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Sera stuck her tongue out playfully. "Nope!"

Rosie smiled, stepping back into a twirl so that she was walking forward again.
It didn't take her long to successfully lead them back to the strip mall, that seemed to be a little more busy with people taking advantage of the open shops. probably to take a walk after their Christmas morning.

Thankfully there was a place they found indoors, and after Lunch had been consumed was open to allowing the trio and the little floating Legendary.
To linger a few hours later, refilling tea and coffees as were so ordered.

It was nice being able to sit and talk, a few times Luke had been given strange looks, and Rosie couldn't help but giggle at the way they must look "The way you're dressed, Grand Ile noble dressed to the nines and a couple of tourists having lunch."
Those poor confused passer by's, though it wasn't in ill intent, Rosie could tell at least that much. It was just fun.

by the time a new round of teas had arrives, probably their third refill, Northern had started to drift off, and eventually was encouraged into Rosie's arms, the trainer cradling the pokemon as she finally went to sleep.
"There is a lot of new things going on, I'm not surprised she's warn herself out." Rosie noted, making sure the ribbons along her back weren't flopping around.

"Yeah it is. She's seemed pretty shocked most of the time, seeing such a big difference after barely getting used to Kodo. I forget sometimes how different it is here too. We got asked to leave a store this morning becasue we had pokemon... I think it upset her." she arched her eyebrows looking a little embarrassed. "Kodo used to be that way too though, before training started getting bigger."

"I'm sure she will," Rosie replied, glancing down at the Legendary then back up at Luke "Nicolette got her something cute to wear too tonight, she seemed pretty curious about it. Well, she's curious about the whole thing."

"Mm, yeah, I bet that seemed like a switch," he replied, frowning faintly. "People just aren't used to pokemon here the way they are in Kodo… Pokemon are tools used by the military, pets kept inside for company, or dangerous, wild animals to be aware of when you're traveling between cities." He breathed a sigh, resting his chin in his palm. "That's just another reason to introduce training here, though. People wouldn't be so cautious of pokemon if they had some idea of how to deal with them properly." He shook his head dismissively, "There's not much helping that for now, though. Hopefully someday."

Sera had started staring off into space again, her thoughts wandering before the gift was pushed in her direction, effectively pulling her back to reality. "Hm?" What did Rosie get them gifts for? Actually never mind, this was Rosie she was thinking about. Why wouldn't Rosie get them gifts? "You didn't have to do that, y'know," she said with a small frown as her hand shifted to reach for the present. With a curious glance from Luke's two to her one, she nodded her head at Luke, "You open one first." Man, and she didn't have anything for either of them... Not here, anyway. Why would she bring a wrapped present to another country when she could give gifts to them back at home in Kodo?

"Its nothing big, just something to share for the holiday." She reassured, holding her free hand up with a bright expression.

she lowered her hand back onto her lap, watching Luke unwrap the first one.
Inside he would find a case, that when opened held a wooden box, just big enough to be held comfortably in both hands, while an arrangement of different sized flack sturdy prongs all in order from smallest to largest, back up to smallest. and a hole right in the center.
It was a strange looking object, that's for sure.

"I actually picked that up a while ago. I knew it was hard for you to sit at the Piano for long periods of time, so this was going to be a hand held alternative. Its called a Kalimba"

Just the sight of him playing around with it, testing the sounds as closely as he had whenever he played with the piano, learning bit by bit by just studying the sounds.
She had loved watching him self teaching.
She was smiling before he even looked up at her, "You're welcome~"
Of course there was always that initial worry that someone might not like a gift you gave them, so she was relived to hear that he liked it.

"Okay, sooo both of you together on this next one."

Both of them would open the gifts to find a book. Though each one had a different book inside of it.
"I though you two might like these ones in particular. But, also that your pokemon might like." she glanced between them. "I've read them to my pokemon before and we all really liked them both."