foolishwren | 75. [Video/Action for Olivine City] Backdated to Saturday morning + afternoon

_{[So something happened that morning. Something ... owly.]

[What, exactly, do you do when you suddenly find yourself in possession of way more fluffy spherical owls than anyone would know what to do with?]

[... TRY AND MAKE SOME MONEY OFF OF THEM, OF COURSE!]

[Anyone in Olivine City, whether they've settled down with a house or are just staying there temporarily, may witness a rather odd sight on this sunny Saturday afternoon.]

[A teenage girl and a scruffy twenty-something man, toting bold-printed signs and... what seems to be a large red wagon full of Hoothoots]

[Behind them, a rambunctious oversized Growlithe, and-- a little further back-- a middle-aged fellow in a brown coat (despite the summer heat), toting a Togepi and a Pichu and keeping his distance, because it's totally uncool for a parent to walk right next to the kids while they're trick-or-treating (although either he or one of the Pokemon would seem to be filming them surreptitiously with the 'Gear on and off, judging by the snippets of Hoothoot Sale Adventures occasionally popping up on the network).]

[... Or in this case, being the best little owl salesmen ever. Even if Henry doesn't particularly look like he wants to be there. Still, the little parade almost looks like it needs some kind of ridiculous owl-selling theme music.]

[Throughout the day, if anyone has a residence in Olivine, they may have THIS show up on their doorstep:]}

_{[... And the girl will glance over at her companion, see that he's not planning on speaking up, and then clear her throat loudly.]}

HEY there, good sir and-or madam!

Would you like to buy an owl?

[ooc: Anyone over the network is free to purchase their own adorable roly-poly spherical owl for 500P! It's assumed that any left will be sold to people here and there in Olivine. Except for the derpiest two. Heather has special recipients in mind for those.]

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Yeah. It was everywhere. But James didn't seem to see it. It made me wonder if I was going crazy.

[She doesn't offer more. It's too personal and too mixed up in her own private thoughts.]

_{[Heather sure can't speak for the personal level... but after a moment's contemplative lip-chewing, she pipes up.]}

... The way that place works... I think people see different things. It... changes. Depending.

James didn't see the same things as me, either.

_{[The monsters and environment he'd described had been similar, but it just hadn't meshed up exactly. Even the things her father had seen all those years ago had differed a little.]}

Yeah... But I don't know how it works. It makes next to no sense, you know?

How can one person see what another person can't? And he saw some of it. I think... I think he saw my father. And he saw the fire at the end. He mentioned it.

[She offers no further details.]

Yeah, making sense of it just doesn't work. Y'just gotta sort of... go with it. _{[Part of her feels like apologizing for having been responsible for making the town the way it was... or at least making it powerful enough to hurt outsiders. She never told James the truth about that...]

[But that sort of confession is a little much for Heather to deal with right now, so she settles for grimacing a little awkwardly and rubbing the back of her neck.]}

It's... complicated.

_{[... Her father? ... Okay, Heather's not much of a people-reader, but the more bits and pieces Angela drops, the more sense she starts to make...]}

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I wasn't really too concerned with it while I was there. Other things on my mind. But now I keep thinking about it a lot more.

[She shakes her head.]

It doesn't matter. We're free of it now.

_{[That's one thing Heather is all too happy to agree with.]}

Yeah.

This place is a second chance. For all of us.

_{[Whatever Angela had gone through, Heather doesn't know... but she's got no doubt now that this place is a hell of a lot more pleasant than wherever Angela had come from before... even outside of the town.]}

Yeah. I can agree with that.

[Her voice holds a shred of determination.]

_{[And that earns a big smile from Heather-- an encouraging one.]}

M'glad you're back.

You can't be more glad of it than I am. [She laughs a little, nervous though it is.]

I guess not!

But then, I'm glad we're all here.

_{[Because... seriously, anywhere is better than that place.]}