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[hashtagafreakingghost]

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Hi! This is Ashley. I, um, can't come to the phone- gear right now? Leave me a message and I'll get back to you ASAP, okay? Bye!

*Let me know the time/date of your message!

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[perma audio] LETS SEE IF I CAN DO THIS.....

[hashtagafreakingghost]

[About five seconds then-] Hello! Rakka, what's up? How've you been?

YOU CAN DO THIS...

[charcoalfeather]

Hey! [Excellent reaction time, Ashley. She's definitely happy.]

I'm doing fine, great even. I finally decided to go to Azalea town and get the badge there!

[oh] But, how are you, Ashley?

[hashtagafreakingghost]

Oh, I'm. [There's the briefest of pauses.] I'm doing alright? I'm good.

[She actually sounds like she means it, which is a bit of a surprise for her.]

Glad to hear from you again, that's for sure!

[charcoalfeather]

Hehe, good. It's so nice to hear from you again. [Possibly a month's time had passes since Rakka saw Ashley in person. My how times flies. And after some friends made quiet exits...]

Are your Pokemon doing well? [It's a natural topic to turn to now.] Mine have just been getting stronger every day now.

[hashtagafreakingghost]

Them? Ohh... [She considers, and then Ashley lets out a small laugh.] They're doing pretty well, yeah. Even the, ah, newest arrival.

[Little shiny egg, little shiny pony.]

...But you know, Agatha's still holding on to that Everstone. I think she wants to be the strongest Litwick in the world, funny, right?

[charcoalfeather]

Newest... Oh! I know what you mean.

[She's got a shiny little Cubone following her now. He's a brave little boy.]

It makes sense. I think Bright doesn't want to evolve either. She'd rather stay as an Espurr, so I went out and bought an everstone just for her too. [She remembers something and sighs.] And my ghost pokemon keep trying to steal it too.

[hashtagafreakingghost]

[Oh boy, ghosts... Ashley frowns, though Rakka can't see.] Ugh, that is just so like them, isn't it?! Why can't all of them be behaved like Jadis...? [Bless her Froslass, the one well-mannered ghost.] I wish there was a manners school for them or something, you know?

[charcoalfeather]

[she can hear her frowning ;n;]

Me to, b-but I guess that's just the way some of them are. At least they're just trying to have some fun, hehe. [And not, well, trying to suck out their souls. At least deliberately.]

They aren't behaving too badly, are they Ashley? Does that Phantump still follow you around?

[hashtagafreakingghost]

That- oh, ah, oh. [Ashley sounds suddenly a little flustered.] I didn't tell you, huh? She, um... Yeah, she does, but that's because I caught her awhile back.

[charcoalfeather]

Oh? Oh!

[O-oh....]

You did, really? W-well, uh... was it hard capturing her? Is she behaving any better now?

[Rakka's pretty curious now.]

[hashtagafreakingghost]

Oh, it. It wasn't, really, she... She got on the wrong side of a gang of cat Pokémon. I saw her getting beat-up and I couldn't just leave her, and...

[She sighs.]

I guess I just grew used to her. She's... She was just lonely. [...In fact, it sounds like she has the little tree there with her, because there's a soft Phantump yawn.]

[charcoalfeather]

...Ashley, that was so kind of you. And you even fought your fear! [Is she quietly in awe? Maybe. Just a little.]

Is, is that her right now?

[hashtagafreakingghost]

[A small, awkward laugh.] Yeeep, that's her. That's Samara. I- it wasn't really all that. ...And having something so devoted to you isn't that bad, really.

[charcoalfeather]

Hehe! I know what you mean, my Phantump...

[A sudden gasp.]

M-my Phantump!

[hashtagafreakingghost]

[?]

Yeah...? What about it, is something wrong?

[charcoalfeather]

O-oh... No. No, everything's fine. [ahem. eheh] It's just, I realized something: I have a Phantump, named Spooky.

[AKA: "aaaah please don't hurt me waaaah"]

And you have Samara.... a-and they've never met before.

[hashtagafreakingghost]

[oh no what a cute name for a ghost, rakka]

Ohhh, you're right?! Rakka, I completely forgot! [that time you catch a pokemon you're afraid of for a friend but it's not the same pokemon are they looking back on this and laughing at last?]

Do- you know, we should let them have a, um, play-date! Where are you right now?

[charcoalfeather]

[Oh goodness they are finally able to laugh about that little mess now. Poor Rakka had tried so hard.]

Yes, that's a great idea! But- uh... right now, I'm in Azalea town. [This might be a long trek for a play-date.]

M-maybe we can still do it!

[hashtagafreakingghost]

Ohhh... I'm still in Goldenrod. Umm... Let's see, we could...

[She hasn't used the teleporters yet so. She can't suggest that oops.]

Damn, uh. ...What about a temporary trade?

[charcoalfeather]

We could, um...

[the teleporters are... weird, Ashley. Rakka doesn't exactly support them, especially after the amount of static she got the last time she went through one.]

A... temporary trade? What do you mean?

[hashtagafreakingghost]

There's this mechanic, you know, where you can send one of your Pokémon to someone else in exchange for one of theirs? And its really easy, I saw- I saw someone at the Pokémon Center, you know? Doing that. Like, either I send Samara to you or you send Spooky to me, and they can have a little meetup. So even if we aren't in the same place, they'll be!

[charcoalfeather]

A mechanic, huh... [Oh. Wait. That's because they're in a "game". Wasn't that just what Dave told her a long time ago? Definitely something like that.]

You did? Wow, um... [hmmm] O-okay! Then, we can absolutely do this! I know there's a Pokemon center in Azalea, and you're in Goldenrod... Trading one of them should be easy, right?

[it should be.]

Maybe I can send Spooky over there?

SHAKES SELF BACK TO THIS THREAD

[hashtagafreakingghost]

Yeah! [...why is she so enthusiastic about more ghosts]

Yours doesn't make too much trouble, right...? I have some Pokémon that can corral anyone if it gets to that point, but, you know.

shimmies back into here

[charcoalfeather]

No, no she doesn't cause trouble... Uh, not anymore anyway. [they may have had a talk, or two, about it]

He's really been on his best behavior for me recently. Ever since... the ghost festival, that is, he never tried to scare me or anything.

[Little guy didn't want his trainer coming down with a bad case of being dead.]

now that i've murdered french jesus and can focus on this again

[hashtagafreakingghost]

Okay... Okay, then, send let's take this conversation to a Pokémon Center! Send Spooky over and I...hmm... What kind of visitor would you like? What about...oh, you said you have an Espurr? I've got a Meowstic, Eliot would probably love to meet another cat!

[A beat.]

Maybe literally. He's a bit of a slut when it comes to cats.