[Violette Minique]

Violette made her way to the business district of Mavro City to go check up on her mother. Neither one of her parents keep in contact with her so every once in a while she had to go track them down to see if they were doing okay, oh and let them know she was fine. Her dad was a lot harder to look for being that he never stayed in one place for too long so she decided to go check on her mom who usually keeps in contact with her husband. And then she would pass along Violette's message to her dad. As a child she recalled them being so busy but it wasn't to a point that she had to go check on them. Her mother got herself a nice promotion here on the island and at some point opened up her own business. Violette recalled one time calling her mother's business and they told her there was three week waiting list. She has no idea there were that many people on the island until she was told that a lot of people come to the island for her mother's expertise.

Violette spent a few hours with her mom and they talked, and of course it was usually her mother apologizing about not being around and forgetting to call her. And again Violette had to remind her that it was okay, that she didn't mind as long as she called her once a week. It used to be everyday. then every other day, to every few days, to now once a week. Violette already expressed that she grew tired of making trips out to make sure her mother was okay and not overworking herself. That did happen before, her mother got sick because she hadn't eaten or drink anything for two whole days and she collapsed. It made Violette suspicious as to what she was doing, it made no sense for a breeder to be working so hard. But alas her mother would dismiss her accusations.

Violette allowed her mother to check up on Velvet and Quicksilver, both seemed to look healthy and were eating well so no problems there. And once that was done and she said her goodbyes Violette was off. She decided maybe she'd wander around a bit before getting some food and heading back to the school. She wondered if there was a place to eat around here, she assumed so considering nearly everyone who lived here worked here specifically. She settled Velvet into her pokeball so she didn't wander around and Quicksilver was at her side and on edge. He was very protective of his trainer and didn't like it when she came out here. Unfamiliar territory wasn't a safe place to be wandering around aimlessly. Violette brushed her hair out of her eyes and walked along a string of businesses in hopes of finding food.

[Santos "Shadow" Almaz]

Santos exited out of a nearby building walking along the business district of Mavro City with a confident smile. He had just reported into Origin HQ with the result of his most recent exploration of Thorn Citadel and some webbing from the bug pokemon that where there which one of the scientist were more then happy to receive for research. He also reported that his pokemon team was becoming stronger as each day passed and the report got him his weekly pay. He put aside half of it for his rent and kept the rest for himself. With Cash in his wallet, Santos was in the mood to find some food.

[Violette Minique]

Violette managed to fine a small diner between a bunch of business buildings, it was like home cooked meals. A family owned place, it looked so comfy and right at home. It reminded her of when her parents were around and her mother cooked. She found herself craving some noodles all of a sudden.

Violette went inside and sat herself at one of the window booths, she sat towards the window while Quicksilver sat next to her. He calmed down some thanks to the food smell and the home like environment. An older gentleman came up to the girl to take her order, they chatted for a bit. Business seemed to be slow today. The man was one of two brothers that ran the place with their sister. They inherited from their parents.

After the nice talk, Violette ordered some noodle soup. Just what she was craving and also ordered some pokemon food for Velvet and Quicksilver. He would eat his now. It would be bad to take Velvet out now because she'd run all over the place.

Violette in the mean time looked at her phone, scrolling through messages from her friends from Unova. Even though she hadn't seen them in ages she kept in contact via phone. She only started chatting with them after one of them found her and gave her their number. Then she got the others and have been catching up with them. So she remained quiet and affixed to her phone for the time being.

[Santos "Shadow" Almaz]

Santos passed by a family diner. His parent and him had periodically visited the diner for meals out and they were known for their comfort food. Santos hummed in thought he could use some comfort food to reward himself for a fine weeks work and entered into the diner. Business was slow which was just fine with Santos. He didn't particularly like crowded places. Too many people in one place made him uncomfortable.

He got a table in a corner and rested against the wall and when the waiter came and took his order he ordered a pot roast dinner. He eyed a lone purple haired female sitting alone working on her phone. A smirk crossed his face as he studied her.

[Violette Minique]

Violette was just completing a message to her friend, she was too engrossed into the message to notice that someone came in. But after a while she did feel like someone was staring at her. Not realizing that someone came in she wasn't sure how she was feeling this way. It could be just the waiter walking around. But she didn't see him either. She didn't want to look up and around because then it would be obvious that she knew that someone was watching her. So she continued to remain unfazed about the whole thing. With this Quicksilver wouldn't run around getting antsy and what not.

She put her phone away and at the same time the nice waiter returned with her noodle soup. Again they chatted for a moment, still feeling the invisible eyes on her and then thanked the waiter for her food and something for her pokemon to eat. Once he left Violette took her eating utensil and began eating very carefully. She didn't want to get any of the broth of her and was very careful with how she ate.

As she was eating her phone went off and she looked to see it was her mother. She frowned and answered it.

"Yes mother what is it?"

She said in a patient but obviously annoyed tone. She hoped that she didn't lose something or forgot something. Hearing her mother on the phone she did forget something, but it wasn't something like her glasses or her work book. She meant to give a carepackage to Violette and wanted her to come back to get it.

"Well I'm eating now, I'll pick it up when I finish alright?"

Once her mother agreed she hung up the phone and sighed.

"She'd forget her head if it wasn't so attached to her body."

Quicksilver looked up to Violette and snicked a bit. Violette gave her pokemon a small smile and turned to them, that's when she noticed someone from the corner of her eye. Who was that and when did he get here?

[Santos "Shadow" Almaz]

Santos chuckled lightly to himself when Violette finally got aware that he was observing her from a distance. Could you call Santos a creep for his staring, yeah you could but Santos was an observer. Instead of directly engaging people, he watched them and their pokemon and if anything Violette had going for her was that her pokemon were loyal to her.

His food arrived soon after and he took his attention off of Violette to begin eating his food in a calm manner.

[Violette Minique]

So this was the guy that staring at her the entire time, Violette was still eating, but Quicksilver noticed something was bothering her. She shook her head trying not to worry him. The Sneasel understood this very well and so he decided to ignore whatever was bothering her. Violette peered out of the corner of her eye once again and notice that the guy was eating now, his eyes were completely off of her now. 

Violette thought about it for a moment but she decided to give the guy a taste of his own medicine now. She was now looking right at him, studying him right back. She noticed he was a fairly young guy, maybe her age or a little older. He didn't look like he went to the school so he was probably doing something else. They were in the business district, maybe he got a job with one of the businesses here. Yeah that would make sense, he seemed rather reserved as if he was always thinking or something. Other than staring at creepily he seemed to be fairly normal, maybe he was just assessing her as she was to him. This is her first time being here and if he worked here then maybe he just wanted to see her because he knows people here and would obviously know that she wasn't from here. 

She finally shrugged, guess there wasn't anything bad about the whole situation after all. Violette was finishing up her noodles. Once she was done she had to head back to her mother's job to pick up the care package she forgot to give her. She was still a little annoyed about that but...her mom tried and it's the thought that counts. She tried to hurry and finish the last bit of noodles so she can get up and go.

[Santos "Shadow" Almaz]

Santos just calmly ate his food even as Violette was staring at him. Sometimes he wished he could read people's minds and learn what they were thinking but he could most likely guess what she was trying to do. She was trying to figure out who was this mysterious purple haired guy was. Well if she really wanted to know all she had to do was approach him, and if he really wanted to know who she was he had to approach her. However Santos had no reason to approach her. After all he had no business with her, so why should he bother getting to know her?

After she stopped staring and scanning Santos, Santos gave Violette and a quick smile and a chuckle lightly escaped his mouth. "Do unto others as you like done upon yourself." He muttered

[Violette Minique]

Violette finally finished her meal and placed her utensil inside the bowl and was getting up now. Quicksilver finished his meal and got up so that Violette could get out. Once she got up she walked over to the counter to give her plate back to the waiter before he got to her table. She then went to pay for her meal at the register. On her way there she noticed the guy smiling at her and said something but it was to himself so she couldn't hear him. Oh well, Quicksilver looked at the guy with a dead stare, making sure he was pulling no funny business. Violette took a moment to speak with the cashier, another sibling that worked there as well. After a few minutes she paid her meal and was walking out, she then had a thought come to her. The same thought that the stranger had earlier, only Violette decided to make sure that he knew what she was thinking this time around.


Violette walked over to the guy on her way out, she stopped just a few feet from him.


"You know," She began.


"Curiosity killed the meowth but satisfaction brought it back. Instead of borrow holes in peoples heads and studying them, you might just want to get up and say hello. It won't kill you to try."

She then left him before he could say anything, if he would even. She didn't have time to stay and idly chat anymore she had to go pick up her package. Quicksilver stayed behind for a moment to glare at the kid, as if to say, don't try anything funny. The Sneasel lingered for a moment before running off to easily catch up to his trainer.

[Santos "Shadow" Almaz]

Santos smirked at the line and light chuckled "kill me to try." He replied "You know I've heard that line before..." He went to look but she was already on her way out but her Sneasel was giving him the glare as if to not mess with his trainer but it quickly ran off to catch up with his trainer

Santos huffed "Oy Hold up." He growled as he got up. He left some cash on the table most likely more then his meal was worth but hey the restaurant could use the tip and headed out himself.

"Hey, you can't just leave a conversation half finished." He stated roughly as he caught up to Violette. He was tempted to grab her arm or hand to make her stop but figured that Sneasel would be fast on the claw to go for an attack against him if he attacked Violette so he didn't

[Violette Minique]

Violette was ready to call this a victory, in it's own way. Now all she had to do was get back to her mom's workplace and then she could go home. It seems she spoke too soon on that victory, he heard the guy just behind her. He was pretty fast, Violette is a quick walker and it didn't take him long to catch up to her. She turned her head slightly and raised a brow at him. She didn't exactly stop to chat either, she slowed her pace as she spoke to him.

"Oh so now you want to have a conversation? I have some place to be so if you really want to talk keep up."

She then started walking back her original pace again, Quicksilver the Sneasel wasn't too happy that the guy was following them now. He had half a mind to attack him, but that wouldn't look good for his trainer's sake so he didn't.

"If you're still here, I have to ask you something. You seem pretty young but I don't think I've seen you around the academy. Do you live out here in the city? And do you work for a business out here?"

She wasn't sure if he was going to break the ice first or whatever, or if he was sticking around but she would at least make the attempt to say something first.

[Santos "Shadow" Almaz]

Santos huffed as he matched Violette pace "fine," he growled

"Yeah I live in Mavro City in the residential area, born and raised and the reason you don't see me in the academy is because I finished my schooling last year and went to work for a research company. I often go out throughout the island to the different areas to do research and training. So if you haven't seen me I'm not surprised, I tend to go into areas that most academy students avoid for particular reasons but that's good in my book, you get more natural data from the less human presence.

[Violette Minique]

Violette couldn't help but shake her head and laugh a little at the annoyed boy.

"Sounds like someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed today."

She continued to walk at her pace since he was able to keep pace with her. Her mother's work place was not that far from the restaurant, she could even see the building from where they were now. She listened carefully to his explanation. It was apparent he was a student and had already graduated and was doing field work for a company to study pokemon. She nodded.

"You don't look no older then sixteen, but early graduations happen I guess."

He said something about being in places students don't normally go to.

"You must be talking about the restricted access areas. As far as I know those are the only places where most students wouldn't be at since they're not allowed to be there."

That made a lot of sense, being that he was no longer a student there was no actual need for him to be stopped from entering those places. It was interesting, it made her quiet down a little while she was in thought. She thought about wanting to go in there as well. There might've been tougher pokemon there and she'd like to catch some if she had the chance to. 

[Santos "Shadow" Almaz]

Santos scoffed at the waking up on the wrong side of the bed line then rolled his eyes at the early graduation "I wish..." He muttered "I just got sick of the academy that's all. I decided to take my control of my own life and from it I've actually gained more in less time then anything I could ever have done at the academy and that includes access to the 'restricted zones'." He looked at Violette "You know we got off on the wrong foot. I'm Santos. What's your name."

[Violette Minique]

Violette nodded.

"Well if it worked out for you better than that's good I suppose."

They were now just a few feet from the building and stopped at the door that's when the other introduced himself. Santos huh? She would've expected something to match his rather brooding demeanor. She run the bell to let her mother know she was outside.

"I'm Violette, I supposed we did get off on the wrong foot. Anyways, my mother is gonna let me in to give me a care package. You're free to come on inside I guess."