He's still not touching the 'mom' issue, but this guy's clearly upset.

"Sometimes people leave and come back! That's what happened to Sandalphon. One day I got up and his Pokémon were still here but he was gone. Then later he came back again. When he was gone he was back where he came from."

Does that explain things better? Shrike sure hopes it does. He isn't very good at this.