Mark scratched behind his head. "Sorry if it's not a good time, i just wanted to congratulate you Kiki, the crowd was going wild and in a good way too, i dunno what the judges will decide but the folks are definitely going to raise some noise if you get snubbed. I'm honestly glad for it, bigots do and always will exist, and sometimes there's more of them than good people in one place... but this town is not like that. Helps keep a positive outlook, right?"<br/>He cringed almost as soon as he said it it sounded terrible. why did being around Kiki always turn him into an idiot?<br/>"anyways that aside, i wanted to check up on you too, Kiki, on Stage you were amazing, brave and spirited, but it's when people don't look that performers get consumed by fear. are you okay?"<br/><br/>Toni in the meantime was leaving the pokemon center and making her way back to the contest site, looking around for other groups of people on the way, and maybe listening in on what they were talking about, particularly the tenor about hybrid performers and what they thought about it.<br/>In her mind she was also looking over her team and ways she could help them get stronger, ultimately it would come down to smashing more wild pokemon into the dirt, but she was determined to take her teams at the very least to the league.<br/>"wonder what jo-err Jester has planned herself, it'll no doubt blow the audience away... or wait is she even competing today? eh, i'll see."