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It's a crisp, fall day. Fluffy clouds are rolling through the sky. A slim, green-eyed girl of about thirteen sits on the edge of a meteorite crater in rocky Veilstone City, Sinnoh. A messy, windswept bob of black hair frames her face. Black jeans hug her hips, with a pokéball belt hanging slightly askew — only one ball at the moment. Above that, she wears a midriff-bearing t-shirt in dark green, with a sharp-looking abstract pattern in black, and over that a short, rugged, black utility jacket. A dark green messenger bag hangs from her shoulder, resting on the rocky ground.
Hailey and Iron are starting Pokémon Journeys
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Compute-and-Conjury
"A pleasure to meet you as well."
They step aside a little, and Concordance comes forth, their oversized eyes alert and aware.
"And this is Concordance. They're quiet interested in you both."
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"Interesting." She hums. "Wonder why."
She gives Concordance a thoughtful look and tilts her head. It's not like she's done anything interesting, yet.
Is it about her being ghost-type? Or about Neo living in her shadow full-time?
"Well, I'm a bit curious about you and your trainer as well, Concordance."
Compute-and-Conjury
A glance down, a glance back up.
"Concordance has some expertise in intuitive psychic perception. Your bond is interesting, and... humans aren't the only ones who can get a good impression of one's character from a simple 'feeling out', especially given psychic assistance. As for your other question..."
"Met... Tang, Me."
There's a sort of... coarse impression to their words, that could be discerned given time, and a certain - ease, of reaching out to grasp them, perhaps? It's not the most simple thing but...
There's a simple inquisitiveness, a light - blankness, a proper deliberate pause, and a little pulse of the all-too-familiar drive common amongst pokemon.
"They're wondering what sort of question that you'd like an answer for, and beyond that, if you'd appreciate a battle to get more familiar in place of words."
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Neo drifts out of Hailey's jacket and floats back and forth, her smile widening.
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"We'd certainly enjoy a battle," she replies with an eager little smile. "Don't really have a clear question so much as just... wanting to know what you two are like."
Compute-and-Conjury
They duck their head.
"Or at least... we endeavor to be. There's certain... visionaries, or at least - exceptionally intelligent and well-spoken people who... have a certain distinctness to their character that makes them - obviously disparate from the dross."
"As for our story... The story of my life I feel is... somewhat self-explanatory? I grew up around here, and I'm back after a bit of a - training tour, you might say. Concordance's bonded self was my starter, after a bit of cajoling. Beldum like... simple things, straightforwardly pushing towards their goals, and trainers with a certain talent in their affinities, and I managed those things well enough without being a poor fit for their future. I worked to help them grow to something... a little more, in time, and I'm glad that I've been able to do something to reward the faith they've put in me. Beyond that... I've done some catching, too - though nothing more then relaying balls to the professor on assignment, so far, and some reading on the sciences. That's... been my life, since I set out, more or less in full."
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Arceus. They're cute. Oh no.
"Yeah, that particular kinda unfakeable spark some people have. Pretty cool goal. S'neat to learn about the thinking of a pokémon that different."
She smiles interestedly.
of-emerald-and-ether
"So."
A flurry of barely perceptible shifts and flickers dance through Hailey and Neo's shadows, in the improvised language they've worked out.
<What do you think of them?>
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<Assuming you like them after the battle, wanna travel with them?>
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<Okay.>
Barely a moment later, Hailey looks over at Iron.
"How about that battle?"
Compute-and-Conjury
"Let's, yes."
They stride out down the steps, 'til there's enough of a clearing for a mid-level battle.
"To ball-recall or we call it off, one on one, I presume?"
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"Yep." She nods, then turns to her partner. "You got this, Neo."
She spends a moment moving back and forth along the edge of the crater to see if there's a good angle to connect her shadow to Neo's, but the sun is too high in the sky, and actually stretching her shadow a meaningful distance is still beyond her abilities.
She gives it up for now.
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Neo floats in place, just a few paces in front of her trainer in the crater, grinning widely.
Compute-and-Conjury
"Begin!"
They wave their hand forward, and Concordance surges forward shockingly swiftly, claws glowing with misty grey light for only a moment of anticipation before the 'bullets' condense at each tip and shoot forward at Neo.
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She holds her left hand off to the side and quickly snaps her fingers twice.
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Neo, already dodging to the side as she sees the shots, weaves under them, then lashes her shadow forward in a darkened blur.
Compute-and-Conjury
They raise their hand up, and a blue barrier forms across Concordance's crossed arms, crashing against the burst of shadow for a moment before both fade away.
They relax a bit, and then weave another barrier, this one a diffuse pane of energy in a soft green.
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On hearing a pair of simultaneous snaps and a whistle from Hailey, Neo flits backward, a fel, smoke-filled wind blowing sharply at Concordance from behind her.