(10) looks like freedom but it feels like death

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[Action, Park]

[It is surprisingly easy to avoid your problems by avoiding people. After the whole zombie event, well... seeing his closest human friend get eaten can really do a number on a person. Sleeping outside is something N is good at already, anyway, and there's no doubt in his mind that his supposed "wife" knows where he is. Hell, Ryo might even know. Still, the park is where he feels most comfortable, and with his Pokémon friends with him, it's easy not to feel lonely. It's hard not being able to hear them, but they seem to understand him well enough, which is a decent substitute.

Luckily, there's an abundance of benches, shady trees, and grass to lie down on, so he hasn't been wanting for sleeping locations. Of course he returns "home" to check in, clean himself up, and meet drone requirements, but anyone who spends much time at the park will notice that a certain curly-haired man seems to be spending an awful lot of time there.]

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[Yaaaaawn. She...well, she goes to make the motion to rub her hands together, but seeing as she's missing her left arm, all she can really do is wrap that one arm around herself and radiate heat.]

Your friends being those...animal things?

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Yes. They're not things, they're Pokémon.

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And I don't know what "po-kay-mohn" are. [Which she says with appropriate air quotes.]

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Similar enough to animals, I suppose. They fill that niche rather easily. They're simply not things.

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I didn't say things. I said animal things. As in kind of like animals but not completely.

They seem a little too sapient to be completely animal, frankly.

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[Well, that at least calms him down a little bit.]

They're very intelligent. Back home they would talk with me, but I can't hear their voices here.

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Talk as in human words? Or talk as in a more general type of understood language?

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They don't use human words. People in general can't understand them. It's sad, I think; they can understand everything we're saying, but neither of us can hear them. They can make noises, but a Pokémon's voice... it's something different entirely.

[Purrloin has curled up in N's lap and fallen mostly asleep over the course of this, and N pets his head absently.]

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[Mokou tilts her head to the side, a little confused.]

You telepathically communicate with them?