Irremovable
_Is he in the curvature of the bottle? His face..._ _Glen. To my shame, this is an obsession, now. A permanency of attention that threatens my natural habits with replacement by itself. Is he in the bottom of the pint? We'll have to...
Desperation
"I'll give you six hundred dollars to spend the night in my room and let me do whatever I want to you." He stopped in his tracks, astonished by the words in his ears and the hand on his side. My eye glinted in a mockery of playfulness as I looked up at...
Brand
"Are we agreed, then? You provide me with as much information about the Pokénomics HQ as you can, and I'll help you catch enough pokémon to allow you to defend yourself. We're headed up into the mountains as soon as we hit Arget." The five of...
Blaze
Surprisingly, they went through the night without being attacked. Glen checked everything he knew to see if it had been stolen, but it all appeared to be present. Including Zach, of course, who had somehow again wound up sleeping curled around Syn....
Sparks
"Ambrosia. Let's test your seed gun." Glen held his hand over the bulbasaur's tremendous bulb and waited. The grass-type set itself, gazed forward without seeing, and released a series of ten seeds into the hand. The black-haired boy whistled quietly...
Smolder
They walked at a moderate, unhurried pace. Zach had let Jerome stay out of the pokeball; it felt weird to have his pokemon contained while all three of Glen's were out. The abra was strapped to Glen's back so he could sleep while they walked. The extra...
Scald
_Was it worth it?_ Glen moaned. It was mid-afternoon. He could tell that much from how badly his eyes hurt. It was especially troublesome in tandem with his pulsing headache. _You're a mess. Hold still._ "I could have sworn I was the...
Aesthetic
And slurring the lyrics together into a voiceless cry, he spins melodies through the ether, piercing air to cut my brainwaves and shatter what I thought of him; this, this dulcet, this aesthetic, is what wraps me before I reach sleep at night and he...
Coals
As Glen stepped back with his body shuddering to breathe evenly, Ceres approached the loosely-packed soil by the banks of the river. Her pendulum hung heavy from her hand and seemed crushed by the weight of gravity as its thread coiled on the ground....
Fire
"So," Rachel said over her glass, "there's something that's been bothering me about Allanon." The two humans were sitting in a gaudy, though not ostentatious, sit-down restaurant in downtown Arget. They had dropped off their pokémon at the...
Flare
Glen awoke. In a flash, he had his pocket knife pressed hard against the throat of the... woman, from the look of the breasts hanging in front of his preternaturally alert eyes... who likewise had a blade on his throat. She gasped, but grinned,...
Ignition
Zacharias's face shone as he looked at the pokéball in his hand. He had shown them. He had shown them all. Can't be a trainer without a freely-given pokémon? Bull crap. Ha! He had lured the rattata in, waited, clubbed it, and caught it, all without...