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_{[GOOD MORNING, JOHTO!]

[THERE'S A PICTURE IN YOUR INBOX.]}

>>open file: gone.jpg

if u hav seen them mesg rath pls

thank

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_{[Are you in Goldenrod City or its surrounding territories?]

[Then YOU JUST MIGHT HAVE THE LUCK to be approached by a small child in increasingly-grubby conditions as the day goes on. You'd think he'd have learned his lesson about approaching strangers by this point, but if he has, it's not stopping him.]

[He will approach anyone and everyone who stops long enough to make eye contact, but instead of challenging you to a Pokemon battle, he will instead thrust the image above, finger-painted on a scrap of filthy paper rather than a crappy .jpg at you. He's still got paint on his fingers. Maybe his beseeching puppydog-blue eyes (the most pitiful ones he can MANAGE) will outweigh the unintentionally-horrifying nature of the three portraits.]

[8( WELL?]

[HAVE YOU SEEN THEM?]}

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_{[Still holding the poster up, Wrath just shakes his head wordlessly.]

[He could maybe use a hug. :c]}

_{[OW his heart. Ralph sighs and reaches down with an arm, almost instinctively at this point. He grabs the kid by the back of his shirt and lifts him onto his shoulder.]}

Maybe you can spot 'em easier from up here.

_{[He knows it's a little cruel to give him false hope but...Ralph isn't good at this FEELINGS thing.]}

_{[Wrath goes up like a sack of feathers. He barely weighs anything, especially to someone as big as the wrecker. Hopefully Ralph won't mind tiny paint fingerprints on the back of his head.]

[Once he's situated, Wrath sighs.]}

I've looked everywhere.

Lust says Alphonse and Greed weren't with her so they had to be here, in the city, somewhere.

_{[Ralph winces again, glad that Wrath is behind his head so that he can't see. He starts walking, his feet taking them in the direction of the circus grounds by habit.]}

Maybe they're not in town. This g--place has a lot of 'em. Somethin' like...fifteen? Sixteen towns?

_{[At least the kid's not crying.]

[Maybe he did some earlier but for now, he's dry-eyed.]}

You think so?

That is a lot of towns...

And Alphonse one time went away without telling anybody for awhile. That's why I know he'll be back even though everybody says he's gone.

Yeah....

_{[HIS SOUL FEELS LIKE IT'S DISSOLVING.]}

So chin up! You might not find 'em for...y'know...a while. A while a while. But. Some day, yeah?

[THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU CARE ABOUT PEOPLE, RALPH]

Someday sounds really far away.

I'd rather find them soon.

_{[Another cringe as he waits for someone and their two Furfrou to pass in front of them.]}

H-hey, some day might come sooner than you think!

I hope so.

_{[Wrath sighs again and plants his chin in the middle of Ralph's spiky hair.]}

Can we get something to eat?

My stomach is starting to snarl.

I hear ya loud'n clear, kiddo. Wanna swing by the hotdog place? I could suddenly go for a chili dog.

That sounds good. I like hot dogs. I didn't know they had chilly dogs, too. Are they as good as the hot ones?

They're hotter than hot dogs if you'd believe it.

... What?

How does that work?

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