Week 7.

[azumods]

WEEK 7 After a week of nothing but snow, it's likely that the city is a welcome sight. The city proper is likewise blanketed in snow, but it's far shallower here, easily walked through; it's soft and powdery and unlikely to cause you to slip, the kind of snow small children and Pokémon might enjoy playing in if they're the sort to enjoy that kind of thing. And if they were capable of enjoying much, in the case of the children. That said, the people here are still in the mildly improved state you witnessed in Eterna; it isn't much, but it is improvement, and the world around you continues to change in other, smaller ways as well, so it isn't all for naught. The wild Pokémon here, however, seem to be experiencing something a little...different from what you've been seeing so far - specifically, the Shellos here seem a little hostile toward one another. Snowpoint City is separate from and parallel to the giant mountain you passed last week, and it's populated by both the blue and pink varieties; the different sorts...don't seem to like each other much. It isn't all-out warfare or anything, but there are definitely skirmishes and mounting tensions happening in slug culture here. Mediate if you choose, or just enjoy your time in the city. You've earned it, after last week. CURRENT LOCATION: SNOWPOINT CITY POKEMON AVAILABLE: WITHIN CITIES SUNDAY | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY | FRIDAY [OOC: Welcome to week seven of Azume; feel free to make as many top levels as you'd like and tag out to other characters! This post is for all of your interactions this week... at least until the weekend. Don't forget that a write-up is due this weekend!]

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[bloodspent]

[He has to think about it for a moment, because his kneejerk response is to say he doesn't really understand; for a brief second it's what he almost goes with, and then he thinks about Ustanak.

It's been a really long time since he's thought about Ustanak, and since he spent six months wanting to forget the guy it's obvious why; there was something good about that fight with him, though, with no guns or chains or weapons, just pure strength.

...And yeah okay maybe that was a little bloodlusty...]

I think I get what you're talking about.

[Mm.]

It really has been a while, hasn't it.

[swiftasacoursingkawa]

...Yeah.

[Sena looks solemn, crossing his legs to sit on the floor across from Jake and looking down at his feet.]

It's not just that, though. If it was just how long it's been...I don't think I'd be bothered this much.

[bloodspent]

Something else, then...?

[It's not pointed, just...prompting.]

[swiftasacoursingkawa]

Um...It's what Jupiter said to me at the very end. Did you hear that...?

[Sena knows you were kind of out of it, but apparently heard enough to know that Jupiter's got him in his sights.]

It just made me realize something...

[bloodspent]

I did, yeah.

[swiftasacoursingkawa]

Ah.

[He keeps looking at his feet, rocking a little as he speaks.]

It's just that...the way she spoke, she made everything sound like a certainty. Not like it might happen, but that it would happen, you know? And, uhm...it made me think that the other football players I've gone up against, they say the same thing.

[Tap tap. His fingers drum against his winter boots, a steady rhythm to his thoughts.]

They never say that they "might" win. They say that they "will" win. And I think something like that...I guess it's something I've been lacking for a long time...

[bloodspent]

Makes you want to prove them wrong, yeah?

[swiftasacoursingkawa]

Mmhm. I want to...be able to say that kind of thing with confidence, too. There's a lie I'm trying to make real...If I can do this, I think that's one more step to living up to it.

[He laughs a little sheepishly, a small red tint coming to his cheeks.]

I mean, I guess that's what I'm trying to say? It's a little confusing...