More like Ninetales Vale. It's a cultural quirk of the location more than anything.

The mention of it being Mouse though, gets a reaction. Rei blinks and then smiles as her brain catches up. Mouse. Right! He'd been so small before, but now, goodness. he was a walking couch.

"Oh! He evolved. Right. He evolved really quickly, and he's gotten so big," Rei says, reaching into a box on the table and pulling out a pair of the pokemon pastries. One she tosses to Mouse, the other gets slid across the table to Harry. She won't overfeed him, and she'll leave the second to his trainer.

"So, is this a business talk, or just a visit?"