[ A ghost in the middle of a big city? That sounds difficult.

But when Silver says the most important thing, Ikki relaxes a little, grinning. She may not be in sync with Soren during battles, when her being seven and very much less experienced than him and the third in a successive series of trainers gets in the way of Soren listening at times, but she's never had any trouble trusting or caring for him.

But then, she'd sort of started out considering him one of her best friends rather than a pokemon. Which was...typical. ]

I met Soren my very first day here, you know! [ Soren gets an apple slice while Ikki talks, smiling. ] Soren and Chien! I don't think Chien meant to come and see me, except Soren saw me bending air, and so he came and showed me he was an airbender, too!

...I know that's not what to call it. Flying pokemon, right? But, that's how I always thought of him. And whenever I met up with Chien, Soren would show me what he'd learned, and I'd show him what I learned. It was always really fun, spending time with both of them.

[ And that's always been the easy part. ] I think we're getting better at the simulations Sifu has us run, though, right, Soren? Although I guess we need to work on herding things. [ ...and other things...well, no helping that. ] And Soren gets to go to airbending practice with me, too.

[ There are always a thousand things Ikki wants to know, but even she's self-aware enough not to ask them of someone who looks like death warmed over (...if even the "warmed over" part).

But there is one of those ridiculous childish questions she'd asked Masaomi that he hadn't been able to answer, and now is as good a time as ever. So, if she has to pick one question... ]

If a pokemon holds a pokeball with a pokemon in it and goes into a pokeball, what happens?

[ ...obviously she's picking the one that completely doesn't match the mood of that offer.

But inquiring minds need to know! ]

Why can only Pokemon go in pokeballs?

[ Why can't she, for example? ]

So if you point the Pokedex at a pokemon who doesn't have an entry, does anything show up?

But it won't do that for animals, right? So you can tell if something is a Pokemon that way?

[ she's just sort of grinning now. She likes getting things right! ]

When'd you start training pokemon, Silver?

Is there a school for it, or something?

[ She's. Never really talked about this in-depth with anyone. ]

[ Whoooooooa. Trainer school sounds pretty awesome, okay. ]

So when you were little, you just played with him? [ she does a lot of that. Soren is an excellent playmate. Goofing off is basically their main activity when they're not with Masaomi or her grandpa during airbending lessons. ]

[ That question gets a startled look. What ELSE would they be doing in their free time, man? ]

Of course! We went through the maze TONS of times when it was here, although that's not normally what we do - but it was special!! So we went through it a lot. And Soren teased some of the ghosts which I said might not be a great idea so we got chased for a little - do you remember that? But they weren't as scary as Haunters so that was okay. [ that aside was to Soren, who does remember, but those ghosts started it okay ] We play pretend a lot, or do air tag - that's where we're both flying and have to catch each other, I borrow grandpa's glider for that - and...lots of things.

[ lots and lots of things. She makes up games at the drop of a hat. ]