The Heights of Londo [IC 4: Turnabout Trainers]

[tgva8889]

Alyssa shivers a bit. "I, um, I guess that makes sense. D'you wanna train out here?" She looks over her shoulder, then back towards Sass. "I, um, dunno if we should scare her...I think that might go bad." She shuffles a bit in the mud, trying to not let herself get surprised again.

[Hazuki]

"Thank you. You, too." Palla smiles at Leah. Misru nods, and then Leah is walking back to the others with Saura casting a suspicious glance backwards.

"Hey, Leah," Sass says as the girl returns to the sight of a slightly-battered Yrael and a victorious Sass. "What were you do-ARGH!" she yells and points behind Leah.

[tgva8889]

Alyssa looks over as Leah comes into view, but before she can say anything she jumps a little at Sass's yell, looking at her rather than where she's pointing.

[Comissar]

Leah smiles, raising a hand in greeting to the others as she draws closer. At Sass' yelled out warning, she stumbles closer toward them, looking behind her with her chest clenching in abrupt panic. After a few moments of not seeing anything, she looks back to the young girl with a mix of hurt and worry, "Sass! Why?!"

Spoiler: OoC

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I'm assuming here that there is, in fact, nothing behind Leah. If there is, let me know, and I'll edit appropriately.

[Hazuki]

Sass' grin falters as she sees the look on Leah's face when she turns around. She flickers through a few expressions before just looking away, toeing the ground with the tip of her shoe. "Just practicin' with feeding my Misdreavus is all."

[Comissar]

"That's..." She feels her heart sink at Sass' expression, "Sass, people don't like being scared, e-even if it is to..." She trails off, blinking as she catches up to the extent of what Sass just said, "Y-you managed to catch one..?" She reaches up to tuck her hair away from her face, forcing what she hoped was an encouraging smile, "W-well done, Sass. I, uh, I knew you could."

[Hazuki]

Sass shrugs her shoulders. "Yeah. Well. I need to do some training, so..."

[tgva8889]

Alyssa walks over to Leah and offers a hug.

Whether Leah takes her up on it or not, Alyssa turns back to Sass. "You planning to train here, or, um, head back onto more solid ground?"

[Comissar]

Leah accepts Alyssa's hug, but keeps it brief so as not to leave Sass waiting. "I guess, uh, I guess you'll want to find some poison types to, uh, to practice against..?"

[Hazuki]

Sass nods. It's quite clear to both girls that, just like in Bastille when she was chastised for poking Luna, she's on something of what people in Galar would call "a strop".

[tgva8889]

Alyssa looks at Leah and then at Sass. "Well, um, we could try training against our Poison-types?" She looks at Leah, not sure if she's on the right track.

[Hazuki]

"What Poison types?" Sass asks. "There's only Saura here..."

[Comissar]

Leah rubs behind her neck, "Well, uh, Saura could, uh, could help, but she's not got a lot of, uh, a lot of battle experience. And, uh, neither do I to be honest." She glances to Alyssa, "But, umm, Alyssa caught a, uh, a Salandit back in Thundercrag..? Maybe she'd be able to, uh, to help you..?"

[tgva8889]

Alyssa nods at Leah. "Yeah. Though I don't know if mine knows any Poison attacks, so I dunno how helpful that would be..." She looks up, thoughtful. "I suppose I should probably check that before we do any fighting. Training against a Fire-type won't really help that much against Poison-types." Putting a hand into her bag, she pulls out the Pokeball and rolls it between her hands. "Y'know, I haven't actually let Salandit out since I caught it."

[Hazuki]

Sass leans down to give Yrael a few strokes on the head, then recalls the Pokemon into his Pokeball and frowns. "You didn't let it out on the whole trip?"

[tgva8889]

Alyssa shakes her head. "A lot of stuff happened and I didn't want to have to watch it and also Maggie and also our other friend and also trying not to trip while walking." She laughs a bit and looks down at it. "I guess I should probably say sorry."

[Comissar]

Leah rubs at her arm awkwardly, recalling her own shortcomings with Sable. "It'll, uh, it'll be better to do so sooner rather than, uh, rather than later." She gives a shrug and a smile, "If, uh, if nothing else, it'll be nice for it to see new scenery."

[Hazuki]

Maggie, who is also present, reaches up to rummage through Alyssa's pack.

[tgva8889]

Alyssa looks down at Maggie. "What're you looking for?" Holding Salandit's ball in her hand, she kneels down to let Maggie get a better look.

[Comissar]

Leah smiles at Alyssa, "I, uh, I think she wants you to, uh, to let your Salandit out."

[Hazuki]

When Alyssa leans down, Maggie glances at her hand, blushes and looks away.

[tgva8889]

Alyssa looks at Leah, then back at Maggie, and blushes a little herself. "Oh, um, yeah I guess I can do that." Twisting the ball, she releases Salandit into the mud.

Realizing her mistake, she then puts a hand to her mouth. "Oh, um, sorry! You okay there?" Still kneeling a bit on her feet, she looks at the Salandit with concern.

[Hazuki]

The Salandit lands in the mud with a little bit of a splash, and, not having solid footing under its legs, ends up splatting on its stomach with its legs splayed out and its lower jaw covered in mud. It just lays there for a few seconds, blinking with a thoroughly "This is my life now" expression.

[tgva8889]

Alyssa starts to go to pick it up, but seeing it laying there she hesitates. Then she moves a bit, trying to figure out what angle to take, before deciding to just offer a hand to it. "Can I help you up?"

[Hazuki]

The Salandit's eyes sloooowly slide to peer at Alyssa, then she moves to stand up and slips again, this time splattering more mud over her black hide. She exhales.

[tgva8889]

Alyssa, feeling her Salandit's pain, reaches down to pick it up out of the mud, slowly lifting and stopping if it seems like Salandit doesn't want that. "Sorry about the mud, I know it's not like where you're from." She takes a moment to breathe in deep, then, if Salandit lets her, she moves to hold her comfortably in her arms, mud and all.

[Hazuki]

The Salandit is something of a dead weight in Alyssa's arms as she's first lifted, but she allows it to happen all the same and peers up at her trainer once she's cradled.

Sass, meanwhile, has picked up a stick and is tapping it against a tree.

[Comissar]

Leah has a wry smile on her face as the slapstick scene between Alyssa and her Salandit unfolds. Catching Sass' gradually growing impatience, she coughs discretely to get Alyssa's attention, gesturing with a brief jerk of her head over to the younger girl.

[tgva8889]

Alyssa looks over at Leah, catching her motion and turns to Sass. "Hey Sass, d'you wanna go back now?"

[Hazuki]

"No, I wanna train my Pokemon," Sass replies, as she hits the tree with her stick again. "That's what you got that one out for." She points her stick towards the Salandit, who slowly rolls her head in Sass' direction. "Oh, right, hang on..." She grabs her Pokedex and points it at the Salandit, which both girls will know is the sign for it filling up with information about the poisonous lizard.