audio, backdated to during the Dragafloat Festival

[telewarped]

[Following a successful but taxing bounty quest, Shoka has been stuck in the Pokéclinic since the 15th—and judging by the way the clinic Pokémon look at her and the way her stupid, freak body keeps telling her it's somehow still on fire, even when it totally isn't, she's going to be stuck there for some time. She can still walk, kind of, and it doesn't hurt all the time, so if anyone were to ask her, she'd tell them that this amount of caution is entirely unnecessary... But no one did ask her.

The Grumpearl message comes in darkness; no visuals or even true audio—just pure thought:]

This bites. I wanna go to the festival!

Maybe I can sneak out...?

[This is almost definitely the Grumpearl version of a butt-dial. In Shoka's case, it's more of a head-dial, considering that her pearl is still stowed away inside the hollow of her disguise's false Pikachu head.]

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[telewarped]

[Woah. What is even going on over there? Shoka watches in bewildered silence, at first unsure what to make of what she's seeing. Did she say something wrong? She didn't think so, but A.B.A does tend to take things pretty literally (and personally)...

Eventually, however, when A.B.A returns and asks her that, of all things, she... thinks she understands. A.B.A said once that her biggest fear was someone taking Paracelsus from her. To offer to bring him (it!) to Shoka...]