[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Dragonstrike]

Nathan sits back down, exhausted.  He understood the reasoning...but killing...it's just...not something he can come to terms with...he hadn't noticed Aspis tearing into Weezing until it was too late to stop her...he didn't want a repeat of that...

Yet everything Ven had just said...big picture...if that Rattata had encountered someone less capable, what would have happened?  It looked like it had seen its fair share of fights already...but would someone even want a pokemon like that?  One that was obviously feral and aggressive?

Maybe if they had similar intentions...

It wasn't the first pokemon they'd encountered with such intentions, though...that Scyther had been particularly vicious, and had put Ven at great risk directly....

He was conflicted.

The reasoning was sound.  But his respect for all life...it was crying out in response.  

What to do?  

Shiva had stopped him before...did he want that to go to waste by letting Ven do what they didn't?  Or did he try and stop Ven from doing it?

"Ven, I...I don't know what to do...I feel like there's no right answer here..."  There's tears in his eyes again, and he's wracked with feelings of sadness and indecision.

He glances over at Kirlia, trying to find an answer to something he can solve..."I..do know...I don't want to go back to Corsage right now if I can help it...I don't have enough healing items on hand to deal with those wounds immediately, though...he took...two Crunches from that Rattata...it really messed his arm up...I wasn't able to fully stop the bleeding..."  His concern for Kirlia's well being is all too apparent.  Kirlia is like family to him.  Really close family.  If anything happened to him...