A Crowded Week; open action!

[cutiepanther]

[ This week is already looking to be a busy one for Maki. She has a house guest that she really didn't want, a new Pokemon that she's still trying to bond with, and a date with a girl that's not really a date. She didn't plan any of it, but yet here she is, with no way out, forced to accept what life has thrown at her.

Early in the week she'll be playing spending a day with Honoka, trying to show her around Union as best she can. Likely going to just about every fancy restaurant she can think of, to the music store, or maybe to one of the stages in the city and giving an impromptu performance.

Later she might try to let off some steam, going about town as a Purrloin, trying to just get away from how hectic things have suddenly gotten. She went from zero friends to all these people she's just getting to know, and it's a little overwhelming for a girl like her. Anyone can bump into her in the city, though she may just try to pretend to be a normal Purrloin, at least at first.

At the Pokemon Habitat, someone might find Maki trying to teach her first Pokemon, a Fletchling named Yaya, how to sing. She's not a very patient teacher, but she'll be doing her best to teach her Pokemon the chromatic scale, as well as a simple song or two.

And then in her weekend, Nico is coming over to her house for a little bonding, trying to still repair the relationship between them, whether that is friends, rivals or something else entirely. Really, Maki is sure to want a vacation after this week. ]

Rules like "don't fall into this giant pit full of spikes" are there for a reason

[comparative_insanity]

[Be glad the medium of video does not come with the extra bonus of smell, because the scent of burnt feathers is definitely nothing for the fainthearted. Nonetheless, the fact that Fai is a bit singed is pretty visible, and he looks rather rueful about life in general.]

Today, children, we have learned that overcoming your fear and bravely doing something you kind of want to do but that you're also terrified of doing is not always a good thing.

That is to say, sometimes you're scared for a very good reason.

[A rather vexed looking Floette is flying around him in circles, several vines protruding from her flower and appearing to try to soothe the singed patches of his skin with wet towels.]

Or, to put it another way, if you're severely claustrophobic and also a Flying type? Don't venture into Magnet Cave just because you're really curious, okay? This brought to you by the lecture I'm sure I'm going to receive on the subject pretty soon.