"Oh, you haven't seen? Oh, I suppose Eva has been very quiet, since..." Since Kaito left, which... well. Nerdanel is used to loss. Eva is a lot younger, and probably took it harder.

"You've met Eva, yes? Pokemon are her... companions, I suppose you would say. Like animals, but very intelligent, and with unusual powers. Princess is the one you are likely to see but... " But the fairy pokemon has almost certainly been glued to its depressed trainer.

"Young Jounichi has a pokemon too, I'm told."

"Oh!" She tips her head at weather. "How interesting. He's... a part of you? It does not hurt to have a part of you separate like that?"