Snippet #1634239

Old Sally’s Rest Stop
Luce was the first of Raine’s pokémon to get up. Sunlight streaked in through the window of the room, which faced eastward caught the first morning rays. The mareep yawned and stretched, shaking his wool to adjust the level of static in it. However, he couldn’t help a yelp of surprise when he saw that his trainer was already up. She turned towards from her position on the floor, giving a slight smile. “G’morning, Luce. Up already?”

The mareep gave her a stunned expression, and Raine’s smile faded into a small scowl. “What? Surprised to see me awake in the morning?” The mareep nodded, staring with wide brown eyes – Luce knew that his trainer never woke up early. Yesterday had been an exception on his fault.

“Let’s say yesterday’s events messed up my biorhythm,” Raine sighed before turning back to the task at hand. She was writing in her journal, recording the events of her journey in surprisingly neat handwriting and illustrations. Small doodles of yesterday’s happenings decorated the paper. “Oh, and the fact that you three took over my bed might have to do with it,” she added with a small accusing look. “The floor isn’t as comfortable, you know.”

Luce looked around him to see that Silas, the spinarak, and he had indeed, taken up the bed. He looked at where his trainer was lying on her stomach to see her sleeping bag spread beneath her and a pillow by her arms.

“I don’t blame you,” Raine laughed before the mareep could start overreacting. “The spinarak there was the one who started it all anyway. You two just followed suit.”

At this point, Silas opened his eyes at the noise, slowly getting to his feet. He seemed dazed from its sleep, looking about himself groggily. The spinarak continued to sleep like the dead. Understandable, Raine supposed, since spinarak were pretty much nocturnal pokémon. Raine set down her pencil and closed the journal before proceeding to fold up her sleeping bag.

“Okay. I skipped breakfast, lunch, and dinner yesterday. I kind of want to avoid that from now on, so let’s go see if this place serves breakfast,” she said as she stuffed the tightly rolled sleeping bag into the main compartment of her messenger bag. Silas jumped off the bed, fully awake at the term ‘breakfast’, while Raine picked up the might-as-well-be-unconscious spinarak in her arms.

She didn’t lock the door to her room on the way out, since she planned to check out that day if possible. Maybe she could make it to the next city after training with her pokémon for a bit... or maybe she should get some more money first... though exactly how, she wasn’t sure.

“Breakfast first,” she muttered under her breath. “At least it’s free…”