"It looks like they were chasing more than just Carmen," At least from his perspective, and he suspected she might have felt the same way otherwise she could have just recalled her pokémon into it's ball and deescalated the situation that way.

It was at about this time, when his chimchar swung down out of a nearby tree to plop itself onto his trenchcoated shoulder. He hadn't thought of a name for it yet, but it seemed friendly enough despite that.

"You were lucky to make it back here. Were you traveling out there by yourselves?"