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"Ah, speak of the Darkrai," Osmond breathed as he beheld the aforementioned grandson of Mortimer return in one peace. There was a dwindling suspicion from the boy's disappearance that irked the officer the wrong way, but he disregarded it, for the younger male's face bellied an exuberance he couldn't take as vile. "Careful where you go, bud," he said to Arwen with a nod. "Man here seemed a bit worried at your disappearance. Don't cause your old grandpop here to much trouble now, y'hear?"

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A cold fear came over Koorie as she heard the murmurs of the lost pokemon having been stolen. There was only one reason so many pokemon would be taken like that:

Team Rocket.

The mere thought of the crime organization brought ice to her veins, and she looked down at the little vulpix that stood beside her. Blue eye locked with hers and Koorie took a deep breath in, making the difficult choice to leave her precious companion outside of the pokeball. "Stay where I can see you, Miu. No exceptions."

@ Search Parties



Juno had Desdemona's lantern securely packed in her bag, just the ring at the top peeking out from beneath a flap. She tapped several people on the shoulder, trying to get their attention. "Excuse me, you're looking for the missing Pokémon, correct?" the tall woman asked, ever so politely. "It might be nothing, but there was a little pile of rocks I spotted, a ways back on the trail. There was something odd about it. It seemed to be... glowing? I thought it might be worth looking into." She shrugged. "Entirely up to you."

A glowing pile of rocks?Well, that was something that would certainly get Mordred's attention if he had wandered off on his own, but somehow Dora was beggining to think that her Murkrow, full of mischief as he was, had for once not gone off willingly... and she wasn't about to go too far from the main group, Doduo to ride or no - not without a battle pokémon, just in case.

Still, she couldn't just ignore the suggestion.

"Glowing, huh? What sort of glow are you talking about?"

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"Will do, sir" Arwen replied politely. Then, turning back to Mortimer, Sorry if I worried you."

He took the old man's arm and gently led him away, appearing preoccupied with the action to dissuade further conversation. With a sigh, he pointed out Parth who was standing near a little boy he thought he'd seen earlier.

Parthenius whined, genuinely sad to hear the news. She nuzzled his face when he hugged her and licked his ear a few times reassuringly. She was sure she'd seen her trainer with other Pokémon a few days ago. It would be okay if she stayed with the boy for now, right?
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Arwen was tired from all the searching they did and, with a heavy exhale, dropped onto a rock.

"Whew, I think I need a break," he said, fanning himself.

"Did the others have any luck?" he wondered aloud, looking around as he did so. He saw a few people gathering about and he watched curiously, rummaging in his bag for a snack as he did so. He summoned Parth to him (who'd been with Cael the entire search) and offered her a few berries.

@ Search Parties




"Well, the glow seemed quite bright. Perhaps something was hidden under it. Or perhaps..." Juno put a finger to her lips thoughtfully, as if she'd just thought of it. "Perhaps it was hiding some sort of secret entrance? I could lead you back to it."

((FYI: You haven't "seen" Juno much today because I haven't been able to get on much. IC, she's been milling around with everyone else. X3))

After searching high and low, neither Shaun nor anyone else had found anything. When people gathered back at the campsite to try and figure out what to do next, Shaun joined them and slid off Salvo's back to let the Tropius rest.

He looked around, wondering what could have happened. After this long with no sign, it seemed extremely unlikely that the pokemon just wandered off for any reason. Throughout the search he'd kept remembering tales of various criminal groups stealing pokemon. That hadn't seemed likely at first, but more and more he was starting to wonder: was someone in this group a thief? Maybe more than one person?

He looked around the group, trying to remember if anyone had done anything suspicious. He'd only really met a few people, and he ticked through then to try and figure out if anything seemed odd to him. The only thing that stuck out at all was when Osmond pulled out his police badge to show him. Sure, they'd been talking about the fact that he was an off-duty cop, but he expected that one usually didn't show a badge for anything beyond official business. Maybe he was trying to throw suspicion off? But how could he try and check if the cop story was a cover without getting anyone upset?

After a moment he went over to Osmond, with Salvo trailing along behind. "I've been thinking, all these pokemon gone without a trace seems rather suspicious," he said. "I'm worried they might have been stolen. You're a police officer, off-duty or not. What's the best way to go about checking for thieves?" He watched the man and was prepared to consider his words carefully, trying to see if anything he said or did suggested that he might be less than honest.