Function (2) - Anonymous Text / Action for Violet City

[ladywithnovoice]

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What do you think is worse:

Someone who hurts other people for their own selfish reasons and admits it?

Or

Someone who hurts other people but says it's for a good cause?


- Starly

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[It's been a long treck to get here, and one can find Red by Sprout Tower just sitting by the water and tossing bread out to the local Duckletts. Two Growlithe and an Electrike are napping around her. They've just finished a long journey so they're allowed to relax.]

[It's a rather peaceful scene, if you can ignore the Kricketot that might suddenly run up to you with its antennae clicking together.]

Comments

[islandshore]

Exactly. "Where'd things go wrong?" "Could I have done something better?" "Will it ever be the same?"

And when people leave here, you're stuck wondering if they'll be okay back home or what the future holds.

[ladywithnovoice]

There have to be people who know what waits for them back home, doesn't there?

[islandshore]

Depends on what they were doing when they left and if they've got any friends from the future.

If someone got ripped out of their world during some kind of battle, there's no telling what they're in for when they get back. And even if they weren't, people's lives can change at the drop of a hat.

One minute, you're working on a raft. The next, your world gets swallowed by darkness.

[ladywithnovoice]

It's scary how things can change like that. Especially when it's not by any choice of your own. Someone makes the decision for you, before you even had a chance of knowing.

[islandshore]

And I can't think of a better example than this place. People sucked here against their will. People leave against their will. Think most people's problems with this world would go away if we could choose when to come and go.

[ladywithnovoice]

Do you think someone is responsible for all of this?

[islandshore]

If not someone, then definitely something. We just don't know what that is.

Could be a legendary Pokémon. Could be a machine. Could be something completely random. In all the years I've been here, we've never come close to the truth.

[ladywithnovoice]

Yikes.

[islandshore]

That's one way of putting it.

By the way, what brought up this question in the first place? Kind of a heavy subject, don't you think?

[ladywithnovoice]

There's a lot of time to think here.