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[ backdated to before the elves, just when the snow is really heavily piling up! SOMEBODY has just been dumped out beyond the village after her de-hiatus kidnapping, and gave up wading through the packed snow after like five minutes. so she's trying a different tactic.

wherever you are, there's suddenly a girl on an armored penguin calling out for you to WATCH OUT!! as she sleds down the slope, swerving to avoid hitting you....... and then crashing into a tree. awkward. the only way that could be even more awkward is if you'd been unlucky and stepped out from behind a tree, out-of-sight, so that you didn't even get a warning before the girl and her penguin crash straight into you instead. whooops. ]

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[shamelessness]

[If Shiemi was alone she probably would have been crushed via penguin, but thanks to her skarmory the girl gets lifted into the air before the crash. Skarmy decides to follow the speeding Pokémon as they continue to sled down hill. It's an odd little sight, here. Two girls with two Pokémon whirling down a hill to possible disaster.
At least snow cushions impacts. Though Shiemi is still worried, so she calls to the other girl as they pick up speed to catch up.]
A-are you okay on there?!

[It doesn't look like that thing has breaks.]

[acuity]

[ oh another trainer!! she opens her mouth to reply, but stops short when empoleon crashes headlong into a pine tree and flings her straight into a snowdrift. maybe... she's just going to stay stunned there for a second or two 8|b ]

[shamelessness]

[Skarmy drops her trainer down by the snowbank. Shiemi stumbles a bit before fussing over poor Platina.]

E-eh!? Are you okay!?

[acuity]

F... fine. Just surprised!

[ wiping snow from her face, oh god that was so ungraceful what even /)_(\ ]

[shamelessness]

A-ah, I'm glad. You were going really fast, and I was worried!

[acuity]

I... don't usually travel this way. There was just quite a lot of snow all of a sudden...

[shamelessness]

Mm! It's been snowing really hard recently.

I-is, um... that your Pokémon? [Wondering if it's a Pokémon or just a... monster-thing.]

[acuity]

She is. This is empoleon... are you a trainer?

[ penguinbro clambers out of the snow and waves awkwardly, yo o/ ]

[shamelessness]

I am! N-not from your world, though! My Pokémon was born here.

[acuity]

I see. That would be this skarmory?

[ empoleon chirps a hello, yo :V ]

[shamelessness]

Mmhmm! I've had Skarmy since last February.

[Skarmory tilts her head, and lets out a bit of a chirp herself. She's only ever seen the Pokémon that are here with their trainers, so it's surprising to see other ones. What's up, birdbro?]

[acuity]

I see! She seems to be well-trained. At least, she has excellent reflexes.

[ to dodge that penguinsledding 8|b empoleon waves a flipper awkwardly like SORRY ABOUT THAT, MAN :V ]

[shamelessness]

A-ah, thank you! We've been training really hard to be good! Your Pokémon must be really good too, to be that fast!

[Skarmy holds her head high, proud of her own achievements. They even beat their rival not too long ago!]

[acuity]

... I'm not sure if that's more skill or my own bad decision-making, to be honest.

[shamelessness]

Either way, it looked cool until you crashed.

[acuity]

Well, 'cool' is the least I could ask for. But I was attempting for 'efficient', actually.

[shamelessness]

I see... are you headed back into the village?

[acuity]

I am. It's not too far away, is it.

[shamelessness]

Not at all! It's should be less than a five minute walk.

[acuity]

Is that so? Let's go, then!

[ SETTING OFF... in maybe the wrong direction, who knows. ]

[shamelessness]

W-wait! [She calls out, with a concerned look on her face. Hurriedly she tries to catch up with Platina.]

It's more to the right!

[acuity]

I-is it? I knew that.

... Well, no I didn't, but.

[ TURNS TO THE RIGHT DIRECTION o/ ]

[shamelessness]

This is much better, let's go!

[As they walk forward Skarmy is close behind. She doesn't feel like flying too much in cold weather. The altitude just makes everything colder.]

[acuity]

[ watching skarmy with a :> kind of look, she likes birds. ]

It must be nice to have a pokemon that could fly.

[shamelessness]

It is! But it can be scary, and the wind hurts if you go fast.