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[travelingomen]

Who: Edel Absol and you with the face.
What: Stalking
Where: Everywhere around school.
When: All day long

If you feel like you are being watched today, you probably are.

With a human form privately practiced, being enrolled to take classes and having a dorm of her own for that purpose, today one Edelweiss is taking it upon herself to familiarize herself with Smash Academy's walls and residents more thoroughly than usual. In the past, she had remained in the shadows watching the bunch of weirdos at this place before going back to her Pokeball. But if she was going to be attending it as a student, she would have to know where everything is, what everything is, whatever she could! It's a more effective method to learn, she thought, even though she picked up a decent amount of information just from lurking.

Of course right now she found it more convenient to do so in depth while in her original form.

One might see the Disaster Pokemon in the courtyard, in the student dorm halls, or on the roofs. Probably quite often in tall places, actually. She could see and hear a lot at a time that way.

But no one has come up to talk with her yet! Will you?

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[golonghorns]

Joel was still getting used to this big campus. His classes were going well enough he supposed. But he was still trying to get home if he could.

He walked back onto school grounds after a morning spent in the woods. His brow was damp with sweat and he stopped at a drinking fountain to get a little fresh water into him. As he ducked his head a second time he happened to spot Edel nearby.

"The heck kinda dog is that?" he muttered to himself. Muttering to himself was getting to be more of a habit than it ever had been before. But he had a lot of questions and no-one to ask most of the time.

[travelingomen]

Hello there, Joel. Guess who noticed you see her and is now checking in your direction right now? Edel heard a faint comment come from this forest man taking a drink and turned in that direction. Whoever he was, he sure looked like he had quite a hike this morning. She was being less subtle than normal; of course she would have been noticed. But what was he wondering about her? She was prepared for anything. Especially if this man just came from that insane forest. She kept her gaze in his path and tilted her head. Did you need something?

[golonghorns]

"Hey there, pup." Joel said, taking off his backpack and rummaging around in the front pocket of it. He had a sandwich in there he just hadn't gotten around to eating. It was ham and cheese. Simple, but tasty enough.

"C'mere, now." he said in a gruff, but still kind of gentle manner, as if he was calling pretty much any other dog. He had no idea if that thing was friendly or not but he'd never come across a pooch that didn't dig ham.

Joel had kind of a soft spot for dogs in general. One of the nice things about living in the power plant city was they had a few guard dogs he'd stop and pet every so often. He'd learned early on to avoid the packs of stray dogs that lived outside the safe zones - those things were completely feral and would try and kill you before letting you pet them. For all he knew, this strange looking creature was the same way. But he had a pistol in his front pocket so he wasn't worried.

"You wanna little lunch?"

[travelingomen]

Hahaha, oh dear, this man really was interesting. Never before had anyone offered Edel food in that way. At least not for a long while. What a strange man, this was. Currently, Edel wasn't particularly craving any food and she didn't care for taking a random sandwich from a stranger anyway. This man must have taken her for a normal pet.

She already had a trainer, if what he was trying to do was recruit her. Edel politely raised one of her paws and shook her head with a small laugh. No thank you, sir, she's quite alright. She was more interested in what he was doing than food. She looked up at him again, her expression curious. She glanced in the direction of the forest, then back to him, as if she was asking what he was doing there. Obviously, he wouldn't be able to understand her if she spoke, so this was her best bet.

[golonghorns]

"Th' hell...?"

It had raised a paw. And shook it's head. As if it was... politely declining. A dog had just politely declined a piece of people food.

What was life anymore.

He shrugged and bit into the sandwich himself, in that case. "You're one heck of a strange pooch, I'll give you that." he said through a mouthful of ham and cheese. "Never seen anythin' like you before."

Still. It didn't seem aggressive. He reached out a hand for it to sniff. Maybe it just needed to get a good whiff of him before it felt comfortable enough to accept food. "Still. Seen weirder stuff out in them woods. Is that where you're from? You some kind've wild dog?"