Snippet #2284531

Sumara slowed to a stop and gently sat down on the dirt path. Her hands, still wrapped in her cloak shook with a force that she couldn't even comprehend. In fact, her entire body shook. Tears rolled down her face and she looked up at Martin with watery eyes. "Alright..? I've never been 'alright' from day one..." She whispered softly, curling into herself. She knew something like this would happen, eventually. Her brother's work was sought after and fought after like a prized gem. She even understood that because she was his sister, and obviously important to her, that she would be just as bickered over.

She took a shuddering breath that racked her whole body. "Ya know..." She started quietly, a bitter little smile crawling onto her face. "I should be okay with such attacks on my family... I mean with my parent's large piggy bank and brother's intellect, they're wanted by everyone... Those guys... They've got nothing on the crap I've gone through. Nothing." Her smile turned into a frown, though tears still fell from her eyelashes. "They can take mother and father. Brother won't care... They never gave us any attention, left us to ourselves, abandoned us without even making us leave that stupid mansion. He won't care one bit..." She muttered, looking back at where they had come from. She stood, dried her eyes on her cloak and turned back towards their destination. "Let's just go..." She began to walk again, the worried and bewildered Pokemon trailing after.

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Jace barely heard him over the roar of the wind and peered up at him. He couldn't crane his neck enough to get his eyes out of the sun so his lashes were lidded slightly. "I... I'm fine..! For now that is..." He managed to eek out over the wind. He had moved his hand from his mouth to the harness, though he still had the leather in a death grip. After an awkward moment of staring on his part, he slowly lowered his eyes to look at a large shoulder. It blocked his view of the tiny ground beneath them and it suited him just fine. He unconsciously nuzzled the shirt under his head, drawing comfort from it.

Soon, but not soon enough for Jace, the Fearow landed in Slateport. Jace sighed and rested a hand over his rapidly beating heart. That confused him. The danger was over but he still had an accelerated heart rate. He blinked as he drew the conclusion that Brigson caused it, but didn't understand how exactly. He shook his head lightly and waited for the other to dismount before doing so himself.