[Game] Lord Windos' PokeRole Adventure: Celadon City Vandel

[Dragonstrike]

Spoiler

About a minute passed in silence after you leveled the latest round of question at Kyubi, her expression neutral as she thought about the issue, until she gave you a tired yet touched smile as answered in soft tones:

"....The examinations went very well, Master. Mr. Mime and the doctor said my child is in perfect health, and I should be expecting to lay the Egg on schedule. They also said it should be fine for me to battle and do.....heavy activity without harming my child so long as I pace myself, so I don't have to stay copped up in our room and can travel around with you. You've.....you've done more than enough for me, my love, so the only thing I want is to be by your side again tomorrow. I....hated being without you all day Master, even though I understand why it had to be that way, so please....can I?"

Reiner's Bullshit Detector: Insight (3) + Survival (3) + Empathy (*5) - Implicit Trust (3) = 8D6 Dice; Need 4 Successes to detect she's lying
(1)(6)(4)(2)(1)(2)(1)(2) 1 Success

You (Reiner) completely hold her words to be absolutely true, and have very little reason to suspect she's trying to hide anything from you, especially since she has never lied or omitted any details from you prior to this moment (that you passed the Roll for, anyway). Before you could think to ask anymore questions along the same lines, she asks one herself with a scrunched up and somewhat puzzled expression, as if the topic made her uncomfortable.

"Master.......you never did tell me about this......Taylor. She sounds like...an important person to you, and that she gave you.....grief, so could you tell me about her? I want to help you however I can, and that means sharing your burdens too If you let me my love....."

Welp. This is getting interesting, in the Chinese sense of the phrases.

*Rolls*

Weavile stays put in his Pokeball......for now.

A light sigh from Reiner.  "I don't know if bringing you with me tomorrow is necessarily the best idea.  Mew and I need to head downtown to a Nuclear type infested fallout zone to try and sort out a little issue the city is having with it.  It's going to be incredibly dangerous, and a highly radioactive area isn't the best place for an expecting mother by a long shot.  I'll have a little free time before tomorrow afternoon, but that's about it since exploring that place is going to take a good chunk of time to do."
(I hope Kyubi's ready to deal with the consequences, then...)
Reiner's turn to be silent for a minute after Kyubi asks about Taylor.

"...I don't talk about her for several reasons.  You're literally the only one who's ever heard of her besides me and my most trusted pokemon.  Yes, she's important to me.  Yes, she gave me grief...and still does to this day, in fact...no, I don't really want to talk about it.  She has her reasons to stay hidden and her secrets, and I have my secrets as well."

Not that Reiner knows what Taylor's reasons and secrets are...in fact, he'd never expected to ever see or hear anything from her ever again.

...and then Windos implied she was still out there somewhere.

He doesn't really know what to believe now, though.

He does know he still doesn't want to think about it if he doesn't have to. And he doesn't want Weavile getting...fussy, to put it lightly. The topic's almost as touchy for him as it is for Reiner. (but not necessarily for the same reasons, obviously)

"...*sigh*...look, promise me you won't say ANYTHING about Taylor, Kyubi.  To anyone."