An offer of charity. Eleyna looked at Naomi, indignant.<span style="color: blue">No thank you.</span>She said, returning to her sleeping bag. She didn't want Naomi's pity. She didn't want anyone's pity.<br/><br/>She departed from Naomi, returning to her sleeping bag and sitting back down on it. She put Growlithe's Pokeball back into her bag, gathered up the rest of its contents strewn on the sleeping back and put it all back in and closing it. She opened her sleeping bag and got in, not bothering to take off her shoes or any of it. She rolled over, looking away from the camp, trying not to listen to them. She realized as she looked down at the sleeping bag that it was covered in soot the fire having blackened her clothes and face. Everything that had happened that night, and now her sleeping bag was dirty. She wanted to cry, but in the confines of the sleeping bag her exhaustion had finally caught up to her. Her first day as a trainer and she'd witnessed an attack from a Legendary Pokemon, nearly been killed in a brush fire she was half responsible. How many people had seen a Pokemon like a Suicune she wondered. Her mother never had. It was strange, she thought as she drifted away to sleep, to see a Legenedary Pokemon. Seeing one was supposed to be an omen.<br/><br/><br/>***<br/><br/><br/>Eleyna woke and pulled her sooty sleeping bag closer. The night air was still cool about her. Only the distant glow on the peaks of the eastern mountain range showed the coming dawn. She lay for a long moment, drifting between sleep and waking dreams. Eventually the smell of morning dew clinging to the valley with a low hanging mist roused her. She sat up. Yesterday had become a memory, like a bad dream. She looked around the camp at the erected tents, the fire pit which had died down in the night and had become smoldering cinders with a wispy line of smoke snaking lazily into the air.<br/><br/>Eleyna slipped from the sleeping bag and wrapped it around herself in the morning chill, sitting and looking out over the valley. All the world was still asleep, wrapped up in a calm silence like a warm blanket, waiting for the suns first rays to wake gently into dawn. How many mornings like this had her mother seen, Eleyna wondered, out on her journey. Had she ever seen one like this, in such a place.<br/><br/>The sun began to crest the eastern ridge, and the camp began stirring again. It wasn't long before the camp had been packed after a brisk breakfast. Eleyna kept to herself nibbling on a prepared snack, not wanting to be bothered by the others. She had already been the center of an unwanted attention. She tried not to be conspicuous as they set out toward the glittering blue gem of the valley.<br/><br/>As they crossed through the fields, a breeze came rolling in from the east, making the green fields move like water. There was something in that breeze that made her stop. All around the valley the Pokemon seemed to pause as one, looking to the east. Even those Pokemon who belonged in the group felt the call. It was something Eleyna could not fathom, some feeling at the edge of their being, a joint communion with something unknown. She didn't know why, but that warm breeze carried on it a comfort.<br/><br/>The mood was decidedly lighter than it had been the previous day. A sense of familiarity had begun to form among the group. Even Eleyna, couldn't help but smile as they talked and joked. The anxiety had faded away, and the excitement set in. They were at the precipice of something grand, the first steps taken on a journey that would define them.<br/><br/>As mid day neared, they arrived at the south eastern edge of the lake. Waves lapped at the sandy shore, and the humidity was cool in the warm air. The lake, nearly one and a half kilometers in width, sparkled beneath the blue sky. They followed along the eastern shore to the remnants of a camp that hadn't seen use for near a week. A fire pit sat unused, the ring of stones blackened at their center where ash and charred logs lay. In the sand was a half buried fishing rod, which, with some maintenance would be usable again. Pulled up next to the fire pit was a rubber dinghy, sand clinging to it with grass scattered about where a Pokemon had deemed it a suitable resting place. An on board motor lay propped above the sand, inspection would deem it still usable and reasonably fueled. Inside was a container with emergency medical supplies and food stuffed haphazardly. The camp was likely left  by one, or many groups that had come through the area, each using as needed and leaving things for the next.<br/><br/>The sandy shore continued along the lake to the north where the terrain rose and became a rocky shoal. A river ran from the eastern mountain range, out of the forest, ending in a small waterfall the poured over the rocks and down into a small shallow inlet. A distance beyond the rising rocky terrain became a bluff looking over the lake where a cavern grotto lay visible from the inlet or river above.<br/><br/>At the edge of the beach to the east where the grass began was a flat, open patch of earth. Only new seedling grass grew there. The ground had been trampled down from use when previous camps had trained Pokemon. The ground was even and solid. Beyond, the grass grew long and unruly.<br/><br/>The surface of the lake broke where the shallows ended and the deep water lay. Eleyna couldn't tell what Pokemon had disturbed it, but she could only imagine the water Pokemon that lived there.<br/><br/>They deemed the area suitable, and Eleyna set down her bag and sleeping bag, blackened with soot, as was she. She looked down the shore to where she could just barely see the edge of the waterfall in the inlet. Oh how she needed a bath! And not just her, all of her things too. She'd need to wash her clothes, her sleeping bag. Getting her hair clean again would be a chore as well. Eleyna took off her boots and smiled, squeezing her toes in the sand. She dropped theboots beside her bag, picked up her sleeping bag and announced.<span style="color: blue">I'm going to go over there and get clean. None of you boys better go snooping!</span>She huffed, and headed down the beach, enjoying the feeling of the sand between her toes which hadn't had a chance to breath since she left.<br/><br/><br/><br/><span style="text-decoration: underline">Lake Zone</span><br/><br/><b>Immediate area:</b><br/><br/>At Shore:<br/>Remnants of a camp site.<br/>•	Rubber Dinghy<br/>•	Fire pit at the shore, looks to be more than a week old.<br/>•	A fishing rod lays partially covered in the sand.<br/><br/>At Shoals (North):<br/>Rocky terrain.<br/>•	Rocky terrain rises and forms around a small inlet where a river runs from the mountains to the lake in a small waterfall pouring down on the shallows.<br/>•	Shoals hold many crevices, Pokemon Encounter Zone.<br/><br/>At Field (East):<br/>Clearing on the edge of tall grass.<br/>•	Tall grass can hide many thing, Pokemon Encounter Zone.<br/>•	Clearing of solid earth, shows signs of Pokemon battle. A training zone from when the camp was previously active.<br/>•	Grass may hide berry bushes, Food source.<br/><br/><br/><b>Short distance:</b><br/><br/>At Deep Water (West):<br/>Water Pokemon hot zone, excellent fishing ground. Accessible with Dinghy.<br/>•	Aquatic Pokemon feeding and habitation area, Pokemon Encounter Zone.<br/>•	Food source.<br/><br/>At Grotto (North):<br/>Beyond the shoals, a cave mouth among the rocks. Accessible by foot or by Dinghy.<br/>•	Contents unknown.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>