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008. [Text / Action]

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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

[ACTION]

_{[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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[The name clicks now. Wrath. It's a word, one she wasn't expecting, but...]

Well, Wrath, I'm Ashley, and I'll do whatever I can to help. Your friends' names, what are they again? Uh...Al...phonse, right? And...

[She's. She's leading somewhere with this, really.]

Ash-lee?

Oh. Like ashes. Okay.

_{[He doesn't entirely understand the logic behind human naming schemes, but he knows what ashes are! He's been reduced to ashes on several occasions!]}

Their names are Alphonse, Scar, and Greed.

_{[He repeats these names, fairly patiently. He's gotten used to doing that for everybody who asks.]}

[Sure, alright. Like Ashes, if that helps him remember it.

She nods along, alright. Alphonse, that's what she thought. Scar, that's a weird name, and-

...Oh.] Greed?

[Blink.]

Kind of...spiky hair, sharp teeth? That Greed? Oh, what am I saying, of course that Greed, it's not a common name... My gosh, I talked to him... Not recently, but.

_{[He snaps out of his droopy slouch immediately.]}

--YES! Yes, that's him! That's Greed!

He is mostly composed of spikes and sharp things.

If you talk to him again, will you tell him to come back to his house? His sharks are sad.

[Oh no, she really hopes she didn't get his hopes up. Ashley tries to stay neutral.]

I- of course, I will, I'll send him right along. I- like I said it wasn't recently but-- if I see him or hear from him, I'll...I'll kick his butt until he goes right back to you!

_{[Wrath pauses, frowning slightly and rubbing his chin. That's very heartening to hear, but...]}

... How long are your legs?

_{[... he's asking for a reason he swears]}