"Thanks... I-it's nice to meet you too." Alice mumbled, shaking his hand carefully. Zach seemed like a nice enough person, but part of Alice still wished that the announcer would call the next battle, or he would suddenly remember he had something he needed to do. It wasn't that she was scared of him or anything, it was simply that when confronted by people she didn't know, Alice had real trouble figuring out what to do. She didn't understand social interaction, it wasn't something that you could learn in a book. Technically, she knew some of the theories behind the psychology of human interacdion and had read a large number of pretty awful young adult novels. Regardless of how much she tried to understand people, something about them still eluded her.

"I'm sorry to hear you lost." Alice almost sighed "A Litwick... That could be problematic for Celia..." At this point, she was no longer really talking to Zach as she began to crunch numbers in her mind. She didn't know much about ghost Pokemon, to be perfectly honest there was something about them that creeped her out. But, needless to say, she knew something. She knew that with the heat, Celia being tired and the Litwick being commanded by a strong trainer, her chances were slim. "Crap... I need this, I need to win this. Think Alice, you can do this..."