exceptionally suited to healing, so really it won't take long. She handles the hand first, soothes the nerves from the earlier electric shock as well just from this one hand.

She leaves the damage from his hangover alone, though.]

I'm not sure if that's cute or disturbing.

Well I guess it shows this little girl has a lot of power for a newborn...

[And that in shocking him here she is holding back a lot]

I guess so.

[Dropping his hand now and streaming the water back into her waterskin.]

Her control is pretty impressive too.

It must be instinctual or something, right?

[Linda doesn't get this, but oh well]

It must be, yes. She hasn't had a chance to learn much any other way.

Yeah. [He pets Linda now, trying to smooth down that weird Gold-hair tuft of hair] She's interesting...

[Grin.]

You like her.

[Pout don't mess with my tuft thing. Oh well, it's not that bad...]

Yeah, I guess I do.

Good.

[Considering you're stuck with her. It's kind of weird that the Pokemon just got... delivered to other people. You'd think that Gold would keep them.]

Yeah... it was odd. [He actually hasn't gone back in the journal to know of at least two others. But] I like it though.

Probably a good thing. [She shifts now, having sat in one position this entire time, and pulls her knees up to her chest.]

If you were the first person she saw when she hatched, she might have bonded with you. If you didn't end up liking her, then... [Katara shrugs] I don't know what would have happened, but it probably wouldn't have been good for her.

Mmm. Yeah. [Sheepishly] I wonder if Pokemon work like that. It was me, Gold, and Aitaro in the room.

[He pets her some more, just using a thumb]

[...you two are so totally adorable, do you realize that?]

You should make sure you ask Gold about that trainer training.

I already talked a bit but...

[It was yesterday. He was depressed]

A lot happened all at once, huh?

[And a sudden glance down at Linda as two and two come together and she realizes why there was suddenly a Pokemon baby.

So the Malnosso even affect animals with these events? ...awkward.]

Yeah, yesterday was busy...

[Sheepishly. He knows he messed up. And then got a pokemon. and then got drunk]

Yeah. [She frowns for a moment and then looks down.]

...I'm not sure how much of what happened is really any of your business, but it hurt to see you speculating on what happened with me and Luffy like that.

[She closes her eyes and lets out a breath that's almost a laugh.] It was embarrassing too. I should probably still be mad at you about it.

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