ghostytrainer | prank #19 | video / action for Dave if he's in the hotel room.

[For once, there is no smile on John's face when he turns on the video feed. Instead there is a look of tired, barely-restrained panic on his face. Also unusual are the stacks of books surrounding him. Someone went to the library. Someone found every book they could on ghosts and legends.]

[Someone stayed up all night reading all those books, and it definitely shows.]

[Barely visible on the couch behind him is a lavender-clad body laid out on the couch. The face isn't visible, but to anyone who knows her, the clothes should be recognizable as those of Rose Lalonde.]

Has... [His voice is the tiniest bit shaky. He's really trying his hardest to stay calm here.] Anyone figured anything out yet? About the people who were taken, I mean? And how to get them back? I talked to a few people about it last night but...heh, it's a different day now, right? [There's a very forced, weak laugh.] I read every book I could find...but they aren't telling me anything more than the pokédex did.

[It's a little late for "don't look in their backs."]

So...yeah. If anyone knows something, I would appreciate it.

[He gives the camera once last slightly desperate look before clicking it off.]

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_{[Guess who isn't very updated for once because he's hiding out in the back alleys]}

... what happen?

[Good, stay in those back alleys, Stitch. It's safer there.]

Shedinjas happened. The little bug-looking shells that have been flying around everywhere. They're...stealing people's souls or something. If you look in their backs then...well. [He turns the camera so that Rose's face is visible. She's just staring. At nothing. She's alive, obviously, but that's really all that can be said.] This happens.

_{[And as Stitch hears that, his face goes pale. Had he still had his huge ears, they would've dropped.]}

S-steal souls? Are you sure?

That's what all the books say. And the Pokédex entry. I didn't look so I honestly don't know how true it is. So...yeah. Don't look. It's probably best just to stay away from the damn things altogether.

Woah. Uhm. Okay, Stitch will stay away. Faaar away. Thanks for warning.

_{[He's just gonna hole up in the darkest alley and make his Growlithe Heat Wave any and all Shedinja that dare approach.]}

And uuh... Hope your friend gets better.

Good idea, I don't want to lose anymore friends to this. [He's at two he knows about already, plus a third that he hasn't yet heard about.] You're welcome.

And...I really hope she does too. [He's...kind of lost without her. Because she's always there. And now she's not.]

It'll be fine.

Pokémon no die, so maybe people won't either. _{[He doesn't believe that himself but... How Do I Comfort]}

[He...hadn't thought about the possibility of her dying. Youthful optimism/ignorance, I suppose.]

Yeah that's...true. I mean, I had a pretty close call back in April but, I didn't die. So you must be right! Yeah...everything will be...just fine... [He's sure that the more he says this, the truer it will be.]

It will be! Stranger things happen before this and we all still live, so yeah.

_[Beat] .. what happened to you?

Yeah. Rose and I have definitely survived stranger things than this back home.

And uh, I got a pretty good crack to the back of the head with a rock. I was unconscious for a while and lost a decent amount of blood. I'm kind of shocked that I didn't bleed out or something.

[He's....not 100% sure if that's possible. But he worries that it might have been. Regardless, it's still closer to death then he cares to tread.]

prank #19 | video / action for Dave if he's in the hotel room.

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