Eleyna snatched up the Pokeball, then tipped her hat up, raising her brow.<br/><br/>"Huh... A voluntary Pokemon." It was a surprise, to be certain.<br/><br/>A light chime on her Pokedex alerted Eleyna to the hour. She popped it open, then snapped it closed.<br/><br/>"Right! If we're going to find more of this thing, then let's get moving!"<br/><br/>They ascended their way out of the cavern, finding the hillside the same as they'd left it. Eleyna returned the ever helpful Tentacruel who had opted to remain above ground then started back up the slope. The stones were uniquely cyclopean and irregular in size and shape. What had been little more than a cursory appraisal had turned into obsessive scrutiny for the girls. Hopping, climbing, and occasionally stumbling, they hiked their way across the dense and animate terrain. Most of the stones had been worn down by time, but Naomi was quick to note that they hadn't begun that way. But even so, the state of overgrowth across them, with large and ancient trees and gnarled roots snaking down into their crevices, it was clear that whatever earth moving event that made layed the mountainside out had occurred many centuries ago, at the very least. To Eleyna, however, they were mostly rocks.<br/><br/>The afternoon sun crossed the sky and disappeared through the trees, and soon the sky had begun darken into brilliant shades of violet and gold. They had made immense progress, pressing forward and ever upward in search of more signs of previous human habitation. But time had yielded only sweat stains, bruises, and sore limbs. When at last they could take no more, Eleyna collapsed onto a plateau.<br/><br/>"No..." She muttered, sitting in a heap. "No more... I can't go any further. Aughh..." She flopped onto her back.<br/><br/>Naomi similarly managed to sit, though with a measure more dignity than her companion. Her glasses hung askew on her nose as she looked out over the southern reach of Yugen's eastern island.<br/><br/>"I'm sure we would have found something by now..." Looking down at the slope of the mountain they had just ascended, she concluded, "I guess that landslide wiped out whatever the relief had been part of."<br/><br/>Eleyna mumbled something incoherently and weakly lifted her arm, raising a thumb in acceptance of Naomi's conclusion.<br/><br/>"I think it wiped me out too..."<br/><br/>Briefly righting herself Eleyna tossed out her Pokeball for Scyther and had him go to fetch firewood. Eleyna noted that he was getting much better at evaluating what was acceptable tinder. A quick puff from Growlithe later and a fire was burning.<br/><br/>Eleyna sat next to it, watching Growlithe and Rhyhorn. She'd let her new Pokemon out to stretch his legs, but was curious toward his disposition. She munched on a ration as the Rhyhorn peered down the landslide, then up the long mountain slope. Growlithe barked in an apparent response to a question Rhyhorn posed.<br/><br/>"You know..." Eleyna said, oblivious to the work Naomi was putting in on erecting the tent while she sat about. "I was thinking on our way up... I've never heard of a voluntary Pokemon before. But... but at some point there has to have been a first, right? Like a first trainer with the first Pokemon to be trained? No way a person could beat a Pokemon into submission, right? A long time ago, do you figure all Pokemon were... I don't know... convinced to join their trainers?"<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>