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[neededlassie]

[The screen flickers on to show a boy who looks like he’s a little bit in a fog. Behind him, a Buizel bounces around happily through the snowdrifts, nearly disappearing only to poke her head up every now and then, her whiskers and fur caked with snow.]

Hello? Is anyone out there? My name is Shaun Mars. There was this lady who called herself my mom, and she gave me a backpack full of food and clothes and stuff, and I sorta...just wanted to know if that had happened to anyone else. And also, if the food was...safe to eat. It’s like rice, and I think there’s fish and vegetables and stuff too, or something.

I think I might've gotten someone else's Pokegear thing. It says it's my birthday today, but my birthday was two days ago.

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[Video] Dear lord I apologize for disappearing.

[willrememberthis]

Yes - ! [She pauses and blinks - and looks down below the 'Gear, to something at her lap, something at her right, then over her shoulder to confirm the locations of her Pokemon, in a few seconds.

She holds out her 'Gear and scoops a brown egg marked with a crescent into view.] ...This is the egg... It's gonna hatch into a Teddiursa. [Then she turns the camera to a Skitty kitten at her side, who looks up, tail wagging.] This is my Skitty, Katya...

[And for the rest, she swivels around on her seat to show respectively a napping Furret, a Farfetch'd, and a Cubone and a Nidorina in a friendly wrestling match.] ...And this is Ben, Kenny, my Cubone Lee, and my Nidorina Carley. They're all named after people I knew where I'm from.

[Video] Not at all, no problem!

[neededlassie]

[His eyes widen when he sees the egg. How neat is that!] I didn't know Pokemon came from eggs.

[Susie pushes closer, bracing herself on Shaun's shoulder as she leans in to look at all of the girl's Pokemon. Shaun recognizes the Farfetched, Cubone, and Nidorina as types he knows from the games he used to play.]

Cool!

...Wouldn't that get confusing if any of them ended up coming here?

[Video] Heh, thank you, then~

[willrememberthis]

[Clementine blinks. Her expression goes blank, then her mouth twists into something not really a frown, exactly, and her eyes drift off to the side...]

...It would be a little weird, I guess...

...But so far, the people who I have Pokémon for are all dead.

[Her voice has gone slightly quieter, slightly harder-edged - but it's gotten far easier for her to say since she started living here, whether that's a thing she should be relieved or guilty for.]

[Video]

[neededlassie]

[Shaun's own expression changes to a contemplatively sad look.]

I-I'm sorry, I didn't know...

[There's a little hesitation in his voice. He does feel genuinely sorry, because he also knows what that feels like. He hasn't experienced as much loss as she apparently has, but Jason and his dad both still ache.]

Were they your friends?