69th moon [...seriously, this is like the fifth time or something]

[paladinlost]

[This would technically be a video, if there was enough light to actually see something. Cecil sounds resigned to his fate, if anything.]

I need a list of every single cave in Johto and Kanto that is not the Ice Cave, as I have to figure out where I am. The local Pokémon look strong, but- EEEEYAARGH!

[...Guess who's on the lowest level of Cerulean Cave and just met Mewtwo?]

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[dragoon_pride]

If I knew my way out of here, I surely would have left by now.

[paladinlost]

Follow me, then!

[And off Cecil goes! ...With no particular plan other than 'away'.]

[dragoon_pride]

Very well...

[Kain knows better than to question Cecil's sense of urgency. At least he isn't noticing anything mentally amiss, always a good sign. He hurries to keep up.]

[paladinlost]

[Cecil's sense of urgency won't stop until they've moved two chambers away. Seriously, that thing is freaky.]

...I knew I should have tied myself to the bed every night this last week. I knew it.

[dragoon_pride]

[Kain gives him an uncertain look.]

That hardly sounds pleasant. Did you not intend to be here either?

[paladinlost]

In this cave? No. In this world? Neither, but at least I have plans for it. Plans that involved being in town right now.

[dragoon_pride]

What sort of plans?

[paladinlost]

Visiting people, buying new attacks for the younger members of my team, taking the time to enjoy the scenery...

[And then, as if suddenly realizing-]

Though I must say that having the chance to see you is certainly better.

[dragoon_pride]

Better than all of that? Truly?

[Kain sounds almost vaguely amused in his way.]

[paladinlost]

I can go shopping or training once this ends. Seeing you is another story.

[dragoon_pride]

Well... Then I'll be here for as long as I can be...

[paladinlost]

Thank you, even if I doubt it'll be very long.

[dragoon_pride]

You seem to be so certain of that. But... I don't understand how I came to be here in the first place, so perhaps there's something to it.

[paladinlost]

...That's how it always is. People come, not knowing why, and then they leave.

[dragoon_pride]

I see... so we make the most of it in the meantime.

[paladinlost]

Exactly. Everyone here lives as fully as they can, while it lasts.

[dragoon_pride]

One can only hope it lasts a long amount of time...

[paladinlost]

Sometimes it's a few weeks. Sometimes it's over two years.

[dragoon_pride]

Then there's no way of knowing how long this will last. I see.

[paladinlost]

Nothing is certain, in this world. But that's fine, in a way.

[dragoon_pride]

I suppose nothing is certain in any world, truly.

[paladinlost]

Death and taxes are, but very little else.

[dragoon_pride]

How dreadful that those things follow us everywhere.

[paladinlost]

...Not here, however. That's what worries me the most.

[dragoon_pride]

What? Are you saying that these don't ever happen here?