**Vermillion City**<br/><br/>"Wonderful." Micah chuckled, "Rayne it is."<br/><br/>At that moment, the bus pulled up, its engine rumbling and its brakes hissing as it stopped. The doors opened, and the people gathered around made a push to get inside. Micah was a bit more polite about his advance, and let everyone else get on first. Then, once the others had gotten inside, he stepped back and gestured for Renna to go in ahead of him as well.<br/><br/>"Ladies first, Miss Rayne." He allowed.<br/><br/><hr/><br/>**Bus to Palette Town**<br/><br/>As the vehicle pulled away from the curb and the bus station faded behind them, Micah sat comfortably in his seat and watched the buildings go by outside his window. Anticipation in seeing his family after too long apart from them made him feel surprisingly talkative, and he voiced his interest in things ranging from pokemon to food to traveling. Anything that came to mind, he willingly talked about.<br/><br/>Vermillion drifted behind them slowly as the bus wound its way through the streets until it reached one of the main roads out of town. Set in its course thusly, it wasn't all that long before the gleaming buildings passed behind them and open road stretched on ahead.<br/><br/>"I guess I should tell you." Micah said after some time, "That when I'm with my family, I go by another name entirely. And just so that you know ahead of time, I don't mind if you call me by it too. I'm Micah. Norman is my middle name, but I tend to use it more often than my first."<br/><br/>