"I'll certainly consider it. Give me some advance notice and I can check with the necessary parties-" Phoenix. "-and make sure we're good to go."

His question caused her to pause and she nodded, surprisingly stoic looking for dancing with Knuckles at a so-called happy occasion. "You remember when the city pretty much erupted into chaos, right? Since the contest hall is there, I had intentions to work on it and I got cornered by the whole... sub-human versus human conundrum. If it hadn't been for this girl... Chiyo, her name is, and Blue, it could have turned bad. Chiyo had it worse than I did, though. No one laid a hand on me."

Then her head tipped, "Makes me really not want to be a Pokemon anymore, though. Things are a little better now, but it's a stark reminder that Pokemon will never fit completely into the human world."