He didn't understand her. She spoke and she watched his face quirk his eyebrows up in question, still silent and still unmoving. TorchChick paced, seemingly at a loss over what to do.<br/>Back in the bowels of the factory, TorchChick seemed unconcerned with whatever Ridge was fiddling with, her eyes occupied with watching the way his wet shirt stuck to his chest. She seemed either foolish or brave as she strode up to him, her flames dying to nothing more than a smolder as she literally placed herself nose to nose.  There was something about this human that stayed her hand. He looked a mess. Face flushed, breath haggard and body sweating bullets. The longer he stayed there the worse it seemed to get. He reminded her of someone-a memory that now seemed all too clear: a stubbled chin and masculine hands showing her how to work and live in this factory a long time ago. A gruff voice saying her name.<br/><br/>Boldly, she reached out to grip his labcoat, giving it a tug, watching the fabric pucker and stretch.<strong>"Chic ch-ch,</strong>" she exclaimed with a furrowed brow, pointing towards the path he'd come from with her other hand, encouraging him to seek the way out. Ridge replied without words, but with action, his arm arcing across them both, bottle clutched in hand. TorchChick tried to pull back, dodge out of the way, but instead caught the full brunt of the spilled water- the liquid hissing and popping angrily as it made contact with her body. She made a sound of surprise, falling to her knees as Ridge made a break for it. She growled, glared and tried to lift her body to follow, but was overcome by fatigue, water dripping off her nose.<br/><br/>She silently cursed at herself for putting her guard down, for running the other pokegirls off simply to sate her curiosity. She couldn't help herself. She thought....well ,whatever she thought  she didn't linger to see Ridges disappearance, but rather tried to crawl her way on all fours to the opposite end of the catwalk, hoping to find heat and refuge in the bubbling vat of molten metal down below.<br/>