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She offered another nod to both, wondering to herself if Will stayed here all the time, or if he got to go back to the main base every once in a while. If he was stuck here all the time with only a few other people, that must've been incredibly boring. Lonely, too.

"Yes, let's," she agreed. "Thank you Will. Aila, do you know your way around inside?" Hopefully she did. If not, well, that would just make it all the more interesting, hmm?

"Very well. We shall keep an eye out for you, should you be relieved of duty during our time here," Aila said with a nod as they passed the grunt. She turned to Claire as she proceeded, slowing her pace until she was slightly behind the older woman. "Would you like to take the lead? In all honesty, you know very near the same information about this place that I do, so I fear I would not be a worthy guide." All the better to explore as a team, then.

A faint smile, accompanied by a fainter chuckle, denoted Aila's amusement. "It is of no offense to me, if that is what worries you. It is a fair enough exchange, though, and I certainly cannot disagree to the proposal." As she spoke, she studied their surroundings. The last she had visited, she was a bit too preoccupied with relishing the feeling of being on her own two feet to analyze the building's structure well. She recognized the hall that ended with the storage closet, but the rest of it seemed almost completely alien.

The tight corridors were a good design, Aila thought to herself. Surveillance cameras, placed at just the right vantage points, would have a complete view of all activity. All in all it seemed a lot like a mini-headquarters, though, as if someone had gutted out all of the important features of the base and shrunk them to a fraction of their original size. The cafeteria in particular was a fine example of this, its size reduced to accommodate the smaller number of visitors. Not unlike Claire, though, Aila began to wonder what exactly the purpose of the outpost was. Was it as simple as a storage facility for receiving supply shipments to deliver to the main branch, or a silent sentry meant to keep watch over the city? It seemed a superficial function, especially for a building affiliated with Team Rocket.

The training area seemed it would only accommodate humans or small pokemon, Aila noticed. She imagined one would be better of doing their exercise somewhere outside rather than within the outpost. The expanse of beach between Camphoreon and Sagestone, perhaps, would be an ideal locale, or one could likely get a great deal of training accomplished on the slops of the nearby Sky Peak Mountains. Retrospectively Aila wondered why she had never done such things herself, resorting to activities similar to parkour and buildering for her own training.

"Certainly," she said with a nod. A brief glance to ascertain their exact location, and then Aila headed for the nearest staircase, descending to the lowest floor in hopes of locating the rooms that housed things such as security and a general command center. It did seem that such places of importance were kept to the lower floors at the headquarters, after all...

"Hopefully, the heart," she replied. "Thus far we have seen little of the equipment necessary to operate this outpost, however small it is. It is my bet that such things are kept to the lower floors, not unlike in headquarters."

Aila glanced into one of the rooms as they passed. It appeared to be an office for general use. There were a few computers inside, actually, and the trainee wondered if maybe all of the outposts residents didn't make use of them in turns.

Odette had heard the footsteps approaching from behind them before the same sound reached her trainer's ears. Turning around, the bird was on alert until she noticed that the human was the same one from before. Oh, that was alright then. "Pidgeot."

The sound of footsteps didn't reach Claire's ears until Odette piped up, and the grunt turned to see who was behind them. "Oh, hello again Will. Done already?" Then again, he could just be monitoring this area now, as a sort of switch or bump-out. She wasn't sure how things worked.

Eying the large bird, Claire swiftly unclipped her pokeball from her belt and expanded it in one motion. "Sorry girl, but the hallway's getting a little crowded." And with that, Odette disappeared in a flash of red light.

With considerably more space for the rest of them now, the violet-eyed woman turned to face Will more directly. "Is there? Oh well, I prefer taking the stairs when possible, anyway." More exercise! "And I am. Are you, Aila?" Indeed, she was. She had thus far learned a great deal about the outpost, and had already begun trying to memorize the more important features they'd passed. Just in case.