[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

"Well, yes, it is a tradition. I come here every year from Corsage Port. BUT, it's not Ginger Town's choice to make! The Pokemon come Running whether you like it or not, down from Mt. Molten, at approximately the same time every year. Supposedly something agitates them, or they sense some cycle in the nature of the planet."

"If Ginger Town didn't prepare for the Running, funneling Pokemon through one particular street, putting up safety measures, fortifying the Route Gates, having staff on hand... the whole town would be chaos."

That fascination in the words 'cycle in the nature of the planet' could not be overheard. It was not openly, but Shiva quickly picked that up. ...and couldn't help but to feel awe for this. The whole time since she heard about The Running, she thought it was nothing more than a sporty event, a festivity, somewhat on the same level as Shuckleball but in a way more dangerous outplay, that it's people of the town who once started to get some Pokemon running though the streets and passed this on to the following generations as traditions until today. But not once did she thought that it could actually be, to put it bluntly, the Pokemon who are holding this event in the first place and on their own will, while the town just addapted to it and built an event out of it...

No more dislike against the Running. Rather...peaceful acceptance.

It took a little until Shiva replied at all, she stared somewhere into the distance not really hearing the crowd preparing for the event. But when she finally did and managed to face Xiani again, her tone was respectful over the forces of nature, calmer. "Does that mean...that it's actually the Pokemon who strated this event on their own? Whoahw....Like it's in their genes to run through the streets, fueled by mother nature. ...You know where they run to after they passed Ginger Town? Oh, and if you come here every year, what kinds of rare and hard-to-get Pokemon did you already saw running?" (Tandorian Unicorns? More of the Nidoran-lines?)

"Oh... And, me and the group came from the direction of Corsage as well, coincidently... If I am allowed to ask this, did you too suffer those sleep issues and bad dreams that lurked the city for a while? I surely did while I was there... It even made us camp outside of city to get some restful sleep for a few days. Then, one day, the situation rapidly got better for a reason I don't know."

Actually, Shiva had no real idea why she was even telling this all to a woman she met there at the flower field. But for some reason, she felt comfortable to do so.