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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Outside it was very, very cold, but inside the Prosperina Gym's library was warm. Maybe too warm. Thalia yawned as she browsed through the book in front of her. Neo wasn't answering her C-Gear, but she didn't Neo to get the answers she needed, necessarily. She knew how to read.
She focused her eyes on the text in front of her: A Treatsie on the Originnes of Afflictions Mentale.
Maybe she could just put her head down for a moment.
Thalia promptly fell asleep in the middle of the library.
She was nowhere near ready to challenge the gym leader – not yet – so Taryn had no idea what she was doing inside the gym. She had planned to simply wander around today and get a feel for where all the important businesses and things were located, but then she’d ended up right in front of the gym and it was like her body had decided to enter before her brain could convince her to move on. Perhaps it was the cold that drove her indoors, or her instincts as a budding trainer pulling her to the next step of her journey. She was glad it happened, all the same – the sight of so many books was not one she’d forget easily. She was, of course, familiar with reading and libraries, but this was the largest collection she had seen anywhere, by far. She was still a long way from being ready to challenge the gym, but she had no excuse to be bored from now until it was time to move on.
Taryn walked around, gazing at the shelves of books until something else caught her eye. There was a girl not too far from her own age, slumped over a book. Taryn hurried to her, frowning in worry. “Miss? Are you all right?”
Thalia jerked awake at the voice and promptly fell out of the chair she had been slumped in.
The temptation to just lie on the carpet and go back to sleep was pretty strong, but she pushed herself up and looked up at the person who had woken her.
"Sup," she said, a little dazed. "Sorry. Uh. Were you wanting to borrow my book?"
A Treatsie on the Originnes of Afflictions Mentale lay quietly on the table, drool on one open page. Oops.
She had apparently startled the other girl when she woke her up. Taryn winced as the former sleeper fell out of her chair. She…hadn’t meant to do that. Oops.
The other girl seemed nice, though, apologizing instead of yelling at her. She even offered the book she’d been reading. Taryn shook her head. “No, no, and it’s me that needs to apologize. I didn’t mean to startle you. I saw you slumped over and was worried.” She smiled sheepishly. “Are you all right? ”
"No, no, it's fine," Thalia said. "I was just dozing off. The library's warm inside, outside is all cold and nasty and stuffed full of scourge. Well not in Prosperina, but most places, it feels like. It's just the EOS life; I see the chance to grab a nap, I take it. Usually without even meaning to. All part of my heroic duty."
Taryn nodded at Thalia’s words, shivering a bit. “It is that. Winter was a very bad time to start a journey.” It seemed neither of them was a fan of the cold. It couldn’t last forever though, right? As for the napping, she supposed she could understand. Traveling was rather exhausting. It actually relieved her to see she wasn’t the only one that felt that way.
When Thalia finished speaking, Taryn giggled. “Sleep is important, and it’s not safe to do so on the road, so I can understand.”
Taryn nodded. “I’m a trainer. Just started a few days ago. I’ve been trying to learn my way around the city between training sessions until I’m ready to challenge this gym and move on.”
Taryn grinned as Thalia leaned forward and asked how the journey was going. She liked this girl – she seemed really friendly. Hopefully, this wouldn’t be the last time they ever saw each other.
“It’s going well, thanks,” she responded with a smile. “Training feels like it's taking forever, but I knew there’d be times like this. What about you?” The girl had gotten farther than her, despite them being of similar ages, but she knew she’d meet trainers like that. She had gotten a late start.
She snuck a furtive glance around the two of them, but they seemed to be in a relatively deserted section of the library. Apparently tomes of ancient Kohaku were not flying off the shelves in popularity.
"I'm not up to much," she said, skirting around the subject of i'm a mutated freak with a scourge deoxys in love with her. Seemed a bit much to drop on someone's plate. But she dug out a pokeball and released a vaccinated eevee onto the table. The pokemon curled his tail around himself and watched the two of them steadily. "I came back here to work on leveling him up, mostly."
Thalia answered her, and then released an Eevee onto the table. Taryn’s eyes widened. Eevee was one of her many favorites. She opened her mouth to ask where the other trainer had gotten her Pokemon, but then decided against it. She was sure to encounter some eventually, and she needed to focus on the Pokemon that would be part of her main team at the moment.
“He’s gorgeous,” she said instead. “What’s his name?”
Taryn nodded when Thalia mentioned that she didn’t name her Pokemon. She needed to not assume these things about people. She and her mother named their Pokemon, and her older brother had named his while he had them, but that didn’t mean everyone did, and the more powerful trainers had so many on their team that naming each one had to be difficult.
“Understandable.” She smiled. “Any idea what he’s going to be when he’s ready to evolve?”
Thalia reached out to scratch behind an ear, and the Eeevee puffed up his fur, purring quietly.
"A sylveon," she said. "My only other fairy pokemon is a togepi, and I have too many dragon types to not have more than that. I know some people type specialize, but I've always tried to run a pretty diverse team."
Outside it was very, very cold, but inside the Prosperina Gym's library was warm. Maybe too warm. Thalia yawned as she browsed through the book in front of her. Neo wasn't answering her C-Gear, but she didn't Neo to get the answers she needed, necessarily. She knew how to read.
