foolishwren | 044. [Video/Action for Goldenrod]

_{[Like so many transmissions today, this one opens up with the camera aimed straight up at the velvety-gray sky, with dry little flakes of snow drifting down. It also cuts in about halfway through a sentence--]}

--ime to get some winter gear... Hey, network. Please enjoy five minutes of my dog being a spaz.

_{[It swivels down to focus on the plaza-- looks like Heather's walking back to the hotel from work and is finally getting a chance to enjoy the flurries (though she's c-c-c-cold. The whole sleeveless routine won't work for too much longer...). The flagstones are dusted with snow, and-- ... as promised, Cujo is being a spaz.]}

[The orange-colored pup is lying on his side in the snow and just sort of... wriggling in place, snorfling around in the MAGICAL WHITE STUFF THAT IS FALLING FROM THE SKY. After a few seconds or two he suddenly surges upright, butt in the air and ears standing straight up. He stares, glassy-eyed, at the camera for a few seconds, and then lets out an explosive snort and goes tearing off in a random direction.]

['Zilla the toddler Totodile appears on the screen then, slipping and sliding after him through the snow at a laughably slower pace-- changing direction a few times as Cujo goes rocketing past in the opposite direction. Eventually he gives up and comes waddling back to Heather with a frustrated gargle. She laughs.]

Maybe when you get longer legs, buddy-- hey, let's see how Arty likes the snow. Ya like the snow, Arty?

_{[The camera turns and shows... well, this.]}

RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.....

.... I think she likes it.

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Phoenix Wright? Why, yes, I do! I've presided over quite a few of his cases as judge! You're one of his friends, I presume?

[And he is not surprised because Mr. Wright, and Mr. Edgeworth, to a lesser extent, have this odd tendency to attract teenaged girls to them.]

_{[They're just teenage girl magnets, the both of 'em. What scamps.]}

Uh-- yeah! Yeah, you could say that.

Nice guy.

Oh, certainly. And he's a top-rate defense attorney if I've ever seen one, though his methods are... somewhat unconventional, to say the least.

Unconventional?

_{[GOLLY GEE. Phoenix had seemed... pretty dry and by-the-book to Heather, but... then again, he'd surprised her by actually being interested in REAL justice, so...]}

Yes. I never know what to expect whenever he steps into the courtroom- even if it doesn't look like he has a good case, he tends to save the best turnabouts until last.

Why, he's probably the first lawyer on record to cross-examine a parrot!

... A parrot? Seriously?

_{[Now she looks REALLY curious. Phoenix hadn't actually told her much about his court cases.]}

Very seriously. It's a very long story that I may not be at liberty to repeat, but the parrot turned out to be important enough that the prosecution tried to retrain it to sabotage the defense's case.

Whoa.

I'll have to ask Phoenix about that.

I had no idea his cases were so... weird.

"Weird" doesn't even begin to describe it. Why, I've lost track of the number of times that I nearly banged my own thumb because he'd shout "OBJECTION!" just before I hand down a guilty verdict!

... Eheh, I can see that pretty easily.

_{[Good lord hopefully she won't catch onto his tendency to yell OBJECTION! because she would start using it against him immediately. "no Heather I don't want to come outside and let you throw snow at me--" "OBJECTION!"]}

Come to think of it, how did you come to know Mr. Wright, er... I apologize, what was your name again, young lady?

Er-- Mason. Heather Mason.

And uh-- well, funny story, actually.

_{[She'd met him first over the 'Gear and gotten to know him through mutual "family member from another time period awkwardness, WAT DO", but it was safe to say that their friendship had really bloomed when she had BEATEN THE CRAP OUT OF HIM BY ACCIDENT in Violet.]}

But I met him here. I'm not from the same place you guys are. 'Least I don't think.

_{[Their California might be the same as her California for all she knew, but even if it was the same Earth they were from, she'd never met any of the LAWYER ARMY before.]}

I see! Well, it's nice to meet you, Ms. Mason. And... I suppose we have Johto to thank for all of this... all of this this. [He gestures helplessly. Seriously, WHY DOES THIS PLACE KEEP WRECKING TIME AND SPACE AND PHYSICS]

Not from the same- well, you are from Maine, and I don't think any of us has relatives up there. [Yeah, the "from different worlds" thing kind of flew over his head.]

I honestly stopped expecting this place to make sense a long time ago, I'm afraid.

And-- well, yeah. Yeah, pretty much. It's all the way across the country after all.

... that's quite true. Why, all these Pokemon seem like something out of a fairy tale, and here they are, breathing fire and electricity and who knows what else!

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