3rd Quest [Video, after completing Heads or Tails]

[bladeofnymeia]

[It's finally a sunny, warm day, hot but not terribly humid, and perfect for laying out bolts of felt to dry after May's deluge of rain. Or, well, to let them dry after being cleaned to ensure there's no mold or mildew or anything gross trying to grow on the fabric Firoza has worked so hard to make. And as she sits in the middle of this fabric drying in the sun, her mind wanders towards her efforts with Laios and Emmett to locate a missing Pokemon. The eerie feeling, the thought that came unbidden, the state that Zweilous was found in...

She has to talk about this. She has to express this. And when she comes in over the Grumpearls, you can get that sense of concern and confusion settling around her, making the sunny day a bit dimmer as a result.]

I don't recall Zweilous having gone missing before our arrival here. Has this Pokemon wandered off before?

[She hums, little Nidoran brow furrowed. It's important to note that she's finally started to keep her bandana pulled down again, and her right cheek (her right) has a wispy scar trailing across it, like tendrils of flame licking out. It's all healed, it doesn't look grotesque, but wow it sure is there!]

There's just...a feeling I had. "No, no, not again"...and I couldn't shake how familiar it was, to know you are missing a name and face, but you cannot put it together. Though how it can be familiar I'm not sure...

[Tap tap tap goes a paw, impatient as she thinks.]

Have any of you felt something similar, from a mission? Or am I overthinking this?

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[dunchies]

[ This whole conversation makes him feel some sort of way, but he has to chime in, too. ]

The way Stunky talked about Zweilous made them sound like... one Pokemon. I just wonder how they managed to get out of the clinic this many times...

[bladeofnymeia]

[Why the fuck is no one watching the patients. What is going on. All of her healer friends would be disgusted.]

'Twould be wrong to restrain them, but at the same time, if it keeps happening...

[outbounds]

There are only so many Pokemon at the clinic.

But still. The way Stunky talked about Zweilous. It does not sound like they expected Zweilous to be at the clinic.

[ it sounded more like they expected Zweilous to be ambulatory? 'where they might have gone,' like ... on their own power?

unless they're just not notifying friends or family when someone ends up this ill. ]

[bladeofnymeia]

...I say this with great concern and kindness. Mayhap they both ought to be at the clinic?

[Stunky seems absolutely unaware that their friend is straight up not doing okay.]

[dunchies]

I don’t disagree, even if Stunky did seem more, uh, normal in comparison. [ That Zweilous was not looking good. ]

Memory gaps are one thing, but to keep repeating it, over and over... it’s a bit like what Zweilous was talking about, right? Doing it all over.

[bladeofnymeia]

...That...would be a less troublesome reason. Still concerning, but less...mm. The word's...existential?

[outbounds]

Phantump was heard saying the same thing, but...

There's something I have been wondering, actually. Go ahead and keep talking but also hold on. I will report back later.

[ please hold I will probably either respond to this as a 2/2 or start a new subheader somewhere, we'll find out— ]

2/2

[outbounds]

[ okay yeah never mind it's over here. ]