(quick)<br/><br/><span style="color: blue">Ugh, you'll be the first to know.</span>Eleyna answered, digging her tumbs into her calf and running them up and down trying to ease the tension. Mostly it just hurt.<br/><br/>Eleyna sat silent as Naomi began wondering aloud at the state of things. Her mention of badges made Eleyna's lip twinge. But it was an interesting notion she brought up. Eleyna's mother had warned her that a Pokemon journey would not be like she may expect - but she doubted even her mother knew how true the statement was. She had wandered Kanto and Johto, places that had seen human kind, balanced and maintained rigorously. But here the rules were different.<br/><br/>But as Naomi went on, and the thoughts sank in, it made Eleyna wonder. Shrines, Rituals, all the old things she read about and books and saw during the holidays had all meant something once, had all existed for a reason. Coexistence with Pokemon had never been something she had really had to consider; it had simple be a given, a norm established over thousands of years of cohabitation between the species.<br/><br/>Her thoughts were cut short as someone joined them, and not someone they recognized. Eleyna stiffened in the presence of the stranger. Her mention of Saisho flashed images of the Suicune, a sharp stab of fear followed the memory. She frowned a little, not sure she understood the implication of the newcomer, Lydia's, comment.<span style="color: blue">Wait, doesn't everyone in Utsumi know?</span>She asked looking back at Naomi in confusion.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>