Yeah. Falkner, the gym leader, was a pretty tough trainer.

I guess so. He also had a type advantage, since electric beats flying types. I had help from my other pokemon to.

Yeah. Sparky's an electric type but there's also water types and fire types and a lot of others. And they all have strengths and weaknesses.

Kind of, yeah. Except there's a lot more types.

The pokemon seem to like it, battling that is. But there's other things you can do.

Yeah, like breeding.

I think so. And I think you can get pokemon eggs to.

[a nod]

Pokemon apparently come from eggs.

Yeah, that's true. I guess the egg is part of it's body.

[silence for a bit]

Is there something else?

You mean, Ven? Yeah, we've met.

No. He has no idea either. We've sort of talked about it and neither of us really has an answer.

[pause. fumbling for words]

I...I...I'm not really sure. I mean-- I want to know why we look the same. It's weird. To look at him, and see me. And I wish that we didn't look the same, because...I want to be me.

But he's...still really friendly. It's almost like being around Sora. It's hard, not to like him.

[He sighs, looking away. He knows he's said a lot, but he hasn't really had a chance to talk like this with someone he figures will understand]