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Five-hundred-and-one million, six-hundred-twenty-two thousand, seven-hundred-thirty-one...

[When the video feed flickers on, you get a nice view of the starry night sky stretching endlessly above. His voice filters through whimsically like something distant and far away.]

There's Andromeda to the north, Libra... Vulpecula, and maybe Orion's to the left, hidden away in the corner. [a chuckle, slightly regretful] Mm, I'm just kidding. I don't recognize any of the constellations here. And even if I did, I'll willing to bet that their names are probably somewhat different than the way I remember them.

Teddiursa Minor, maybe, or The Great Victreebel.

[He laughs, airy.] The stars here are still pretty, albeit nameless.

[The video screen dips downwards and inwards, illuminating a brown-haired boy, lightly smiling. There's an egg cradled in his lap. And wherever he's sitting, it's high above the ground, for the treeline is right there behind him, their tips caressing the sky.]

You know, it's a little strange that it takes a week-long coma and a very vivid dream to realize how nameless everything is here. [A pause, pensive. And almost to himself--] And it was a very, very vivid dream. I don't think I realized how vivid it was, until it came true.

[Breeze in the background, and he looks up, distracted. When he turns back, he's smiling again, wider than before, which probably means he's just that much more melancholy.]

Has anyone here had any happy dreams since coming here?

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[For any late-night Cherrygrovers, he's sitting on a lamppost near the town square -- egg in his lap and Flygon sitting next to him -- murmuring to himself idyllically. His words, drifting along the wind-]

'...Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming,
The clouds methought would open and show riches
Ready to drop upon me that, when I waked,
I cried to dream again.'

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[dryly] Oh, is that what it meant. I would never have known without you to tell me.

Nothing particularly joyful, then, if that's what you were asking. Well, not that that's anything new, really.

Aren't I the most useful?

[He hums.] Maybe you need better dreams. Do you think there's a pokemon here that might be able to do something about that?

Probably somewhere. [He leans backward a little.] It'd be too troublesome to ask one to do anything like that, though. Besides, it's not like they're really bad, usually.

Not bad, but not joyful? Now I'm curious about those dreams of yours. What kind of dreams do you have?

Well, there are the ones where I'm just resting somewhere, and everyone's just going about their business without worry and not bothering me. Or there are the ones where Sion and Ferris are doing bothersome things and forcing me to do other bothersome things and stuff like that.

What about you?

Your dreams sound like snippets of real life. [a hum] Doesn't it feel disorienting, when you wake up?

And my dreams, huh. I guess you can say they're the sort that you would really want to wake up from.

Not usually.

That you would really want to wake up from, huh... Those are the worst kind. If you get those a lot, that must really suck.

It's not too bad. After all, it could always be worse.

Do you ever wish dreams wouldn't come true?

Only the really bad ones, when they show up. ...Of course, those'll probably happen anyway, someday.

Fatalist. [teasingly] If you say they'll happen, they probably will.

Haa... So you're saying, if I said it wasn't going to happen, it wouldn't?

[He smiles a little. A small, somewhat sad smile, but still.]

...If only it was that easy.

Not necessarily. The world likes its double standards.

But I think that if you say it wouldn't happen, you'd have a better chance.

Deluding myself like that sounds like a pain...

...Ah, well, maybe I'll think about trying anyway, just to see.

You're going to purposefully try out something that might be troublesome? Who are you, and whatever did you do to Ryner?

I only said I might think about it. Geeze.

[chuckle-- and the most genuine grin that he's had all day] Ah well, I'm still glad.

[He sees that grin and decides to attempt to move onto a somewhat less depressing topic so as to hopefully keep up the better mood.]

That I might consider your advice? Well, you've seen what Rose would do to me if I didn't.

[Oh, Ryner, you do care. He looks intrigued by this.]

Rose is very intelligent. I think she knows what's best for her trainer.

What she thinks is best, anyway. It usually ends up actually being what's most bothersome though.

Well, I'm starting to feel that you definition of bothersome spans a list several dictionaries long. [/teasing]

Ah, see? You're getting it!

Slowly but surely. [Grin! Ah, he feels better already.

Leaning back against the lamppost, now.]

What are the stars like, back in your world?

The stars? Ah... Well, they're not quite the same as they are here, I think. But then, I never really bothered to learn all of the constellations back home.

No? I guess that's understandable -- you probably had better things to do, huh.

What did you do back in your world, anyway? Mm, besides travel.

Haa... well, traveling's really most of it, honestly. Ferris and I traveled to neighboring countries and searched for relics of ancient heroes, because a certain idiot king read a report I wrote to pass the time and thought looking for them would be a good idea.

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