"What's a cleric? And what's Shelyn?"

"Shelyn is the Legendary Pokémon of love and art and a cleric is someone who gets spells from a Legendary Pokémon every morning."

"Wow, they can do that?"

"The ones people on my planet worship can! I don't know about the ones known here."

"What're the other Legendaries on your planet?"

"Oh, too many for me to possibly list and also some of them are evil."

"Well, which ones are your favorites? Apart from Shelyn."

"My favorites are Zekrom and Victini and Cresselia." 

"My mom said Victini doesn't exist."

"Your mom also thinks Zekrom is evil, so."

"Oh, let's see. I like Desna, she's all about dreams and freedom and the stars. I like Iomedae because she helps out when the evil gods are up to their nastiness. Sarenrae is a lot like Shelyn except for being boring so I guess I'd say I approve of her but that's different from liking her. I like Gozreh, whose thing is nature, plants and the sea and weather and stuff."

The kid who listed her favorite Legendary Pokémon grins. "Cresselia likes dreams too! Maybe Cresselia and Desna can be friends!"

"Maybe! Maybe they already are and it just never came up in anything I've read."

"Maybe instead of fighting Roxie again we should see if we can find a Legendary Pokémon and ask it to give us spells."

"Do you know how to find a Legendary Pokémon?"

"Well, no."

"Shelyn and the other ones who give out spells can hear you talk to them or even just think at them from anywhere! But you have to be their sort of person to get magic, and you have to be Wise enough to use it."

The kid who likes Cresselia squeezes her eyes shut and focuses intently.

"What counts as Wise enough?" asks one of the other kids.

"There's three different ways to be smart. You can be good at school stuff, like math and learning languages, or you can be good with people, or you can be good at thinking about the big picture stuff. That last one is Wisdom and clerics need it to cast spells."

"I don't know if I'm good at big picture stuff."

"Which one makes you good at Pokémon battles?"

"I don't know but I bet all three help in different ways. That's how it is with most stuff."

"...Can Pokémon be clerics?"

"Well, sure, or at least some kinds on Golarion can. I don't think the species I've seen here so far are quite bright enough to know what they're doing in the right way."

"I bet an Alakazam could be a cleric. Alakazam are the smartest Pokémon ever."

"Have you ever even met an Alakazam?"

"Well, no. But everyone says they're the smartest."

"Do they talk? Most spells need some talking."

"I don't know, I've never met one."

"I think they might talk in people's heads? But I'm not sure."

"That doesn't work for spells."

"I guess maybe it wouldn't be a cleric then. Even though it's the smartest."

(The kid who was squeezing her eyes shut opens them again.)

"Probably not unless it would make such a good cleric otherwise that it'd be worth it not being able to cast most spells without learning a special trick for that."

"Fifteen minute warning until lights-out!" says the woman at the counter.