Forest For Forgiveness [Juniper]

[/style]Rui almost sighed. At least she wasn’t the only person that managed to get lost while looking at prettier sights of nature. It would have been embarassing if she was. The orange-haired girl pushed herself to her feet, glancing down to make sure she didn’t accidentally push the Togetic as she did so. ”Finding a way out sounds good to me.” It was bad enough that she’d spent hours in the forest; it would have just been embarassing if she didn’t even get to her destination.

She stepped around the stump she’d been leaning against and half-jogged over to Professor Juniper, not wanting to make her ‘savior’ wait on her in the slightest. That would be so rude. ”Maybe I’ll actually remember for whenever I next come through this forest, hm?”

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[/style]”That would be great, thank you.” Rui said cheerfully. Her pigtails bobbed as she nodded her head, a sweet smile on her face. ”And don’t worry, getting my hands dirty is no problem...I’ve actually lived in a tree for some time when I was a little girl.” It was true – Eagun and Beluh lived in the largest tree in Agate Village. I havent climbed a tree in years. Rui glanced over her clothes. Skirt, tube top, denim jacket, boots? Alright, not exactly what someone would expect a tree-climber to wear, but she was from Orre, nothing was clean there except Agate, and that was one of the smallest places on that map.

”I’m actually from Orre,” Rui explained, stepping after Juniper through the grass. ”...so trees are a bit of a rare sight there.” The laugh in her voice stated how much of an understatement that was. A small portion of the Northwest and that was it, the rest was strictly a desert. ”I’ll enjoy the beauty of this region however I can.” The redhead smiled at the Togetic before looking on either side of her feet, through the grass in hopes of seeing some Unovan pokemon.

Little did she know, she – as well as the Professor and her pokemon – were actually being followed by none other than an Unovan pokemon. The tiny black and red Zorua crept through the grass, the whorl of his fur sticking just above it. It wanted attention, and it would stalk these three in hopes of getting just that while it thought of how to go about it.

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[/style]”Orre is a decent region.” she said, almost as a knee-jerk reaction. ”So long as you know what to stay away from most of the people you’ll come across are nice...most of it is nothing but a desert though.” Rui stepped over a root, ”Towns are few and far between, and things are pretty low-quality compared to what you see in the here main regions unless you look at a couple of our Colosseums.” She glanced at the ground when she walked, almost as she would have were she talking to the Professor face-to-face. Wes had defeated all five when Cipher had their hold for the first time on the Region. He’d needed to defeat all five.

”But...I guess it seems to be the trend in the main regions...Orre saw its share of ‘evil’ people as well. I remember hearing about Teams Rocket and Plasma, but I’ve been told similar organizations sprung up in every region. Orre, too. We had Cipher.” She shuddered as she pushed the sour taste back down her throat. The thought alone of what they did to pokemon disgusted her, much less seeing it first-hand.

The orange-haired girl began climbing up the tree after the woman leading her, observing the slumbering pokemon. She dropped the tone of her voice to not disturb them. ”They had low standards for morality.” That was an understatement. Rui wouldn’t tell the Professor anything about Cipher if she didn’t want to know. If she did, she would have to ask.

The Zorua trailing them waited its turn before slowly hopping up the hollowed-out trunk by hopping from each out-grown toadstool to the next. It grunted quietly with each hop. It would stalk these three yet!

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