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Aila was quickly losing her patience. Fleur was difficult to manage, but at least she followed commands when it came down to the wire. "Heed me, you reprehensible wretch!" she shouted in a fit of utter frustration.

Who should be heeding whom, Revenant wondered with mild distaste. She sank to the ground to avoid the Ice Beam, letting it instead sail along its path to her human. Served her right, the bossy thing.

Aila quickly lifted her arms to protect herself from the ice attack. The cold crept along her forearms, freezing them in that same protective pose. To add insult to injury, the force of the blow caused her to stagger backwards, and she toppled to the ground.

Never had she known such absolute mortification.

Aila turned away, having no desire for this man to see her face with her in such a state. She swallowed her bitterness and spoke, her voice strained by her firmly set jaw, "How am I to know what she is able to do? She cannot speak." She tested the ice. Still too solid, she determined.

"Dreeeavus," Revenant corrected in her swooning voice. She could speak indeed. It was not her fault the silly human could not comprehend.

"I prefer not to trust databases compiled by strangers if I can at all avoid it." She frowned at a sudden realization, murmuring an amendment, "Although I suppose in this instance I could not avoid it..."

Revenant watched as the bubbles drifted past her. They were an annoyance, she decided. She cast a glare at Aki that served as the only warning before she moved to Astonish him.

"Revenant! Cease! Honestly-!" Aila fumbled with cold and largely frozen hands to reach the Misdreavus' pokeball in hopes of recalling the little ghost before she further embarrassed her trainer.

Aila locked her gaze on the ground. She did not wish to accept his advice, but deny it as she may, his words made sense. She had only recently met Revenant, and she knew little of the Misdreavus species apart from a general sense of what moves they were able to execute. And this Misdreavus in particular was apparently a disobedient troublemaker...

That same disobedient, trouble-making Misdreavus turned her head from Aki aloofly. Who was he to behold her form? If he continued to pester her so, she would retaliate. It was a much more significant threat in her imagination than it would prove in reality.

The girl flushed at Mau's offer and doubled her efforts to break free. "I-I can manage on my own," she dissented stubbornly. She wrenched at her wrists, desperate to prove her words. She could discern that it had weakened considerably and hoped she would be able to break free before she appeared anymore a fool.

She took the opportunity as he turned away to act on the suggestion, holding the ice in the heat that rose from the ground. She applied some force, and the frost shattered. Aila unclipped the pokeball from her person to recall Revenant to find the Misdreavus encircled in a freezing pillar of water.

"I could offer to remove you from your unsavory situation," she said bitterly, "but I wonder if you would listen?" As far as Aila was concerned, the battle was over. She had not the will to continue after the embarrassment that ghost had caused her.

Revenant could only accept what was about the happen, but that did not mean she would go down without a fight. She put all her strength into a radial burst of Psywave as the ice began to close around her.

Aila hummed thoughtfully. "Would it be best to call her back? I had considered it, but I am not certain she feels the same."

Revenant glared, thoroughly unamused by her human's musical, almost condescending tone. Aila lifted the pokeball and pulled the Misdreavus back in, not for her safety or comfort but because she could no longer stand the sight of the ghost. She toyed with the idea of continuing the match through Fleur, but she felt no real drive to do so. For the time, her desire for revenge against the Vaporeon had been subdued, and her wits returned to her.

"She is certainly a menace," the girl muttered, mostly to herself but at a volume that could be overheard easily. "I should hope that she will not continue this unsightly behavior for much longer."

She made a sound between a scoff and a chuckle. "And what a testament to her stubbornness should I fail." Her expression steeled at mention of her "reasons." Once more Aila found herself grateful that the results of the investigation Nadja had mentioned in their meeting were not disseminated openly.

"Indeed." She untucked her book from its temporary residence under her arm. Who was this man, anyway, to behave so coolly, going as far as to offer advice and encouragement, when she considered him an obstacle to be overcome?