"I'm a cleric! I get magical powers from Shelyn, the Legendary Pokémon of love and art."

"Can Shelyn give ME magic powers too??"

"Maybe, if you're the sort of person who'd make a good cleric for Her!"

"What sort of person is that?"

"An artist or a musician of some kind! I'm an actress. And you have to be a good person, and care about helping everybody and getting them to a good place in their lives even if they've done bad things."

"And if I do all that I get MAGIC POWERS?"

"If you do all that and Shelyn chooses you. It might take a while! I haven't been a cleric for that long and I'm much older than you!" Probably most of that delay was because she grew up in Infernal Cheliax but she's simplifying.

"Awwwwwww. That's practically FOREVER."

"Yup. But it turns out that art's really fun even if you don't get magic powers! So I recommend it anyway."

"Okayyyyyyyy... I bet it's less fun than battling though."

"I wouldn't be surprised if you could do both, but it's up to you."

Well, in that case he's going to sit down and start singing off-key.

She's not in a hurry if he would like to practice some beginner vocal exercises!

He thinks vocal exercises are boring, but if she's sticking around he'll attempt to teach her the theme songs for his favorite TV shows.

Pauta is unhappy about this development!

Pauta can go back in her ball. She would love to learn local songs! Does it sound right if she resolves that wobbly note like this or like that?

The first one. ...He thinks.

She can go over them again if that helps him be sure!

...He's still not totally sure.

Well, next time he hears the song he can pay extra close attention! Ears are as important to singing as mouths!

While she's here talking to a fellow Psyduck trainer: what is the name of that water attack?

"Water Gun!"

"What a fun name! Well, it's been very nice to meet you, and if you want to find me again, I'm Songbird Laia Solandra." She curtsies and proceeds on her way; the kid can't have gotten too far from civilization on those little legs.

A little while after the spot where she met the preschooler there's a big hill, with what is presumably Virbank City on top of it, though most of what she can actually see from this vantage point is the fence around it. 

There are some more preschoolers hanging out on the road up hill, or if she'd rather avoid being challenged by preschoolers she could cut through some of the grass.

With the city walls in sight she'll go ahead and battle preschoolers, she hasn't encountered anyone who has more than one of these things yet and she doesn't know why and she has three and maybe they only seem low-maintenance.

"Hi miss!! Want to see my Lillipup? It's SUPER awesome."