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89. [Video/Action for travel group]

_{[A short while after the singing wild Pokemon and egg presents had died down, a rather unfortunate discovery was made upon dialing a number she'd been meaning to dial ever since Claudia Wolf and Kaito Kuroba had disappeared from Johto.]

[Already on the road, the weather's mild enough (even with the wind picking up) that Heather decided that was pretty much a good time to pocket her Valentine's Day present and just head off for a walk. Because lord knows, she needs one.]

[It's not the first time Johto has given everyone the gift of a precious little egg, but it is the first time that Heather's found herself resenting it.]

[The video feed pops on, focused in on a tiny, pale yellow little egg hardly bigger than a chicken's, nestled in the palm of Heather's hand as dry grass goes past underfoot.]}

It would be so easy to just... crush it.

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_{[She's grateful for having her father back. But that doesn't make up for the loss of the other people who she'd come to consider family. It doesn't work like that-- no matter how much she'd actively tried to convince herself that it did.]

[But she doesn't need his forgiveness, or anybody's. It's not like sympathy would change anything.]}

Never once crossed my mind that it would.

_{[Nothing brings people back, after all. Except for the whim of the world.]}

Then what's the point? Everybody loses people, here.

We don't go beating up Pokemon or crushing eggs, though. And last time I checked, you didn't either.

_{[... If she weren't in the throes of the biggest breakdown she's had since her father had disappeared, she'd have given him a raised-eyebrow at the claim that they didn't go around beating up Pokemon. Isn't that sort of what being a trainer is all about?]

[But the irony of the statement, while not LOST on her, isn't something she cares to point out at the moment.]}

There is no point.

We all lose people and nothing changes that.

Neither would this.

There's no point.

_{[And that's why, in the same awful, bloodthirsty way she sometimes crushed the bodies of the things she'd killed, long after they could no longer do any harm to her, she's thinking about crushing an egg.]}

[He doesn't go around punching his eevee because it can't see. :|]

There's no point in sitting around moping, either.

People disappear, people die. It's not any different from at home--except you get the chance to do things over, here.

I know what I say isn't going to matter in the end, but if I disappear and anybody acts like this over it? I'm going to be really mad.

At home there's graves. Bodies. Addresses. SOMETHING.

_{[Her voice is thick with disgust, but it's not at Ken, or even at the egg. It doesn't seem to be about anyone or anything in particular. It just is.]}

Anyway, maybe they would be mad. Actually, I know they would be. _{[Claudia especially... Heather can practically see the look of horror on her old childhood friend's face. ... Maybe that's part of why the thought of crushing the egg entered her mind in the first place.]}

But I'm sick of sitting and moping and hoping it goddamn well gets better.

Because that's as pointless as everything else.

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