This world is inhabited by creatures that we call pokemon. People and pokemon live together by supporting each other, but now the scourge threatens the safety of the entire region. Kohaku has become a dangerous place, where children stay at home and only brave souls go adventuring.
Welcome to KOHAKU. Come for the nightmares. Stay for the tea and crumpets.
The season is SUMMER. It is easy for survivors to forage for food from the land, as there are entire abandoned farms ready for harvest. On the downside, you can smell the corpses.
swarms
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the words hit her like a ton of bricks, sudden and heavy and utterly out of nowhere. she's been preparing herself for this possibility, in a distant, calculating corner of her mind. but it had never really made its case, never quite believed that batin could have survived the scourge, it willingly not taking them from the living world.
the only people who the scourge did that for were hades agents.
madonna, long-finished with her cake, twirled the fork with her small fingers. it was a trick she'd mastered long ago, with a spoon, then a fork found in the kitchen; never with a knife, because accidentally stabbing someone or dropping it on a body part was always a bad thing. but it didn't have to be a knife to seem menacing; the teeth of the fork were long, and the utensil was metal, glinting in what light it catched from the lights above. her movement was lazy, though there was a tenseness in her small pokemon frame.
ahuda merely clenched her fists again, and let the words fall from her mouth.
"so you're a hades agent. whatever your intentions were in accepting the offer -" and who knew that the scourge made deals with people, but this wasn't the time nor the place to think, really understand that "- whatever your intentions are now, you're a hades agent."
"of the signs you said you needed, psychic seemed the one most in my power to give. mind games, right? i'd say this qualifies. and now you can run screaming from your next scourge battle! or is that only what we agents end up doing? it might just be an agent thing, all the running."
"it's just an agent thing." arceus, ahuda had asked for this to happen to her, hadn't she? what had she been thinking? she feels herself close off, settling into that state where she isn't quite shocked but will be later, truly, and off-balance. "thanks for the help, though. the mind game was definitely appreciated." the words are sarcastic coming out of her mouth, of course, but she doesn't care - she's just waiting for this meeting to end. "batin brand, right? i hope you have a horrible day."
instead of being the one left behind, she chooses to rise first, leaving without even a glance back. she won't be the one to start a fight with an agent, even if they did deserve it, with people around that could be injured; she wasn't the sort of person to go that far.
if she stumbles only a few feet outside the door, though, and catches herself before moving on, only her partner sees.
/ahuda out (...although it is rather abrupt. sorry? ^^; 2tsunz