"Sorta," she admitted, nodding slowly. Tired of dangling her arms, she leaned on the nearby tree trunk, her arms behind her neck. "I can get you on the shady part. I once told a good friend that science advances more when the 'bad guys' do it because they are a lot more fearless and ready to take risks. It's amazing what you can do when you lack certain emotions."

Lash's smile was much less subtle than Uxie's however, and she grinned before continuing. "I'm pretty sure you know what I'm going to ask you. You wouldn't be the being of knowledge otherwise. I don't know your powers, but I'm going to guess you have a lot of the known and classified Pokemon psychic ones. Heck, at this point after meeting Arceus at school, I'm almost wondering if you didn't teach it to them. Anyway, I'm rambling again, teeheehee..." She coughed, and looked in his direction.

"Someone once told me that our decisions are not truly our own; fate carves our paths out in stone before we are even conceived. I...want to find out if that's really true. I suppose you could call it an experiment in the human psyche, with myself as the subject. I want to give myself tools, and see when faced in the end with the knowledge of what happened if I should just ignore it, or full embrace it. I want to see how well I can judge myself and how I'll act. Will I be smart enough to see what will happen? Am I going to fail horribly and have everyone on my back?" There was a pause. "Of course, I'm taking a risk talking to you in the first place, but I figure either are going to turn me in, or you'll help me out and I'll owe you a favor."

The implications were pretty heavy. The risks were great. But hell, if this was going to be the most interesting thing she would do in her entire life. The greatest experiment of all.