89. [Video/Action for travel group]

[foolishwren]

<sub>[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.]</sub>



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

Comments

[video]

[shadowdive]

Life is like that. Whether one wants to or not, a single thing they do could be the end of several others, or the beginning in a sense. Death is just part of it.

[video]

[foolishwren]

_{[They'd both know about that, wouldn't they.]}

Mnm.

[video]

[shadowdive]

[Indeed.]

Do you think you would still want to crush it even after it hatches? It might be small enough to.

[video]

[foolishwren]

_{[... She hadn't thought ahead that far. She hadn't actually WANTED to think ahead that far. It made things too weird. Too weird to think about crushing the egg, which had been what she'd wanted to STEW in.]}

I haven't decided yet.

_{[That seemed like a noncommittal enough answer.]}

[video]

[shadowdive]

Mm. [Letting a bit of silence pass through the feed, he speaks up again.]

I'd like to see what it is, if it hatches. Can't say I've seen that kind of egg before.

[video]

[foolishwren]

.... Yeah. Neither have I.

[video]

[shadowdive]

Maybe it'll be something useful. [Don't break it, Heather.]

[video]

[foolishwren]

Maybe.

<sub>[It probably would be. Most of her Pokemon are useful in one way or another...]

[But usefulness hadn't been what Heather was thinking about as she contemplated destroying it.]</sub>

[video]

[shadowdive]

Won't know unless it hatches. [Let the curiosity keep you from breaking it.]

[video]

[foolishwren]

<sub>[Probably a good strategy...]

[She just sort of.... nods. ... And then cuts the feed.]</sub>