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{Hello Route. Nanao's sitting at a picnic table in New Bark Town, hands folded neatly on the table. One hand's knuckles are wrapped in a handkerchief, but she stares levelly at the camera, eyes utterly serious.}

Hello. I would be grateful if someone out there was able to provide an answer to my questions. Don't worry, I only have two. {She looks away for a moment, swallowing.}

How were we brought here, and does anyone know why? I think I understand where we are, even if the premise is absurd, but it is the how and why that yet eludes me.

{A Pidgey chirps somewhere off camera, and Nanao's fingers clench and uncurl.}

A precis on what happened might be nice as well, considering that this town looks like it's been ravaged by a storm.

{That said, she reaches out and clicks off the feed. She'll be wandering around New Bark for a while at least, so feel free to approach her if you see her!}

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[Envy stares for a second at the Yamask, before shaking his head and letting out a quiet laugh.]

Figures you'd get one of those.

...there's a joke here that I'm missing. {Narrows eyes.}

What' so funny?

Not a very good joke, but...well, why don't you point the 'Gear at that one and see what it has to say.

{She does just that, and the screen is suddenly full of a slightly unsure Yamask.}

Yamask, the Spirit Pokemon. These Pokémon arose from the spirits of people interred in graves in past ages. Each retains memories of its former life.

{...the 'gear now has a lovely view of the New Bark Town sky.}

What the hell?! This thing was a human?!

{brb panicking}

[WHOOPS.]

Ah--hey, don't freak out!

[Not that he can blame her too much because Yamasks freaked him right out too at first.]

Yeah, they were, but it's...I don't know, mine's okay with it.

{HOW THE FUCK DOES SHE DEAL WITH THIS, IT'S LITERALLY A HOLLOW}

{She reaches out, and shakily fixes the gear back up. She looks rather pale and rattled.}

S-sorry, I just... This is something I didn't expect to happen. {The Yamask has backed off, and now peeps back up over the table's edge.}

Does yours do anything.... unusual? I'm sorry, that's a weird question, but I just need to be sure.

[He's always just considered them this world's version of a homunculus. Still weird and kind of upsetting, but not for the same reason.]

...if you count wanting to go to the library for books all the time unusual, then yeah.

{spirit + mask = hollow}

They can read? That's not something I would consider... normal.

Edmund can, but he says he used to be a librarian so it makes sense.

...They can all understand what people say though.

[don't hurt your ghost's feelings Nanao]

Wait, what? {She did not anticipate this! She peers down at the Yamask, and it peers back.}

He can talk to you? All that... this little one has made are burbles and squeaks. {As it then does, proving the point.}

Oh, not...actually talk. But he can write. He said that actually talking would be more trouble than it's worth.

I'm sure he's around here somewhere, I could go get him if you wanted to talk to him.

[Because she was clearly pretty unnerved by her own.]

That's intriguing... {She almost doesn't hear the second part of his statement, she's so lost in thought.}

Hm? Oh, yes please. ...if you wouldn't mind, of course.

It's no problem, I'll be back in a second.

[There's also the secret, secondary motive of getting to stop talking to her and looking at her for a few minutes. Just to have a second to get at least some of his thoughts in order.]

[He hands the 'Gear over to Chimera to hold, so she'll get a curious dinosaur face staring at her and Envy's faint voice calling for Edmund to get over here. It's not long before he's back, and the 'Gear gets handed to a little Yamask. Edmund gives Nanao a shy wave before starting to text.]

Hello, I am Edmund. Envy said you wanted to talk to me?

{Hello there, Mr Dinosaur. Nanao's going to wave at you!}

{Oh gosh, Edmund is actually... really cute. Nanao's Yamask is going to sneakily sneak up behind her back and peer over her shoulder.}

Yes - he said that you remembered facets of your previous life. {BREATHE, Nanao. It's not actually a Hollow.}

I'm a little curious about that. Would you mind talking to me about it a little?

[Edmund sees that other Yamask! He gives her a nod, still clearly shy.]

Oh, certainly I will. I don't remember quite all of it, it gets blurry.

Um, what sorts of things would you like to know?

Uhm, Envy said you were a librarian - what were, well, what are your favourite type of books?

Well I've always enjoyed a good mystery! Shellos Holmes and Herdier Poirot are some of my favorites.

Shellos Holmes-- oh, they've been modified to have Pokemon in them...

{That's kind of clever. She hadn't anticipated that.} Never been tempted to look into some of the more romantic works, eh?

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