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Comments

[lyingheart]

The meat in the market doesn't help clarify these things.

[ This is your life, Shiro. Mystery PokeMart Meat. ]

[shiro2hero]

This is why I'm thinking of going vegetarian.

... eggs and milk are safe. so... there's that at least.

[Please kill him, he doesn't want to think about Tauros Burgers.]

[lyingheart]

On the presumption that there aren't any plant pokemon considered partially edible.

So they milk pokemon and keep them like ducks or pheasants or chickens. Where does the line between animal and pokemon come in?

[shiro2hero]

I'm working with that assumption to ward off starvation.

No idea. Two years and I still can't work it out.

[lyingheart]

We all make compromises in order to survive. At least yours is a sensible sounding one.

Two years... what's the longest that you know of anyone being brought here and staying?

[shiro2hero]

Remind me to tell that to my housemates sometime. You'd be surprised the grief I get.

That would be... Heather Mason. More than five years for her, I think.

[lyingheart]

People are good at complaining.

Five years still isn't so long, from some points of view. Yet this whole time, there's been no way to address choosing to stay or go back to where we're from?

[shiro2hero]

It's not so bad. I'm honestly lucky they're around.

It might be longer. She told me a long while ago, before I got to know her. But... no. There's not a way to do that. Not that anyone can tell.

[lyingheart]

[ She attempts to drum up anything to say to that, but really, she has nothing. If he considers himself lucky, then he is. Good for him to feel that way, and not sarcastically. But that's that. ]

The uncertainty is an annoyance. I suppose it is what it is. How much time passes back where we're from... is that known at all?

[shiro2hero]

None.

I know how it sounds. But... when you do go back, you're right back where you left off.

[lyingheart]

[ Wow, that's singularly depressing! Enough so it startles her into something like a choked off laugh, lungs constricting. She came from darkness, and she'll return to that, still unaware and unable to reflect how much, if any, time has passed. She'll either be a prisoner of an enemy, or potentially the prisoner of an ally.

This place is all stolen time. That... she doesn't know what to make of that. ]

How has this been verified?

[shiro2hero]

[Oh boy, if he knew that? He'd feel awful about breaking the news to her. But... that's the drawback of texts. You can't see these things.]

[Sorry, Annie.]

I've experienced it. So have friends of mine.

[lyingheart]

[ It's okay, Shiro, there are worse things that come out of war than out of this particular interdimensional kidnapping adventure, after all.

Still, her brain tries turning this over, coming around to how and why and what and having no answer for any of it. ]

You've been back, then here again? Remembering everything?

[shiro2hero]

I


I remembered everything from home. Once I came back here.

[But not the other way around. Is what he's implying. But doesn't know how to say, lest someone he knows and cares about may be reading it.]

[lyingheart]

[ ... Because no one's around her, and her pokemon is in ball, Annie takes a moment to rub her hands over her face and just take this in as one more piece of information to verify with others. ]

This really is a world apart.

[ Is all she says to that, because it only holds true to itself... if she's reading this response right. ]

[shiro2hero]

Yeah. It really is.

I don't know if it helps to tell you that it gets easier, being here. That's been my experience. The same goes for a lot of other people I know.

[Hopefully it does help. Hi, Annie, he's just met you and he's trying to support you.]

[lyingheart]

[ Ah, one of Those Types. Not that she registers that so much as that this person is making an effort to reassured, and she's not feeling the need to be reassured. Her reassurances are a world away, unless her father manages to show up here, and she's not even sure how that would work out in the end.

She shakes her head, tapping out words in response. ]

As far as I can tell so far, this is a less shitty place than where I was. Isn't that the sort of thing that's supposed to make it easier? That seems to be what people say.

[shiro2hero]

[He is one of those. More so now than ever. Especially when that's a definitely familiar sentiment for people arriving here to have. A lot of his friends included.]

It can be, yeah. But it's an adjustment. The lack of trouble is hard for people to get used to, sometimes.

[lyingheart]

[ Shiro is a good man. Not that Annie knows it, but she reads what he's written and acknowledges she can see how this person's words are true. ]

What forms of crime end up being common here? I've heard mention about a Team Rocket, and it doesn't seem like permanent disappearances and kidnappings are that common. So what is?

[shiro2hero]

That's about it. Sometimes Team Rocket shows up, tries to steal pokemon, but... There really isn't much.

At all. Come to think of it.

[lyingheart]

There's no petty theft? Muggings? Drug rings? Assault? Brawling? Drunken nuisances? Pokemon attacks?

[shiro2hero]

If there are, then no one's bothered to report any of them. The only thing that happens is random pokemon causing problems -- but everyone's pretty quick to handle that.

This is a place where children travel the world with only animals around to look after them. It's the most peaceful I've ever seen in my life.

[lyingheart]

[ Because children setting off on their own at around ten, eleven, twelve, is entirely the measure of how safe someplace is... ]

Or most things are handled on local levels and aren't reporting elsewhere.

I haven't heard, or asked before, but what kind of government is found here?

[shiro2hero]

[If he knew where she came from, the irony would smack him in the face.]

There IS a police force. Maybe they do handle things, but if there were those kinds of problems, wouldn't we hear about them?

...

A really good question. Wish I had an answer. If there is one, it's not obvious -- and no, I don't know how that works.

[lyingheart]

Have you checked through their records, if they allow the public to access them? If reporting isn't mandated, I doubt anyone will bother to take the time to keep the public aware of the annoyances they deal with.

Surely someone is responsible for the money? Who prints it? Or... whatever it is people here do in order to trade for goods, because it isn't all bartering, that much I know.