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Lennyka reentered the cabin soaking wet and looking largely different. Ignoring the river of water she had dripped behind her, the Rocket agent hastily headed for her room for a change of clothes. Reemerging after having changed, she approached the lit fireplace and held up her hands to it for warmth.

"Bad start to an already bad vacation..." the Rocket grumbled to herself. "What else could go wrong?"

"Raiii," Daffodil sighed. The Raichu wanted to remind her of her missing wig, but feared of making Lennyka more pissy. It was best just to leave her alone for now until she was calm enough to speak to or until she figured it out for herself.

Aya was on her bed in room one when Robin returned. She had changed into her bedclothes and was laying with her towel underneath her and her notebook open in front of her. "What did you get to eat?" she said as she watched him. "Sledding was a good choice" she said smiling "I think this will be fun and I wanna take a walk at some point and see everything"~

Alexa chuckled at what Willa said about Farvardin. "She certainly is." She said with a nod, "That would be one odd pokemon: fire and water type. I really don't know what it would look like... or how well it'd work for battling." She sat there for a moment just thinking about it. She then shook her head as if to clear it.

"Well the one I saw was set out on a big lake. They had floating flags set up outlining the course and the trainers were in these mini boat/sled thing with their pokemon in front of them pulling it. There was quite an upset when a wild pokemon tried to join the race." She explained. It was then she heard noise out in the main part and walked out of the room. She stayed upstairs but listened to what the captain said about the next days activities. "Hm... I definitely want to try the sled racing. But ice fishing sounds fun too." She said walking back into the room, "Think I'll try a bit of ice fishing before going to the race. Maybe we'll run into each other sometime tomorrow Willa." She then went to bed after saying a quick 'good night' to Willa.


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In the morning Alexa woke up bright and early. She grabbed a quick breakfast and then dished out some pokefood for Farvardin. "Ready for some fishing before checking out the race?" She said to her pokemon. She then bundled up and headed outside with her Houndoom heading for the lake where the fishing was going to take place.

**Exit to Ice Fishing**

Chris had already walked toward the first room with the number 1 screwed onto the door. "Alright. Let's see if there are enough showers, beds, sinks, and changing areas in this place. If there isn't, we could sneak into room 2 since i haven't seen anyone get in there yet." She turned the doorknob, walked inside, and turned on the hallway light. "I promise I won't paint your nails or put make-up on your face," she laughed. "However, if you need your hair straightened, come find me."

There were 6 beds in this room. Enough for them to push two and two together to make a bigger bed, but there was no need to. The beds were big enough per person to sleep in. "They... look like Queen sized beds? Perfect!" She flopped face down on the nearest bed and rolled over. "You guys make yourselves comfortable. I am choosing this bed."

It was getting rather late. Chris started to unpack her things and picked out her sleepwear, a towel, and body wash. She needed a shower. With the three of them there, she will have to go in early so she won't back up other people's plans in case there is not enough hot water to go around.

"Chopin and I shared a couple of chicken sandwiches," Robin answered. "They were very good."

The Meowth agreed, hopping up onto their bed and kneading the blankets, purring.

"I'm looking forward to the sledding," he continued, grinning. "Though I'm sure Chopin will be happier left to frolic in the snow by herself."

When three more vacationers entered, talking amongst themselves, the violinist realized he should take that shower soon. "I'll be back," he told his new friend, and disappeared into the closer of the two bathrooms.

Robin scrubbed himself down thoroughly and shampooed his long, blue hair multiple times, then pulled on a too-fluffy bathrobe from the provided pile. After inspecting his clothes -- a grey t-shirt, a red sweatshirt, jeans, socks, unmentionables -- he dumped the lot into the tub and scrubbed them, too. He hung them on the back of the bathroom door to dry overnight.

The man finally emerged from the bathroom to sit on the bed, tending to his hair with a towel and a hairbrush with its handle broken off, which he'd given a good rinse in the sink first.

Chopin rubbed herself all over the damp, fluffy terrycloth of the robe, giving it a good coating of fur. Robin smiled and stroked her, the fur sticking to his wet fingers as well.

Aya laughed. "Very most likely won't enjoy it either but I want to give it a go at least once." She looked back down and returned to writing when he went into the shower. Only looking up again when he returned. She listened lightly to the three newcomers but did very little other than listen.

When Robin returned from the bathroom she pointed at the bedside table "I have what's left of my dinner right there. It was a Hot turkey sandwich but I ate most of the bread and potatoes. I did save a lot of the turkey though so you can give what's left to Chopin. Have you ever tried one before? Theirs is delicious you should taste too if you haven't had it before."

She got up from the bed and went to the bathroom closing the door behind her. She stripped off her bedclothes and hopped into the tub soaking her entire body till she fell asleep. She woke up a half hour later with a sigh to the alarm on her phone. "Oh well" she murmured. She stepped out of the bath and wrapped a towel around her head returning to the room with her hair in the towel and clean bedclothes.

"Hey" she looked at Robin with a stern look. "Did you wash your clothes by hand?" she said crawling up to him and whispering in his ear. "You know I bet if you asked that Kuki, Kora, Kari whatever lady they have a washing machine here. Your clothes would get a LOT cleaner with real detergent." She said it quietly and not with pity but matter of factly. "I mean the clean will last you a lot longer. Just leave one set at a time. Three days you can wash three whole sets of clothes." She crawled back over to her bed and pulled the towel off of her damp red hair and began brushing it out with her fingers.

Aya looked down and spied the meowth streaked with wet fingermarks and giggled. "You wanna use this?" she said reaching into her bag and pulling out a smooth flat brush. As soon as the brush was out of the bag Very began weaving around her trainers hips chattering. "It's Very's as you can tell but it's a show brush. I'm sure Chopin would love to be brushed with it"

Sighing she looked down at her notebook open on the bed. "Tomorrow. After we skate I'll read to you. BUT only if you play a song for me to skate to. Deal?" She looked earnestly at him hoping for a yes.

Robin sampled Aya's leftovers while she was in the bathroom. The turkey was delicious, but he realized, to his surprise, that he was quite full. Chopin finished off the poultry. "You're the best fed of any of us," he teased her.

Robin was relieved when Aya returned -- he'd gotten a bit worried when she was in there for such a long time. He grinned sheepishly when she scolded him about the laundry. "I hadn't even thought to see if they had a machine here. I'll ask tomorrow night, I promise."

Robin accepted the Pokémon brush, and the Meowth's purring increased exponentially as she leaned in, trying to rub her jaw against it even as he tried to groom her back. The man chuckled, and reached over to give Very a few strokes, too. Chopin hopped to the next bed and sat right beside the Vulpix, vying for the brush's attention.

Continuing to brush both Pokémon in turn, the violinist's eyes lit up at Aya's suggestion. Already, he was fantasizing about what music might be right for ice skating. "That would be wonderful. It's a deal."