Following that other one... [video]

[runs_on_batteries]

If there are any kids- both big and small- who don't want to be alone right now, I'm making hot chocolate and blanket forts in the dining room.

Also, bring a blanket.

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[knifewithnoname]

She spots that, sees the reaction but isn't quite sure what to do about that and it is clear Eva is trying to hide it... So she will let her.

"I did no be thinking pokemons did be fighting humans. I did be thinking they did be fighting each other."

When humans told them to. Or asked them to, but she's not stupid enough to believe that every pokemon master is as nice as Eva.

[mtsilver_conquor]

There is the briefest of relieved smiles.

And then, just like that, the mantle of 'normal' settles back over Eva. As if she's not hiding a bunch of demons and darkness. As if she's Fine.

She is. She just has to keep putting one foot in front of the other and she'll make it.

"They do and they will. I humanise mine a lot, but at the end of the day, they're animals. Intelligent yet they aren't sapient. And, for all humanities mastered the art of capture, we still live in a world at the mercy of monsters, where one wrong move will see us dead."

[knifewithnoname]

Eva's world just got a whole bunch more interesting. Eva just got a whole bunch more interesting. She nodded, "But with that ball. You can just be catching them, before they can be eating you?"

[mtsilver_conquor]

"Yes, but... It's the only one in the world."

Not exactly true; she knows there's several others out there, but she tries not to think too hard about it. "Normally, 'balls don't work like that, though they do come in various strengths."

[knifewithnoname]

All the more reason to nab it then, the only one like it in the world...

"How do they usually be working?"

[mtsilver_conquor]

"Well, for one, you have to weaken the pokemon," Eva says matter of factly. "Two, it's not as simple as that. The 'balls can fail for any number of reasons, and also because wild pokemon will almost always flee a battle after a certain point, so you can find a rare pokemon and still fail to catch it because it ran."

And that's not even getting into the tactics poachers or criminals used. "I got lucky because I had the masterball."

[knifewithnoname]

"Weaken them? So you do be beating them up first?" She tilted her head, "So you do be needing to be beating them up so they can no be running away, but can still be recovering to be fighting for you?"

Or the balls wouldn't work. Unless its the masterball. "So you could no be beating the pokemon down enough, so it would be eating you? But you did be catching it instead even though you did no be weakening it? It do be sounding that it did be being a good thing that you did be stealing that ball."

[mtsilver_conquor]

"Yeah, pretty much," Eva says with a resigned smile- and then there's a blink as she parses the end.

Excuse her while she boggles just a bit.

"I... I guess?"

[knifewithnoname]

"Yes." She nodded, "If you did no be doing so you would be being dead. Then you could..." She paused, thought for a moment. Tried to think like Eva. It was hard. "You could no be helping people. If you did be being dead."

That should get the message home.