[He's about five steps ahead of you on that one, Miss Carmen. Or rather, Susie is. She's climbed into her trainer's lap, and over the sound of Shaun crying Carmen might be able to hear the Buizel fretting as she smooths her little paws over his cheeks worriedly.
Shaun takes a couple of deep, shaky breaths that keep him just this side of breaking down entirely.]
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Shaun takes a couple of deep, shaky breaths that keep him just this side of breaking down entirely.]