One Step

"Looks like I finally made it," Kami muttered under her breath. She let out a sigh, rubbing the joints of her arm. Even for an experienced traveler, she had come a long way in a short span of time. Her old partners were safely resting back home. Some people will say that it was rough starting over from the beginning, but she felt like this would make for a better experience. Plus, her other Pokemon needed time to recuperate and relax after all they had to deal with.

"This should be it," she remarked, strolling to the front of the entrance.  Yes, this was doable, just another region to explore. With that in mind, Kami took her first step into the professor's humble abode. Her eyes took in the place, noting the difference between all the other laboratories in the past. Each professor always had their own taste and research, the laboratory often reflected their own personality. None of the ones she met had ever been unpleasant, which made her rather thankful.

"Ah, excuse me, I'm sorry if I came in a bad time," she spoke up, encroaching deeper in the lab.

"My name is Kami Chi, I was wondering if it'll be alright to explore this region and the indigenous Pokemon here and perhaps request a starter to help?"

Early mornings meant lazily lounging in your sleeping bag, hoping the sun would slip back into it's nightly slumber, no longer to shine light directly in your eyes. It promised wide, gaping mouthed yawned, and roughly kept, bed hair tossed to and fro. It warmed the hearts with promises of piping hot coffee, boiling in the bulbous bowls as it's brewed to steaming perfection.

Often, it found the young Professor curled up, sleeping bag in toe and wrapped, bound around him in his favorite chair. A singular, black laptop sat upon his cherry wood desk, opened with colorful lighted displays as he typed away, conducting various research. Usually, he spent his mornings briefing notes from his colleagues such as Professor Oak or Ivy, and sometimes adding in his own comments.

It would boil into a usual day. His help was busy off tending the fields of his lab. He'd sent Victoria off to study the wild white stallions with their flaming manes, and measure the horns of the different males of the herd. Perhaps with a little luck, he could gather ground breaking research between the phenomenon of their horns, and the advantages it might give one over another, besides defense. Ah, but of course sometimes you spent a lifetime just recollecting another man's facts, and sometimes you discovered something unique.

It was an older lady, arguably truly in the prime of her life. He would have to guess around her older twenties, possibly early thirties by first glance. But it wasn't her age that caught his attention - no. The woman toppled him in height! Considering that the Professor was six feet and five inches himself, this was no easy feat - but she even cleared the gap easily it would seem! He collected his mouth, with a light shade of pink to decorate his face as he blushed. "I'm sorry, miss."

He closed the laptop, pushed his chair back, and stood up. Quickly, he closed the gap between them by walking over to her. He would reach out a single hand in a gesture - ready to shake her hand if she wanted, but he wouldn't force it. For some people, it was a warming gesture and an appreciated one, whilst others considered it unsanitary and preferred not. "My name is Professor Brambles. We can certainly help you with a starter, ma'am. If you'll follow me."

He would lead her up to the deep, very luxuriously painted mahogany wooden desk that sat in the middle of his work room.It always held his random three starters for that day. Luckily, he had already shifted in three lucky new Pokemon, ready to begin their very own Pokemon adventure with their lucky, prospective trainers. Upon the desk sat three round, spherical devices with padding on the inside, and a transparent glass top, showing off the simple red and black Pokeball within each. "Are you ready to meet your choices?" He would ask her with a gentle smile.

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[OOC: Hey, I offered all old members a perk, and I just want to confirm whether or not you're utilizing one of them? One of the offers was a lv 5 legendary as a starter - I didn't know if you were saving it or using any of the offers on Kami. ^^]