After cleaning up, Naomi had taken some time to compose her report for the professor. She included everything she could, the state of the Master ball, the encounter with the o-kami, and ended with her opinion that opening this refuge to development and a flood of trainers was a bad idea, guaranteed to ruin the very qualities people would want to move here for. And sent it off.<br/><br/>She couldn't get to sleep anyway, not for hours. 'Tai had less trouble with all the excitement he'd had, curled around her feet as she sat and composed her report.<br/><br/>*****<br/><br/>Wearing the dress she'd originally arrived in Saisho with, Naomi stretched. 'Tai at her side. Some might call it a quirk, but she rarely put up her companion in his pokeball, unless he asked for it. Even Loon spent most of its time out, flying around.<br/><br/>It was the Beedrill she had no idea what to do with. She'd always had little empathy with the bug-types, and catching one was more a matter of removing a combatant from the fight quickly than a desire to actually *have* one.<br/><br/>She'd asked the others if any of them wanted it. If none of them did, she'd likely trade it through the system before they left.<br/><br/>These were all things on her mind when her host started presenting gifts of food to her.<br/><br/>Naomi gratefully and happily accepted them.<span style="color: #6495ED">"Thank you very much! I was hoping to stock up on supplies, many of us did not, ah, anticipate long journeys away from civilization. And some of us lost supplies to misfortune."</span><br/><br/>Item balls were so very useful for mass storage, and Naomi took full advantage.<br/><br/>She spotted Eleyna looking at her, and smiled. The faint blush that came to her cheeks surely didn't mean anything.<br/><br/>Joining the others, she followed when Brollem beckoned them over and down to the pier.<br/><br/><br/>As for the boat, she was relieved, surprised, and a little concerned.<span style="color: #6495ED">"If you're sure you won't need it, ah... perhaps you could teach us how to pilot this thing? Unless one of us has experience."</span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>