<span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Davey enjoyed the time, just walking and talking with Jackie.  The time and the kilometers passed easily.  Eventually the sun hung low in the sky, just as they reached a marker on the route indicating that Gloucester City was still twelve miles away.  The pair again found a suitable camp site and helped each other with tents, fire-making and cooking.  Davey foraged for a bit and found some berry bushes which yielded six ripe berries:  two spicy figgy berries, two sour iapapa berries and two sweet mago berries.  The dinner was delicious and Davey, like the first night, complemented Jackie about her cooking skills.<br/>
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After dinner, they inspected their pokémon and updated the info on their growing teams into their Pokédexes.  Kraken's power and abilities had grown but he only had about half of the training and experience that he needed to evolve into a Tentacruel.  Xena was fully evolved, probably, but Davey had heard rumors of a temporary evolution that was possible and time would tell if he ever saw that happen....  Pearl was quite newer than her other team mates, but she'd picked up a new attack move.  Pearl was also likely to evolve before Kraken and Davey would soon have to decide if he should see if she liked another pokémon enough to mate with before she became an infertile Nidorina, but it was possible that he could also delay her evolution....<br/>
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Then there were the pokémon eggs that the mythical pokémon Celebi had given them....  The egg that Davey had was largely different shades of brown with a zig-zag line around it and some diamond shapes.  Davey pondered if Celebi had chosen something to suit Davey's character or if Celebi had read Davey's mind and divined what new pokémon Davey would like.  He hoped that it wasn't something like a Magikarp, not that they didn't evolve into something awesome, but because Davey wasn't sure he had the patience to raise something like that... maybe.<br/>
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Davey was running out of things to talk about.  He was tempted to mention the moon and the stars that seemed so much brighter out in nature than they seemed in the towns and cities.  Should he tell her how pretty he thought she was?  Would she think that he was <i>trying</i> to be romantic?  Well, yes, he was but Jackie hadn't given him any indication that she was interested in him or the other young men that they'd traveled with.<br/>
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"By the way," Davey confessed, "I don't want you to think that I was keeping secrets but I didn't want to come off as bragging about my Aunt.  Since you'll be meeting her, I may as well tell you that she's a very successful business woman.  My aunt owns a very big beauty and cosmetics company, called, 'Exceptionelle'.  I hope that the two of you will get along.  Maybe she'll want you to be a model?"<br/>
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There were some smiles and the fire got low.  Time for sleep.  Davey put all of his team into their Pokéballs for the night, even Xena, because he didn't want them wandering off and getting lost.  Davey smiled, thinking about Jackie before he dozed off in his sleeping bag and tent.  Actually, he found that he had to think of something else to get to sleep because girls were just too damn exciting.</span></span>