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.
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delilah glanced at her surroundings. so this ... was the infamous lake pax. the source of it all, the origin of everything that was going absolutely fucking wrong in this region. the woman clenched her fist, treading carefully.
you never knew what could possbily jump out at you here.
it took less effort than usual to reach lake pax. the waters were calm, but he knew that horrifying things lurked around -- yet, bolstered by his first win against a scourge, two actually, he felt more confident in his abilities than he ever had. even if it didn't mean that he could win this time around.
J stood on delilah's left, but tapped her on the right shoulder.
a testament to her obliviousness, she didn't notice there was anything amiss until she felt something touch her shoulder -- and the woman insctinctively spun around, punching the air where the thing should have been. her heart rate spiked, and delilah's next move was to reach for a pokeball --
-- "fuck, J." she relaxed, giving him a less-than-light punch on the shoulder. "way to scare the shit out of me." the trainer took deep breaths to calm herself.
"it's delilah -- no, wait." she'd tried that one before, hadn't she? reaching up to prod his smug face, delilah rolled her eyes. "did you find that funny?" she remarked dryly, shaking her head. "terrifying a poor, innocent traveler like that?"
scaring him was just for his own amusement, in other words. delilah opened her mouth to respond -- before acknowledging the truth in his words. "okay, okay." delilah released her combusken to stand beside her before raising an eyebrow at J. "what about your pokemon?"
J glanced at the dark skies, and whistled. it was one that wasn't too loud, but it was high-pitched. he turned back to delilah; he wasn't one to be all talk, no action.
in a brief shimmer of silver feathers, wing made its landing by the trainer, in the marshy bank. it cawed, unhappy at being called off duty prematurely.
delilah turned her face upward to see the skarmory fly into view. the image of wing, with blood on its metallic feathers as it snoozed in the glade, drifted into her mind. "i remember." she nodded in greeting. "have you encountered any scourge here yet?"
"if there were any around, wing would have let me know," said J. having scourge around was almost a natural thing to feel now, especially after they had come out of the safety of nerio. the only way was forward and past the lake, past unholy decima and into the safety of hespera as people who have successfully met danger in the fact and survived.
the skarmory stirred at its name, and turned to J. it was clean of blood now, its feathers silver and shining amidst the gloom. "earlier another trainer and i worked together to defeat two of them."
wing rattled its feathers, and took off. it had no intention of listening in on a conversation that did not involve future plans.
she was impressed; J had faced down scourge? (and it didn't look like he was severely injured, either ... or even injured at all.) delilah watched wing fly off before addressing the man. "what d'you think of pax?"
... it was just like any other lake. perhaps a little more pollluted, or a little more dangerous than it should be in the first place, but once the area was cleared up, he was certain that it would return to being a normal lake, with the exception of a laboratory overlooking the area.
"just another lake," said J, finding no reason to contradict his thoughts.
as expected. she laughed. just like any other lake, he said. (well, it was true? save for the less-than-normal surroundings, of course.) delilah opened her mouth to speak more on the subject when her stomach growled.
