Vanessa decided to wait in the waiting room, reading the diagnosis about her Pokémon.


    She feels content, just sitting there, reading, knowing everything is fine and she doesn’t need to worry.


    For about a minute until she read through the easy-to-understand bits and now has to decipher the rest.


    Sabrina wanted to talk about something relatively sensitive with Nurse Joy.


    Both entered a private room for consultation and similar talk better done in privacy.


    Even though she wants to retort if it’s fine to go away, she profits from it, so she keeps quiet about it.


    It’s not her anyway. Maybe she should bring it up in the end.


    ”You don’t have to worry. I will be busy in the near future, but right now Chansey can deal with anything not too unusual.”


    ”We just walked in with a Zapdos, and Vanessa was plainly congratulated. If that didn’t cause an uproar, then I fear the whole of Celadon City won’t be able to deal with anything ‘unusual.’.”


    ”Eheh.”


    Nurse Joy scratched her cheek, embarrassed at the retort.


    ”It’s true that having a Legendary Pokémon get captured by you is not an everyday occurrence…”


    ”Lacking arguments or words?”


    ”Words. What I want to say is that even if we want, there just isn’t much we can do.


    Even if we fight against Legendary Pokémon and win somehow, they are just too important for the world to risk antagonizing them.”


    ”So, they are basically such bigshots that anything else but ignoring their antics would just invite more trouble?”


    ”The analogy might be misleading, since needs and social structure of Pokémon are completely different from humans, but yes.”


    ”Huh. We should stop it here. I might get a headache from all of that.


    What I wanted to ask is something that is related to all of my new Pokémon.


    I will need your consultation not only on how to take care of young Pokémon, something specific to their species, but also about a traumatizing experience.”


    Sabrina released all her Pokémon beforehand and gave them the choice of either listening or staying outside.


    They talked to themselves and came to the conclusion of everyone listening.


    Bulbasaur also takes part in the conversation, watching over Exeggcute, Oddish, and Comfey.


    Birds of a feather tend to flock together.


    Even though Comfey isn’t a Grass type. More of an honorable Grass-type Pokémon.


    ”I see. Is it something you would rather hand over to a Hypno or something to talk about and give advice on how to treat your Pokémon?”


    Nurse Joy doesn’t seem to omit anything just because the Pokémon are present.


    Sabrina had a slight, sad smile at the option of an Hypno, knowing it wouldn’t be good.


    She isn’t convinced of the belief that ‘every experience shapes a person, which is why we should never let people conveniently forget memories!’ or what the argument was again.


    While it was never something she actively thought about, a bit of self-reflection makes that clear.


    Every choice shapes the character, and forgetting something or not is also a choice.


    And sometimes, forgetting is just easier for one.


    Who will have anything from purposely retaining bad memories that will weigh on someone down?


    Shaking her current thoughts out, Sabrina focuses her attention on the current situation again.


    “It’s about their Guardian they had. They won’t see him again.


    But we met for a short time before he decided to put their care into my hands.”If you stumble upon this narrative on Amazon, it''s taken without the author''s consent. Report it.


    ”It might be rude to ask, but who was their Guardian?


    To have such a young Comfey means he probably had an egg.”


    ”That’s where it will get a bit weird. It was a Drampa in the forest.”


    Sabrina looked down at the table while talking but quickly looked upward to see the standing Nurse Joy.


    She created sudden noises as she quickly stood up and pushed her chair away.


    Surprised, Sabrina looks up to see Nurse Joy’s astonished and serious face.


    ‘Yep, aha. Serious Business. There might be a Zapdos in my clinic right now, but hearing about a Drampa is much more urgent.’ goes sarcastically through Sabrina’s head.


    ”Let me put this together. There was a wild Drampa in the forest out there; you met it, and then it gave you five other probably at this point wild Pokémon in your care.


    ”I don’t know if itwas wild, but it was fought by two burly men, one with Lapras and the other with Machoke, until it released a Dragon Breath to the sky.


    The damage should still be clearly visible, unless local Pokémon did something against it.”


    ”Can we safely assume that the Dragon Breath was the same Pillar of Violet Fire that was spotted around noon?”


    ”Yep. Considering Drampa used berries to heal itself before getting damaged again to maximize the special attack enhancement from Berserk, it’s very likely that it should have been visible from the city.”


    ”It wasn’t. Or rather, without a good view, it wasn’t.


    The distance was too large to make it visible unless they were on an outpost.


    How did you reach that far?”


    ”Abra teleported me.”


    ”I see.”


    Way at about the distance to large? It reached the clouds!


    And how she said it, as if distance could reliably obscure the vision, but being on a higher point of vantage helps?


    Is it some other world Pokémon shenanigans, or do physics work differently here?


    … It was supposed to be a tiny vent session on my mind, but were there really some kind of restrictions for stuff like that?


    Oh yeah, maybe there is. Would suck to get hit by a Mega-evolved Dynamax Gyarados Hyper Beam if that works.


    Maybe moves really have a range restriction, or something similar?


    ”Well, we should continue our consultation. Am I right that you don’t want them to forget?“


    ”Yes.”


    ”That’s good. But I need to say, I can’t give any solid advice. Every Pokémon is different in how they can be helped with that.


    I can only say that you should lend them an ear and comfort them when needed, give them space when needed, and be honest.


    Also, it will never go away. Don’t expect them to be ‘cured’ from it one day.


    It might sound superfluous, but it’s always good to have a person say it out loud to you.”


    “Hmm. I guess that’s the best I can ask for.”


    ”Yes. Sadly, the journey will begin shortly, so I won’t be able to be of much help when it does.


    But feel free to come before that if you ever need help. Or when your Pokémon got injured.”


    ”Will do. And I need to ask something else.


    As you can see, those three are not fully grown up. At least I guess so.”


    ”No, you are right. Oddish is fine; you can treat her as fully grown already.


    Comfey is closer to being a baby’s but well educated. Just don’t stress her too much, but that’s something you should never do.


    Her stress limit right now is a bit lower than normal for Pokémon, so watch out for that.


    What stands out is the Exeggcute. It’s on the edge of full maturity, but it seems to not have gotten much in the way of nutrients since your age, leading to it being underdeveloped.


    And it’s alone. Is there any other Exeggcute it shares a mental bond with?”


    “I don’t know what a mental bond is, and no.”


    ”Ah, up it''s just. You know how Exeggcute and his evolution, Exeggutor, can talk with each head mentally?


    That''s what is asked for in the case of Exeggcute. Alternatively, it can mean a connection between psychic Pokémon and Trainer, made through means from the Psychic Pokémon.


    There are potentially many meanings, but those two are the most important.


    I would recommend looking such things up for the various Pokémon types; it can give insight into your Pokémon too.


    And, when he really is alone and was beforehand, then he probably really has none.”


    ”Could it be related to him being underdeveloped?”


    ”Yes, but not like you think.


    They flock together as a means to defend themselves and search efficiently for sustenance.


    Did you never wonder why there are five Pokémon but they use Moves with the effectivity of one Pokémon and then only one Move?


    It’s not that they have a fifth of the regular strength of Pokémon, but they are weaker alone.


    A mental bond is especially important for them since they can synchro then.


    For Psychic Moves, they all coordinate their attack while supplying the needed energy, for example, Grass Moves, to one Pokémon.


    The golden number in that case is five; everything above has a barely noticeable increase.”