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YOUTH KILLS

Thalia had a series of fitful dreams she wouldn't remember later and woke up coughing. Was this what dying was? She felt like she was in one of her childhood daydreams where all the air turned into brownies, and she just ate her way to the surface. Only there were no brownies, and it was just like the air was a really rich sludge instead. She looked over at Neo, and then at her snover--

Oh. The grass/ice type was nothing more than a softly-wilting corpse at the other end of the tent (approximately three inches from his (ex?) trainer's face.) He had spent the entire night processing carbon dioxide into oxygen. Until there was no longer enough oxygen to breathe. And he had been far too polite to lift a tent flap and step out to get some air. That, and the fact that Thalia had tied a leash around him to her wrist.

"He gave his life for us," Thalia murmured. And then: "Feels like a damn sauna in here. I'm gonna go light up outside." admin

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neo 2tsunz

The scraggy, now quite sleep-deprived, considered fire punching Thalia when she exited the tent, but he refrained when she did not seem to be making off with Neo's stuff. For her part, Neo coughed herself awake. She could only recall the last fading fragments of her dreams, but she suspected most of them were oxygen-deprived. Sitting up, she pulled off her sweater, still coughing, and threw open the flap for air. "You can kick the snover now, Themis," Neo said as she took in huge lungfuls of crisp, clean air--and a bit of nicotine, but that was barely noticeable. Instead of drop-kicking the snover, the scraggy headbutted it, and then he watched as it toppled onto its side and rolled off the edge of the boulder. <Scrag,> it said, content at last.

[2tsunz]

YOUTH KILLS

Once she had two cigarettes down, Thalia felt a lot closer to human. "I owe you," she said to Neo. "It was really nice of you to let me stay in your tent. Um, I'm sorry my Snover died overnight. That was pretty weird, not gonna lie. But if I see you around sometime and you need a favor, just call one in, okay?" admin

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neo 2tsunz

"I'm sorry your snover died too," Neo replied for 100% different reasons. It was hard to say if she was genuinely sorry or if she just felt the need to voice condolences over the deceased. Neo nodded. "If you find a scourge pokemon, take a sample for me."