no_ufo_ending | Room 029 [Video/Action for Mohogany] Backdated to the 5th

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Room 029 [Video/Action for Mohogany] Backdated to the 5th

_{[A road-worn face greets the network. Behind him is a clean Pokemon Center that contrasts harshly with how trashed the poor guy is. Covered in dirt and leaves and bite marks and various other stains from the wonders of nature, Henry looks about 110% done with the world.]

[His usual shyness is nowhere to be seen and his voice is hoarse]}

The glitching has finally stopped. We're finally out of the woods. I talked to a world famous psychic and even she doesn't know what's going on with how weird this place is. Nobody ever dies. If this was the real world somebody would have already been eaten by a bear or something.

I feel like my old gameboy after my mom washed it by mistake. Just...checking in. When I get back to the hotel, I'm sleeping for a week. In a bed.

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_{[A strained grin had spread across Heather's face-- over the top of Henry's arms, she can see people starting to stare. She pats him a little harder.]}

Henry.

Hey.

Buddy.

It's okay.

_{[Is... is he crying?]}

_{[HE SURE IS because this isn't even about not having cereal anymore. Just plain old trauma.]}

I'm glad you are real.

I'm-- yeah, I'm real.

Henry?

People are starting to stare.

And you're sticky.

_{[AND YOU SMELL EVEN WORSE THAN YOU DID WHEN WE FIRST FOUND YOU.]}

_{[The receiver of wisdom heaves a sigh and pulls away, standing there in a slump with his arms hanging uselessly by his sides.]}

Okay.

_{[Once he lets go, she can't help but recoil a little bit. She's no spring flower after spending the night on a train and then flying in the summer heat (even if the winds mostly eliminated it once you were in the air), but Henry YOU ARE REALLY RIPE RIGHT NOW 8(]}

Okay.

Okay, so we got a hotel room in the inn, it's nice and peaceful and 'rustic mountain abode' and all that and Henry why haven't you showered.

_{[BABY SERIOUSLY. 8(]}

_{[Henry looks down at himself in all his stanky glory and draws in a sniff.]}

Reasons.

_{[He knows he needs one bad. He knows he'll feel better once he gets one so he gravitates towards the Pokemon Center door with Boo right behind him.]}

Did you guys. Did you have an okay trip?

_{[A SENTENCE! A relatively normal sentence!]}

What sort of-- _{[Y'know, never mind. She doesn't really wanna know Henry's reasons. The important thing is getting him cleaned up. She quickly tails him towards the door.]}

Yeah, it was fine.

I mean, I'll sleep like a LOG tonight, but we just wanted to get here as quick as possible.

_{[Henry squints like a hermit once they're outside regardless of how bright it is. He doesn't even wait to be led, he's looking around for the most hotel-like building he can see.]}

Thanks.

_{[Another clipped reply. Could this be the return of...CLAM HENRY?]}

Don't mention it.

_{[The inn is a few streets away-- but Mahogany is no bustling metropolis like Saffron was. It's not long before they get there.]}

_{[HOTEL GET.]

[Once they're inside and Henry has walls on either side of him, he slowly un-tenses. Walls! Real walls! Probably with perfectly normal people and pokemon on the other side of them! He runs his hand along one until they get to the room.]}

You know. When all the weird stuff happened and everybody lost a few days, I remember something from it. I actually remember something and I know it happened.

_{[MULTIPLE SENTENCES. Okay, so he's not broken after all.]}

I rode a telekinetic flying pink unicorn. It was pretty great.

_{[Good. RELAXING IS GOOD. She starts to lead him up the stairs. It's been a good long while since they've been in one of the more rustic hotels rather than the big shiny one in Saffron.]

[She's actually gotten them to their room on the second floor and is starting to unlock the door when he busts out with THAT little bit.]}

... A telekinetic pink flying unicorn.

Yeah. I don't remember where we were going, but I did. Did you ever learn to ride Carousel?

_{[She pauses, before opening the door and stepping inside.]}

I've... been practicing a little. When I can.

The Sheriff was helping me a bit, up at that farm.

_{[Dropping her bag on one of the bed, she turns and jerks her thumb at the bathroom door.]}

All right. Get thee to the tub.

_{[The photographer wanders on in after her and stands in the middle of the room almost cluelessly. WHAT AM. HOTEL ROOM? BLANKETS? CIVILIZATION? It felt so surreal but so nice at the same time. And right over there was his stuff just like it was supposed to be!]}

Alright, alright...I'll go wash the wildman off.

_{[And so he did. After which he would actually flop face-down on one of the beds and refuse to move for several hours. The floor just wasn't going to cut it today.]}

Good man. See you in a few.

_{[And when he gets out, Heather's doing unpacking-- not a lot, but given that they're likely to be here for at least a few weeks, might as well.]

[So he's free to lie there and take comfort in the sounds of his adoptive sister puttering around-- she won't bother him. He deserves some lie-there-not-moving time.]

[Eventually, though, when the sun starts sinking low in the sky, she does head over to give him a poke.]}

Hey.

Dinner.

Wanna go out somewhere or just eat in here?

_{[Henry doesn't respond at first, but his body does boot up long enough for him to speak.]}

I just wanna stay here. I like walls.

_{[Under normal circumstances, Heather would drag him out of the room by the seat of his pants if she had to, but he quite frankly deserves some indoor-time after everything he just went through. So she nods.]}

Okay. I'll run out and pick something up real quick.

_{[She's not sure what kinds of food opportunities are around in this town so she might as well scope out the territory. All the same, she pauses by the door, looking back over at him.]}

... You sure you'll be okay here by yourself for a bit?

I'll be okay.

_{[He sqirms around on the bed until he's angled so that he can reach down into his bag and pull out a pokeball. He releases Boo and she eagerly clambers up and sits on the back of his head.]}

Boo's got it covered.

Well... all right, if you say so.

_{[She starts towards the door again... then pauses. After a moment's thought, she pulls a Pokeball out of her pocket and pops it open by the edge of the bed.]

[Apparently psychically knowing what she's supposed to do, Cheryl trundles over to Henry's side and curls up contentedly. COMFORT EEVEE IS HERE TO CUDDLE.]

[And then Heather heads out!]}

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Room 029 [Video/Action for Mohogany] Backdated to the 5th

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