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Conclusion

Thank you.

For those inside the system the voices of the Great-Seasons ring out around them once the red mass has vanished and the blue plinth it was smothering is freed once more. They don't have all that much time to reflect on that before they find themselves waking up once more in their bodies around the tree trunks.

Or at least, around the tube that is the Great-Season they entered through. All illusions have vanished now, all that is left are pipes and metal.

The Great-Seasons allow them passage out from the centre, no sentries or pipes attack them this time. Everything seems to have been put to rights, the walls in the Autumn sector have stopped moving, there is no strange weather effects in the Summer Sector, no engineering problems in Winter and all the camaloid creatures in Spring are calm. Any Helpmates they come across are doing their jobs and no longer malfunctioning.

After a small amount of time, enough to check that all is well, their SCA's light up. All Passengers are to return to the Voidtrecker Express.

Considering the vast distances involved it is probably best that they use the evacuation function to return to the Luggage carriage.

Once all Voidtreckers have returned the train returns to the Void once more.

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Yesssssss.

Kaseri doesn't give a hoot about papers, suffice to say. All she wants is attention, and the attention comes from Nita, frankly. And-

"MEEEEEEEH."

A 'cotton ball' is rolling down the carriage, apparently wishing for the same thing.

One hand is deployed to scritch - but then! A challenger approaches...?

No, just another pokemon. Nita snickers, then sighs.

/I can only give each of you one hand, okay?/

She was lucky this was a chair, not a couch, or she'd be a lot more crowded!

One hand only!?

Kaseri gives a grumbling nicker at Amar.

Amar pretends not to hear.

But, for now...FOR NOW! Things are peaceful. One hand. They can cope with one hand....

And Nita does her best with her mere two hands!

... She could probably cheat with a wizardry or two, in hindsight, but that wasn't really what either Kaseri or Amar were really after, anyway.

/If you want scritches in other places, you're going to have to move, you know! If I fall out of this chair, that means none for either of you./

Well, if they wanted to keep things fair.

Both of them freeze.

They trade looks.

Kaseri's horn glows, and somehow, Amar's wool has become a larger cushion.

NOT FALLING OUTTA THAT CHAIR NOPE.

Ah, the smell of teamwork in the afternoon.

Nita tries to suppress her giggles.

/Thanks, you two./

The scritches continue in safety and comfort!

Teamwork makes the dreamwork.

What does not make the dreamwork, is...well. Probably the opposite of that, if one can classify what these two are doing to Katsuya like that.

"Oiiiiii, Kaseri..! Amaaaaar..!"

His voice trails down the carriage, and given the brief ear perk before the two pretended not to have heard it, he's looking for them.

While Nita does not stop the scritches, she does still look down the aisle toward where (presumably) Katsuya is coming up.

"Hey, Jonouchi!" she calls. "What's up?"

Aside from these two having a good time?, she presumes.

"Oh! Nita..! Jus' look'n f'r th' pokemon, have you see-"

...

He does not need an answer, especially not as he comes close enough to see the two freezing.

"....oi...."

Nita just lets the scene be answer enough - because it is, really.

/If either of you two bolt, I can't guarantee the next person you find will want to pet you. ... Just a warning./

That's to the poke-escape artists, not Jonouchi, though he can probably still hear her!

The two are now frozen on the spot. Katsuya, who wasn't actually looking at Nita directly, pauses.

"...Hey you say somethin'?"

The pokemon are still frozen on the spot. They want....the pets though....

Nita glances aside, to look at Jonouchi properly.

"Just talking to these guys here. Think I'm their target for the day... or the afternoon, anyway. You needed them somewhere?"

The pets continue, just more slowly whilst she's distracted.

"Ehh, not really, jus' makin' sure they weren' bein' pests..."

A pause, and he grins- perhaps a bit conspiratorially. "...So...were they bein' pests?"

Both pokemon are now staring with the biggest, puppiest eyes they can manage in Nita's direction. No!! The answer is no!!!

"They didn't knock anything over, so..."

Nita lets silence build up conspiratorially, before finishing,

"I'd say they were just fine. I'm not keeping them from anything, though, am I? Or you, for that matter?"

"Nope! Like I said, they were wanderin', I was lookin'. Not really a whole lot f'r me t' do on th' train most days 'f I'm honest. Or like, nothin' I HAVE t' be doin', mostly..."

"Guess they were happy enough to put that free time to use," Nita points out.

With more scritches, just because she can.

"It's not as if they shouldn't get pets or anything..."

"Hah! Yep, pr'tty much! Far as they're concerned, they c'n get attention fr'm anyone s' long as they find 'm!"

But, that aside. "Chances tend t' be more likely tha' they're gettin' under someone's feet is th' real probl'm though. They're great when someone's been feelin' crappy though!"

"Sitting targets are safer than moving ones~" she says, as much for the mons' benefit as for Jonouchi's.

"... And they are helping me," she admits, more quietly. Briefly looking askance.

"So I'm glad for that, too."

"Hah! Y'd think, but tha' doesn' always mean they're keen on it!"

...

Ah- "Mnh...they are huh? ...Well, if y' want, they're all yours f'r th' next while. ...Hate t' ruin their fun 'n all..."

/You hear that?/

Nita glances back down at them, bemused by where she's ended up.

/They're not indefinite or anything, but you're getting more pets!/

So long as they share, anyway...

They certainly do hear it!! And are relaxing accordingly as Katsuya snorts. Well.

"Heh! I'll leave 'm too it then! Unless y' need more company, 'f course. Not like I'm doin' much either."

"Well, it is that time, for post-mission breaks... that, and,"

She gestures behind her, to the paperwork.

"I was going over my vision notes again, trying to match up what little we got with the mission itself. I... I'd appreciate your help with that, too."

Lots and lots of post-mission breaking...he nods, getting the idea easy.

"Mnh? ...Vision notes? ...I mean I c'n try, but all I figured w's tha' we were gettin' a shot 'f how th' system was feelin'. Seemed a bit like when I got stuck like tha' anyway."

That's a story and a half right there in the making.

Nita nods, a wry expression returning to her face (and yes, pets are still happening! ... Unless the Kaseri and Amar are distracted).

"Right before everything went wrong. Couldn't even tell what went wrong."

Which was embarrassingly familiar, for what that was worth; the 'oh SHIT' moment.

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/happily shows off new icon!!!

hooo!

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