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✓ Memoir 1 // video

[Behold the exhausted but freshly-scrubbed face of one Garrett Hawke, come to introduce himself to the network with a very important question (to him).]

Has anyone heard of a village named Rhododendron? No one at the Medical Center has heard of it, but they suggested I try asking on the network.

It's where I'm from, and I'd like to go back, but I'm not sure where it is from here. So any information at all would be great.

[He hesitates very briefly, then flashes a charming smile.]

Thanks.

[OOC: This guy's hometown is so far off the map no one will have heard of it, and it's also been completely destroyed, but he doesn't know that yet so he's still asking around. Feel free to yank his chain or crush his dreams or just be brutally honest, it's all good! o/]

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[Anders is clearly interested, watching as Hawke talks and trying to see it in his head. It's hard; he's never gone far outside the city gates before, and only once or twice.

One part catches his notice, though:] A storm managed to pick you up?

[You're a pretty big guy, Garrett.]

[Wow, Anders, what are you implying? Gosh!!]

I still can't believe it either. I never knew wind could be so strong.

[not implying anything, just surprised!!]

It must be a miracle you lived.

I agree. I just hope my family was as lucky. And Sergeant's.

[He looks down at the sleeping Houndour in his lap with no small amount of guilt as he says this. He definitely had not intended to take Sergeant away from the grasslands and woods they'd been exploring together, and to a big city, of all places. The little pokemon had been astonished and uncertain around Garrett the first time he'd changed back to human form in front of him; he couldn't imagine the pup's reaction to a whole city full of humans.]

[Anders doesn't know what Hawke's expression means, but he frowns, turning a bit more serious.]

I'm sorry. You're lost, far away from your family, and I'm asking all these questions...

[Whoops, Anders, way to be insensitive.]

It's - [Well. It is what it is. He shrugs.] - Don't worry about it. I won't lie and say I wouldn't be curious, too.

[He hesitates.]

I'll make it up to you.

[Wait, what?]

You don't have to.

Are you hungry?

[He's about to say "no" but then his stomach betrays him by rumbling loudly and rudely.

Ugh, body, work with him, here...!]

...Starving.

[No point in trying to say otherwise, really.]

[he's a little amused by that]

I can get the two of you some food before taking you to the Outpost.

[How embarrassing...]

Thank you. We'd both appreciate it.

I can't let you starve, now could I.

I don't know. Some people might.

Not you, obviously. But. You know.

[he shrugs a bit.]

I'd been told up until recently that no one lived outside Union, so I'll admit I'm still curious. It isn't just because of what happened to you.

And we had no idea there was such an enormous settlement out there. Out here. Wherever 'here' is.

That's why the rangers leave the city. So we can learn what's actually out there.

[And then something occurs to him...]

...Although if one of them had found my village before now, I probably would have heard about it, since I live there.

[Commence sinking feeling in stomach]

[...well, he sure wasn't very good at turning the topic away from Thing That Make Garrett Sad. But maybe he needed to talk about it, to work something out.]

You can ask them if any of them saw the storm, though. It didn't pass over here, so that should give you a place to start, at least.

[O-oh!]

That's...not a bad idea at all. [He flashes a brief but grateful smile] Thanks.

[He smiles back.]

I did say I'd help.

I just don't want you to go out of your way.

[A nice guy like you probably has a family to take care of, right?]

[...yeah let's not talk about family.]

It can't be out of my way when I live nearby. And up until yesterday, I even worked here.

[Good idea.]

Wait, what? What happened?

I finished my training, so I left. I always planned to join the rangers as a field medic instead.

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