[He can't help it. He chuckles.] No, no. Not plain clothes. Plainclothes. One word. It's a technical term. It just means-- well, normal clothing. Not a uniform. You can wear whatever you want out of uniform.
[But then he regards her with a certain, more focused interest. Huh. The girl was so flighty that he'd thought for sure she was a local recruit... but then, it wasn't as if Steve Palchuck was a shining intellectual light and he'd come from another world, same as any of them.]
Team Rocket didn't steal you, [he says quietly.] The entity who did just dumped you where they could press-gang you. But-- sometimes, I guess they are.
But here's the thing: you're not in the world you came from anymore, I'm afraid. You're somewhere entirely new. Instead of Paris, there's Lumiose City. Instead of France, the Kalos region. And you're not in either of those.
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[But then he regards her with a certain, more focused interest. Huh. The girl was so flighty that he'd thought for sure she was a local recruit... but then, it wasn't as if Steve Palchuck was a shining intellectual light and he'd come from another world, same as any of them.]
Team Rocket didn't steal you, [he says quietly.] The entity who did just dumped you where they could press-gang you. But-- sometimes, I guess they are.
But here's the thing: you're not in the world you came from anymore, I'm afraid. You're somewhere entirely new. Instead of Paris, there's Lumiose City. Instead of France, the Kalos region. And you're not in either of those.