<div class="floatleft">(http://i.imgur.com/jMlCWlF.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Althea Hawthorn<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Pine's Lab<br/><strong>With:</strong>Daniel, Carter, Naozumi, Graham, Pine<br/><strong>Notes:</strong><br/><strong>Pokémon:</strong>Brigid (Kangaskhan), Lamia (Ekans)<br/><div class="floatright">(https://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/4/4e/115Kangaskhan.png/250px-115Kangaskhan.png)</div><div class="floatright">(https://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/f/fa/023Ekans.png/250px-023Ekans.png)</div><div class="floatright">(http://i.imgur.com/qhaKUWB.jpg)</div><div class="floatright">(http://i.imgur.com/qhaKUWB.jpg)</div><div class="floatright">(http://i.imgur.com/qhaKUWB.jpg)</div><div class="floatright">(http://i.imgur.com/qhaKUWB.jpg)</div><br/><hr/><hr/><hr/><br/>While Pine wasn't exactly at the absolute top of the list of far more accomplished pokemon researchers that Althea wanted to meet  - who, after all, would put anyone other than Oak at that place? - she was still someone who the blonde respected. She'd never met her, of course, but she had read some of her work and now here she was, meeting her and introducing herself to her as a colleague!<br/>A substantially more junior one, yes, but still!<br/><br/>That Brigid had to push her to the door wasn't, really, all that unexpected, both Althea and her pokemon were well aware of how well she handled social situations or stress, never mind both. Still, she had prepared for this, although most definitely<em>not</em>by rehearsing in front of her mirror on the boat over here. Even if it might have sounded like that to anyone passing by and listening in.<br/><br/>She had prepared to introduce herself and maybe flirt a little -she'd practiced that, but she knew she'd never have the nerve to actually do it - but she had neglected to consider what to do if she ended up on the floor, Pine's taller body above her.<br/>The other woman was quite pretty, she noted as Pine's face hovered just above hers, the brunette's hair falling around them both. There might have been a bit of a squeak from the blonde as the brunette looked up from the blonde's chest, their bodies tangled together in ways that the junior researcher found most interesting and worthy of further study.<br/><br/>Pine didn't seem to be too affected by their wonderful collision, so Althea tried to affect the same manner, even if her red cheeks and inability to form words played against those efforts. At Pine's greeting, Althea simply smiled shyly and nodded, hoping that someone else would speak so that she could have time to recover from the feelings that had gotten her so distracted.