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Nyx's blush grew a shade deeper, she was embarrassed both at the attention her romantic- no, her friend- no, colleague life? was getting. She was still not completely able to admit to any feelings, no matter how much Nadja had pointed out the obvious.

Tazieff stared at the Pikachu with a mouth full of icing, some of it leaking out of the sides of her maw. "Waar?" She looked quizzically at the other pokemon, some of the icing squirting out of her mouth when she made sounds. Why was it so upset? This was her icing, at least now it was.

"What? Damn it, Tazieff..." Nyx sighed, "Why won't you behave?" The pokemon wasn't stupid, at least, she didn't think it was, but it refused to behave properly, or listen all of the time. It seemed like the creature was very much intent on doing whatever popped into its brain at any given second, no matter what. "Don't worry about it, I'll pay for it." The white haired woman's face was one of apathy and annoyance, like she'd given up trying to swat a fly and was just letting it buzz around because being annoyed was less effort than hunting the thing down. She threw an extra couple of tubes of icing into her cart, maybe to use as motivation for later training.

"No, I've got it. I'm actually pretty sure it was all her idea anyway." Nyx said unhumorously; Taking Tazieff out was proving a trying experience. The Charmeleon just stared at her trainer with the half empty tube of icing still in her mouth.

"Yes. Quite a few of mine are wild, actually. But she's somewhat of a handful. I hope to get her under control by the time she evolves..." Having a large flying fire lizard doing whatever it wanted on a whim was a scary thought. Nyx shuddered and started walking slowly towards the check out lines, slowly enough that someone would walk along and talk if they so wished.

Nyx thought back to most of her encounters with the species, which were mostly in lab environments where they were less than thrilled to be having experiments done on them. Especially that one... the Charizard that escaped and rampaged through the labs. The others she'd seen were either badly controlled, or were made more aggressive due to Team Rocket's dark balls. "It seems so..."

The woman eyed Tazieff, now wary of its evolving. What if she were unable to control it? She shook her head, clearing away such thoughts; She was not the same weak agent with no pokemon and no ability as she had been in the past. She could handle things if they got out of control.

"I'm sure she will be fine! I just caught her." That was the excuse, not her own inability to train a pokemon. Beaker was proof that she had some ability. The woman emptied the contents of her basket onto the conveyor belt of the checkout line and waited.

"Not necessarily, I just think that the species is more prone to bad temper- oh. Interesting. Yes." The woman pulled out a little black notebook and a red pencil and scratching something on the page before putting it back into her purse. She looked back at the girl after her sidetrack. "Me? No... no..." She wasn't good with pokemon--Though they did tend to sort of flock into her party, and she hadn't done terribly at the volcano. "Possibly."

Tazieff stared at the two humans blankly, obviously entertaining herself with some thought more interesting than whatever they were doing or talking about.

"Oh. I'm Emma--Thank you." She almost forgot after her epiphany that it was polite to thank someone for a complement. The conveyor belt jerked forward and the cashier started to scan the various items. "Oh, tack two more tubes of icing onto that. Pokemon." Nyx stated.

"Oh, nothing. Ignore me. Work related inquiry for later." Of course she wasn't going to tell the girl what, it involved crime and questionable science!

Nyx looked at what the total of her purchases would be after every item was scanned and pulled out her wallet, paying for it all in cash. She was about to bid the girl farewell before she noticed the egg. The green, stripy, very familiar egg. That was one of hers-or, more accurately, one of the experiments she'd worked on. Someone had managed to steal one of the eggs, but they had yet to figure out who or where it had gone. Yet, there it was... Obviously the girl hadn't stolen it from the lab.

"Do you live around here, Rosie?" She smiled, glancing from the egg back to the girl.

Nyx nodded, taking a mental note for later. Her comrades would be interested to know that their property was in the hands of this young girl; She would have taken care of it herself, putting the egg back into their clutches, but they were out in public, and Nyx was still not terribly confident in her ability to defeat an opponent.

"Ah, no. I'm visiting a friend." That was a suitable answer, it didn't leave the possibility of the girl wanting to visit her house, which would cause an awkward situation, her not having a house; It also didn't leave room for questioning the plausibility of baking in a hotel room. "Are you a trainer? One of the ones doing that gym challenge, or what have you?"

"No, I'm from Kanto." That was true. "Saffron City." That was a lie. She was from Vermilion City, but familiar enough with the larger city that she would be able to lie as if she were from there.

Nyx smiled and did her best to keep her wicked plans out of it. So the girl was in school, but not actually doing the challenge yet, good. That meant it probably wouldn't be difficult to get the egg from her. "No, I haven't. I'm not much of a trainer." The grocer put the woman's purchases into plastic bags.

Normally, people who kept pokemon as companions didn't keep more than a couple, but the girl didn't need to know that. "Yes, I'm enjoying it very much." Nyx smiled and picked her bags off of the carousel, "Well, it was nice to meet you, Rosie. I've got to be getting back, though, I've a boat to catch early in the morning."

Tazieff squeezed more icing out of the almost empty tube, then proceeded to chew on the plastic end, hoping maybe that the tube itself was made out of icing. No luck, though. The charmeleon walked close behind its owner, placated by the sugar... for now.