pokémon moon spoilers

[moonsmile]

The smooth stone beneath her feet shifts to grass. That's a little strange.

The sky goes from dark and star-speckled to...not quite sunny, but clearly day. That's more like it.

Nebbie escapes their Ball and flutters above her, making excited chirping noises at the wall in front of them both.



They look back at her, glee and curiosity pressing against her mind. Did you do this? Where are we? This is new! ♪

Moon's climbed the Altar of the Moon and Mount Lanakila enough to recognize clouds at her level, but this is obviously neither. The ruins of Poni don't look anything like this worn wall, or the parapets she can barely see high above. That looks more like...a Kalos thing. Did she walk into an alternate version of there?

Nebbie calls to her again, flying up and over until Moon can't see her at all. Green, grass, soft! she hears.

...Nebbie does not come back.

Moon's smile doesn't falter. It's more of a chance to look around this new space, after all, and Nebbie can handle themselves.

She adjusts her hat and heads into the first entrance she can find. 

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[voidster]

"Not relevant to the castle." Not... really. Certainly there are actual important things to be telling her, if he's going to keep on talking.

"Mostly children here. Some monsters, some human. Generally they are friendly. Some are the same person, alternate timelines."

[moonsmile]

Was that a redirection? He's less obnoxious about it than other adults she's met, at the very least. Her teeth tighten behind her lips, where he can't see, before she lets it go for now.

"Monsters?" Monsters... She's heard that term before, but she can't quite recall where. Alternates are less of a surprise--she hasn't met her counterpart, but she has met her Solgaleo--and presumably, that maybe-Moon has met her Lunala as well. Maybe they'll actually get a chance to talk, if both of them managed to get to this castle.

[voidster]

"Monsters. People made of mostly magic, not matter. I am one."

Anyway. He gestures down the hall, shrugging a shoulder.

"Tour?"

[moonsmile]

Magic isn't real, it's something humans don't understand yet. That must be what he means.

"No, my friend first." Haven't you noticed she's been heading in one direction fairly deliberately, doctor?

[voidster]

Haha. He's not a doctor. Hasn't been in a long time. Ha. Ha.

He's following her, gait not quite steady. Yesterday, he'd awoken to realize his ankle will no longer bend and now he has to compensate for that... not long until he becomes useless, he thinks.

Oh, well, that day is not today.

"Fair enough. Can do both, though."

[moonsmile]

Wouldn't it be natural for skeletons to walk stiffly? She'll definitely be able to identify this guy from far away from that walk alone.

"Tell me about the castle," she says instead. It looked large from the outside, and it seems even more inside.

[voidster]

Well, maybe now, but when not a shambling mess... he's always been fairly quick on his feet.

"Peculiar. People appear, disappear, as well as rooms. And objects. Plenty of food, made by no one. The rooms and halls always move when you're not looking."

[moonsmile]

Ahead of them, Moon notices clouds are lighter. Not quite thinner, but paler.

Her already-slow pace is curbed further. Most of that sounds like a dream. The rest...

"Disappear?" How and have you seen it are rolled up in that question.

[voidster]

"They return home. I was told you'll lose no time."

So far so good, she's understanding him.

[moonsmile]

...does she lose time when she travels? She thinks she does, but the differences in the day and night already made that hard to remember.

"Through wormholes." Naturally. "And you don't know what's doing it."

[voidster]

"No. We don't." Wormholes, there's a word he hasn't heard in a long time. Maybe she actually knows of such a thing, but he won't waste speech on asking.

"Some have been here years."

[moonsmile]

No?

"You're trapped?" No we.

decided to do the 'accent' after all, lmk if it's annoying

[voidster]

"We are." We doesn't necessarily mean himself and her. Everyone's trapped.

"I've been rube, haven't I? What's your name?"

gotcha~

[moonsmile]

She doesn't acknowledge that outwardly. The thought of being trapped lances ice through her gut, but she knows she can get out. Nebbie's with her, and her mom or the Professors would notice her missing eventually.

"I'm Moon. I was looking for somewhere exciting."

[voidster]

Moon isn't a strange name at all. Bratty and Catty, now those are silly names.

"The average day is not very exciting, in my opanion. I go by Gaster."

[moonsmile]

Of course it's strange. Exotic, in Kanto. It just sounds weird in Alola, but at least everyone's nice enough there not to mention it.

"I've never been in a castle before." It's sort of impressive.

[voidster]

"Neiher had I. Different when you're confinet without modern technologhy." The castle is much smaller than the underground, after all, and with so few people these days. Oh, well, it's still a step up from the void.

He pauses and opens a door they're passing... just another empty bedroom, very very dusty.

[moonsmile]

It's a strange place...but she's tempted.

Very tempted.

...

She wanders in like it's natural and drops onto the bed, atop the blankets and all. It's a bad habit, but Moon finds she learns a lot testing beds.

It's very soft, but incredibly musty. It's nearly sad how long nobody's used it...

And then she hops up again. "It looks like a museum."

[voidster]

"Not clean enough for a mufeum."

His poor pronunciation really makes no sense. Oh, well, walking talking skeleton.

"There are cleaner rooms."

[moonsmile]

"Are you biting your tongue?"

She brushes herself off, looking around a little more. There are minuscule cobwebs in the corners. A desk with paper--scrolls, but there's no writing at all. A bucket, empty of anything but rings of old waterstains.

Oh well, there's plenty of other rooms to explore, aren't there?

[voidster]

"Don't have one."

Laughter in his voice, as he watches them explore. Not the dangerous sort of human child, he thinks.

"Comlicated skeleton... thing. I don't hear myself the way you hear me. Never sure what I'm s-saying."

[moonsmile]

She halts and looks him over again, far more deliberately than before.

Moon understands. "You don't have ears."

...But he can hear her, so...maybe she doesn't.

[voidster]

"No, it's strainer than that. I hear nonsense, you hear words."

Absolutely he could give a better explanation, if she weren't new and needing more important things explained, if he had the patience to truly speak freely. If.

Oh, well, she seems laid-back.

[moonsmile]

"But you know how to talk..."

She's got more important things to do than interrogate a skeleton how it talks--Moon starts walking away again, a little faster. Maybe he'll be able to keep up, maybe he won't; she'll be keeping an ear out to see which is which, but she's not going to slow down just for him.

[voidster]

"Yes."

Well. Either he's making her nervous after all, having the sheer nerve to stand around looking like the undead, or she's worried about her friend.

He doesn't need to walk any faster. He cheats. Suddenly, he's opening a door she's passing, just wide enough to grin at her. Shortcuts!

(A little immature, but funny. Soon he probably won't feel up to being amusing.)

"Rather explore alone?"