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[fatalissimo]

So do you guys ever still think about how bizarre this place is, or do you pretty much just get used to it after a while? It's weird as hell, the stuff you just start accepting after a while – you don't even think about how most of us came from a place where cats don't hatch out of eggs.

(...I say "most" because some jerk out there's going to pop up and prove me wrong, you just watch. Even if you also hatch your damn cats, I'm pretty sure there's something here that's out of the ordinary.)

I don't know if there's much point to this, but there's not much point to anything that goes on around here, anyway. I don't know, even if this place is better than whatever's going on back home, sometimes you miss being useful, too. Another thing to get used to, I guess.

...No, really, I am getting sick of the kittens-from-eggs thing. I'm going to have more cats than I do Swablus at this rate.

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[fatalissimo]

Oh, wow. Well, I'll tell you right now that it's probably going to suck for a while unless you have friends or something, but it's not too bad after that. People here are generally okay. The place overall's pretty safe. Some people are idiots, most of them are at least sort of useful. Pretty standard stuff.

But yeah, the cats come out of eggs because pretty much everything comes out of eggs. I have yet to see anything that doesn't, actually. Swablus are birds, though, so it's a bit less weird for them. I've got a bunch.

[fairy_tale_trainer]

Speaking of useful, I am sure you are far more useful than you have given yourself credit for. You have already helped me out!

Do you know how long it takes to navigate these routes? I've never been outside a city before.

[fatalissimo]

[...ahahaha oh boy, um.]

Three days to the next city. Through the woods.

I'm not even kidding. You're going to be walking for a while.

[fairy_tale_trainer]

Three days in the wilderness?

It is dangerous, right?

[fatalissimo]

You've got a Pokémon, right?

[fairy_tale_trainer]

I've been told that he is an eevee. The other ball-things are empty or don't work....

[fatalissimo]

You haven't caught anything yet, that's why.

The Eevee should do something if you run into trouble; the things here like to fight and protect their trainers and stuff. If he fights something you like, you can use the balls to catch it once he's tussled with it a bit.

[fairy_tale_trainer]

And those would protect me even though I had Cassius attack them? I would think they would be angry with me.

[fatalissimo]

I think it's more like they respect you because you just beat them or something.

[fairy_tale_trainer]

I suppose that could make sense. Are there any normal animals in this world? Animals that aren't pokèmon?

[fatalissimo]

I think there must be? From what I've seen the meat here is like it is back home, at least, so there have to be things like chickens and cows and stuff. But I've never really seen any, either, it's weird.

[fairy_tale_trainer]

That is strange. I hope they don't take it from pokèmon! These creatures seem much more intelligent than a farm animal. To tell the truth, I have never actually seen many animals. I have always lived in a city.

[fatalissimo]

Me too - it's mostly just cats and dogs and stuff where I'm from. Sometimes horses and stuff, but it's mostly the smaller pets.

[fairy_tale_trainer]

It is the same for me. Horses pull the carriages, but otherwise it is only cats, dogs and some birds.

[fatalissimo]

Carriages? You live somewhere really fancy that does stuff like that still, or what?

[fairy_tale_trainer]

I come from London. That's how many people get around, if you can afford to not walk, that is.

[fatalissimo]

...I get that maybe people want to be quaint or something over there, but I'm pretty sure they have cars in London.

[fairy_tale_trainer]

Cars? Well, if you mean trains, then yes.

[fatalissimo]

Oh. You're probably like one of the guys I know here.

What year's it, where you're from?

[fairy_tale_trainer]

1897. Isn't it still 1897 here?

[fatalissimo]

...Try 2015.

if only she knew about the concept of !?!?

[fairy_tale_trainer]

What?

[fatalissimo]

Yeah, we've been brought in from all over. Different years and stuff, too, I know a few people here from 1915 and a bunch that dress like they wandered in from a really bad fashion period during the 1990s.

[fairy_tale_trainer]

I had no idea! So this place really isn't connected to home at all, is it?

[fatalissimo]

Probably not, unless London was a lot weirder in 1897.