foolishwren | 64. [Voice/Action for Goldenrod] Backdated to Friday/Thursdayish.

_{[It's probably been a week and a half or so since anybody's heard a whole lot from Heather's end of the line-- given the recent turn of events, coupled with catching up on things with her father, she just hasn't been talking much.]

[But if anyone missed the sound of yet another ranty teenager on the 'Gear network, well, today their wishes and hopes will be realized.]

[A crackle of interference precedes her voice, and in the background there's the steady rumble of a Steelix making headway on a dirt path.]}

Heeeey Johto, what's crackin'?

Totally fell off the face of the planet for a bit there.

Anyway, for those who care, Goldenrod just came into sight over the hill, so Dad and I'll be strolling into town within a couple hours, probably.

I'll be lookin' for a few of you as soon as we get checked in and stuff-- you guys know who you are. _{[She's lookin' at you, Kaito. Dinner plans aside, she still needs to give him that hug.]}

And uh-- Snake, you still in the hotel? I'll heal Solid up at the Center first if you want me to, but otherwise, I'm sure he'll be glad to see his Trainer. Sorry the trip wound up takin' so long.

Anyway, uh-- ... see you guys in a few hours.

... Feel free to call me up and chat, though, the road's dusty and it's a real bore to look at for hours on end.

_{[ooc: For Action, feel free to encounter Heather in the hotel lobby or Pokemon Center healin' up her monsters after arriving.]}

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Yeah... I mean, I miss Grandma, but it's like... I almost don't want to go back. Even more now than I did before.

Yeah, I...

_{[She laughs a little sheepishly, shifting the egg from hand to hand.]}

... There's... nothing back there for me.

_{[Only Douglas... poor ol' guy. He was legitimately the only thing that ever made her miss her world. ... But even he wasn't enough for her to want to go back. ... Especially not now that she had her father here.]}

-- Oh right, your dad...

[ Rise's not sure what it's like, having found someone you thought you'd lost, only to know you'll lose them again when you go home. It's... a little disheartening. ]

Yeah.

_{[She looks contemplative for a moment or so.]}

... We didn't have anybody else. No grandparents or aunts or uncles or family friends or anything. It was just me and him.

_{[She was lucky she'd even had Douglas there to be supportive during her last year of high school. If he'd died during the incident in Silent Hill, she really wouldn't have had anybody. Getting through school had been hard enough even while her father had been alive...]}

... I don't wanna go back to that.

I don't blame you... it sounds rough. [ Rise's voice is quiet with sympathy-- not pity, because there's a difference. ] Especially after being here.

... Yeah.

I'd live.

... But I'd like to do more than just live.

_{[It's hard to hide-- the thought of returning to that dingy old apartment... being all alone again... it's not a happy one. Even though she knows damn well that she'd find a way to claw her way into a happy life again, someday... why the hell would she want to go back when she had that HERE? ... When she had the thing that had mattered MOST to her here?]}

Doesn't everyone? I don't blame you, and even if this place can get on my last nerve sometimes... I really do love it here. With my friends, and the Pokémon, and just... being me here, with people liking me for that.

[ it's going to be a lot harder back home, where there were already preconceptions. ]

Yeah, don't get me wrong, I have my bones to pick with this place... but yeah. Just. For all the reasons you said.

Even though I'm sure I'd wind up happy somehow in the end, I don't think-- .... I know I would never have what I have here.

_{[On Earth, Harry Mason was GONE. And he wasn't coming back. Even if, by lots of effort and a few twists of fate, she was able to track down the friends she had made here back in the 'real' world, she would never, ever get her father back.]}

... Maybe I should've had this talk with you earlier, so I could hug you without worrying about the egg.

_{[... Aw, Rise.]

[A grin stretching across Heather's face, she sets the egg down neatly between her boots so it wouldn't roll away, then leans over to embrace Rise-- a little more calmly than their first hug that day.]}

[ WHAT, DON'T YOU APPRECIATE MY ENTHUSIASM-- but that gets a smile and a return hug from Rise. You deserve to be happy, dammit. ]

_{[SHE APPRECIATES IT! ... JUST NOT AS MUCH WHEN SHE'S SORE FROM THE ROAD!]

[In any case, she hugs her friend tightly-- smiling genuinely while she does so. If there's one thing she's MORE than pleased to report? It's that here and now, she's VERY happy.]}

We'll just have to make sure you don't go anywhere.

[ maybe it's foolish to say, but if Heather's happy here, she deserves that much. ]

_{[Jeez, Rise, you're making her eyes sting. Heather discretely moves one arm from the hug to take a swipe at her eyes. 'Cause, y'know, there was something in 'em.]}

Sounds like a plan t'me.

Aww, is someone getting all sniffly on me?

Pfft, shaddup.

It's okay, your eyes aren't that red.

_{[She grins briefly against Rise's shoulder before pulling out of the hug.]}

They'll never be as red as yours were that one time.

That was a special case!

So's this.

_{[She's just grinning now-- surely you don't think she's gonna get teary EVERY time a sentimental moment crops up, do you Rise?]}

I think we're even.

[ if only. ]

Oh, come on, you didn't even sob--!

I guess I'm just too gosh-darn stoic and manly.

... You sound way too proud of that.

You say it like that's a bad thing!

But you're not really that stoic.

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