[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Lord Windos]

Whoops, Ventus was present as well. "Eh... Now, what do you say to this, Ven? Coincidence that you were there when it hatched, so congrats for witnessing the hatching of a new healthy Pokemon. Can you, please, take care of him for short? Just a few minutes that I can get dressed properly (in bathroom) and prepared for us heading down the Lobby for breakfast..."

Seeing such a tender and heartwarming moment shared between Shiva and her newly hatched Pancham caused a warm smile to crest Ventus' face, the sight and loving affections between the cub and the young lass doing wonders erasing an leftover negative sentiment from his 'conversation' with Nathan last night. At her first question posed towards him, he simply said: "Congradulation, Shiva. All the care and attention in raising this egg has paided off splendidly, and I know you'll raise him to become a fierce, mighty Pangoro with a heart of gold! You'll need the assistance of a Dark type to facilitate that evolution, though, requiring you to either obtain one yourself, or work closely with Nathan and Callam. Either way, it will take time for them to reach their full potential, like my own child Raphael did, but I know you are more than capable of bring out this cub's inner strength for all the world to see!"

The empath hardly reacted when he brought up that boy in the conversation, but its still left a hint of distaste at bringing up this fact. Fortunately it was not nearly enough to ruin this joyous occasion for him and Shiva, so he just let it go and continued to speak with the mystical lass as if nary a thing was wrong with them. When she brought up getting dressed for the day, the researcher face suddenly went blank, slowly releasing his own state of undress, and it took quite the effort to surpress the blush and horrified embarrassment. 'Oh dear.... I don't recall excising my tweed sweater from my body, but here I stand, half naked to my blessed friend in the initimacy of our own room. Thank Reshirim she's nonplussed about this, but still, I should had possessed more decorum/sense of mind to prevent this from happening!' Ven thought to himself, bemoaning his laspes of attention in this matter. Sure, he was exhausted from both his hike through the mountain and dealing with Nathan, but that didn't excuse this (at least, not to him)!

After that short period of (to Shiva) thoughtful silence, he slowly nodded his head, and extended his arms to receive Pancham. "I'll get washed up and dressed after you, and in the meantime I'll introduce myself to this cute little child," he said, taking the panda off her hands and politely shoeing her off to the bathroom for her appointed task.

During the time she was in there, he did as described earlier, saying to the little one: "Hello there, Pancham! My name's Ventus Zackarieh, and I'm a good friend of your mother! Hopefully we can get along just as well as we journey together through this region! Would you like an Apple while we wait for her?"