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[samsa]

Hello! I'm not around at the moment, but if you leave a message I'll get back to you!

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6/5

[scratchitti]

[There's an attached pic]

been here in mt moon a few days. pretty cool looking, right?

[A few more pics: of a small group of sableye eating stones, showing the matching stones on their backs]

they are pretty used to me now

6/5

[samsa]

Wow! That's amazing, Sakuraba-san. Are there a lot of them?

[scratchitti]

they only come out after dark, but I've been able to distinguish a few pretty easy- I'd say there's a pretty big group of them here. More then the Clefairy for sure

[samsa]

They seem pretty docile at least. Probably as long as you don't startle them.

[He hasn't forgotten about what the Pokedex says about them, after all.]

Are you going to try to catch one?

[scratchitti]

I haven't seen this so called 'sinister glow' the dex mentions- they do glimmer when light hits them like a cat's eyes though. They were pretty skittish when I first got here too

I'm thinking about it. Sota says a few are thinking about leaving the cave to explore but are worried about having enough gemfood.

[samsa]

[Oh, well, that's good to hear. As long as you don't let your soul get stolen or something, Neku.]

Right...I'm sure that would be a concern. The one trainer I spoke with who owns one as his starter said that it's hard for him to get his Sableye to eat much else.

[scratchitti]

[He had a litwick his first time here bro, he's fine]

makes sense. I read they WILL eat pokefood, but it's harder to get wild caught one's to switch over. I'd guess you'd have to feed hatched ones some too. so they'd form their gems correctly.

[samsa]

That's something I was wondering before. That if perhaps someone had the funds to do so, if feeding a Sableye one certain type of gem and nothing else would influence how they form at all. But as interesting as it is, it might be more trouble than it's worth. ...and expensive.

[scratchitti]

well, I think I'm going to take one with me. If/when I breed it I'll keep you updated. How's that sound?

[After all, with his monster money cat, maybe he can legit do it]

[samsa]

That sounds good! Though I'll be very impressed if do it and that actually works.

[scratchitti]

if it doesn't it doesn't. then I have two useful ghost pokemon anyways. I can't help feeling kinda... I dunno, familiar with the ghost ones.

[samsa]

[...well, it sounds like there's a story, there. He won't press Neku about it unless he opens up on his own, though.]

Ghost types interest me quite a bit. I only own one right now, but reading about them is always interesting. It's like most of them came straight out of horror novels, really.

[scratchitti]

I only have one: Honedge. But she's more Steel in her behaviors I think, then anything really scary.

Though you gotta think, since we can breed them they're probably not really dead or human spirits like the dex says. which makes being around them a little less creepy

[samsa]

That's true. It would be impossible for all of them to be, with that being the case.

Mine is a Litwick. He's...honestly far less creepy than most of the other Pokemon I have.

[scratchitti]

oh! I had one of those when I was here the first time. It was... a little eerie, but not vindictive or anything.

[samsa]

I enjoy Phantom's company. He's a very cheerful Pokemon, for a ghost.

[...though he doesn't want to pry too much, he can't help but send another text after the first.]

You've been here more than once?

[scratchitti]

yeah. I came back just before christmas last year. I was gone for a few months apparently.

[samsa]

...I hope you don't mind me asking. I just haven't heard of something like that happening, before.

[Well, no, that's...not totally true. He's heard of something similar, but not quite that exactly.]

[scratchitti]

I don't mind. It's apparently happened to a few folks before but it's not super common. And sometimes people will come back but not remember being here before.

[samsa]

I've heard that. ...the last part, I mean.

[...]

Do you mind if I ask you something else?

[scratchitti]

Go for it

[samsa]

Do you like being here?

[scratchitti]

That's... kinda hard to answer honestly.

When I first came here I was. Because I had more of a life here. But when I came back my life back home was a lot better, so I'm pretty conflicted about it. I wouldn't want to live here forever. But I like it here too.

[samsa]

["Because I had more of a life". ...that's a better way to put it than what he was thinking.]

I do, too. I think it has a lot to do with how things are for a person, back home.

And since you told me...I honestly wouldn't mind staying here, to tell you the truth.

[scratchitti]

That bad, huh?

[And that's all to say: he personally doesn't like to think of himself pre-Game much. And he's talked to people who come from awful circumstances outside the pokemon world. He can't judge]

There's nothing wrong with that