Pokemon: The Shopping District

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Once you've left behind the quaint little houses where everyone lives, you'll reach the shopping district. Here you'll find all kinds of restaurants and whether it's a cute cafe with desserts and drinks or a fancy place with four-star, four course menus both people and Pokemon are welcome. There are also a number of salon, costume, and toy shops catering solely to Pokemon so you can dress and pamper your partner properly. You can also procure raw items and tools to build and decorate those homes for your Pokemon from a number of the shops in the area.

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[softlyfalling]

Were you so determined?

[forgottenmercy]

He was the, ah, local area administrator. I, ah, wanted to try to influence him to be...kinder in enforcing the High Lady's decrees.

[softlyfalling]

...ah. I'm sorry.

[ she knows how that kind of thing goes. ]

[forgottenmercy]

...I do not, ah, know how that worked out in the end, but I do know that at some point, he became Anathema.

[softlyfalling]

...oh.

I admit that wasn't the end to that story that I expected.

[forgottenmercy]

What were you, ah, expecting...?

[softlyfalling]

Something more mundane, for starters.

[forgottenmercy]

That, ah, makes sense.

...though I, ah, do not know the circumstances.

[softlyfalling]

I suppose before we'd seen some of Eclipse's memories, I would have believed it to be a curse or a demon, but—to be chosen by the Sun would require no small feat, I imagine.

[ she wanders over to a nearby bench. ]

[forgottenmercy]

...I, ah, do not know what it could have been. I, ah, only saw the aftermath in one of my memories.

[gently encourages Airi to go over to the bench with him] ...he, ah, killed an entire Wyld Hunt.

[softlyfalling]

[ she winces. ]

I suppose the fearsomeness of the Anathema isn't all mythical.

[forgottenmercy]

It, ah, seems not. And he was already a skilled, ah, swordsman before.

[softlyfalling]

[ she rests her arms on her knees, and tosses another treat to Simha, who catches it out of the air. ]

...were any of them known to you? On the Wyld Hunt, I mean.

[forgottenmercy]

[he offers another berry to Airi.]


...his, ah, wife, his principal spouse, Lady Sakiko.

[softlyfalling]

Ah. I'm sorry—were you close?

[forgottenmercy]

[Airi comes to nestle against him, as if sensing his mood.]

...I, ah, do not remember for certain. I know that she was, ah, fond of me, and asked me to deliver her death poem to her daughter.

...and I, ah, know that I gave her that final mercy.

[softlyfalling]

A small bit of final comfort, at least. You're a good steward to the dying and the dead.

[forgottenmercy]

I, ah, try to be, anyway.

[softlyfalling]

Do you suppose that's how you found your way to necromancy...?

[forgottenmercy]

I, ah, knew a little, when I gave her that mercy. But it, ah, makes sense that in general it was probably how I did...

[softlyfalling]

I’d say it’s a bit rare, to see a wandering necromancer focus on such things... at least in the places I know.

[forgottenmercy]

...do, ah, most of them focus on creating zombies, or...?

[softlyfalling]

Or calling upon ghosts for knowledge or service, I suppose.

It was... not my thing, though.

[forgottenmercy]

Lack of interest and aptitude, or, ah...?

[softlyfalling]

Well, I was, ah—recruited to be a soldier and not a sorcerer, I suppose.

The way it was used... never quite sat right with me, anyway.

[ she tosses another treat in the air; Simha almost catches it but has to go scampering after it as it hits the ground and rolls away slightly. ]