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Cecily wasn't sure what to think about Mei's comments regarding her brother - but after a moment she was giggling too, hiding her smile behind her hand. "He was bossy when he was with me, too," she admitted finally. "An' if I didn't like what he wanted I was mean," she said, then huffed. "I don't think it means what he thought it meant."

At the revelation about pokéballs, her eyes widened and she bounced in place. "Really? Really? I'm safe from them? Then --- then maybe I don't have to stay out here! I could explore some!"

Staring up at the tree, the celebi tried to judge how far she would need to go, and grabbed onto a branch, fluttering her wings to give herself a boost. She wasn't particularly great at flying with this new, heavier body, but she could certainly still climb!

"The best branches are up here," she called once she was a certain way up the tree. "You want long, skinny ones right? That you can make take shapes?"

"Good," Cecily said, bobbing her head as she started grabbing the greener branches to try and break them off. "If he gets better then that will be good for everybody." She certainly didn't want him to get hurt - or hurt anybody else - by his pushy tendencies!

"Really? Ohhh, that's great, that's really great, I can stop hiding then!" And if she could stop hiding, she could experience the things that caught her attention - like finding out where her pretty cloud blankie had come from, and if she could get something even prettier!

"You mean like.... branch crowns?"

"Mmhmm," Cecily acknowledged with a hum, flipping upside down on the branch to grab at a few below the one she was sitting on. "Hardly anybody ever comes out here, so it's safe from being caught... but it gets kind of lonely and it's getting cold, too."

She twisted the branches off, tugging and coaxing and making a liberal amount of silly faces as she got each one, dropping them down to Mei one at a time. "Uh-huh! Branch crowns! I'll show you. You're better with something vine-y though. Like grape vines! They're woody but they grow all curly and pretty!"

"I think you can," Cecily said, smiling at Mei - before she remembered she was upside down and frowned instead, thinking that might work better. "They look like they'd work better anyway!"

Tipping herself back upright, she scrambled back down the tree and dropped next to Mei. "Will that be enough? And it's okay; I have a blanket! I can show you if you want."

"It's a really good blanket, though," Cecily assured her new... friend? Acquaintance? --- assured Mei, smiling as she started inspecting the branches herself.

"Should we try twisting them together? IT might take both of us, some of these are really strong..."

"If it gets that cold, I'll move somewhere warmer," Cecily said, not quite aware of just how cold it would get once winter settled in fully. "Don't worry!"

And she sat down next to Mei, grabbing two branches of her own. "Right!" And she shoved them together, and tried twisting - to no avail. "Um. I don't think I'm doing this right at all..."

"What's snow?" Cecily asked, green eyes wide and curious. "Is it like rain? Because rain's pretty wet, I remember rain." As a pokémon, Cecily had stayed in warmer climates, and as such had never actually seen snow. "What does it do?"

Twisting the branches was hard, and not working, and while for a moment it looked at though Mei's idea to use the roots might work it became clear very quickly that no, it wan't going to. The shiny Celebi pokéhuman squeaked and scrambled closer to the Mienfoo, trying to check her over.

"It didn't hit you, did it? Are you okay?!?"