I feel kind of bad about just taking their papers back after we beat them up, but I guess it’s a form of payback. I mean, they did try to beat [i]us[/i] up. When Chip uses the badges to teleport us home, I try and follow along and act like I totally remember that they can do that. Because I do, obviously. Yeah. I mean, who wouldn’t? I laugh maybe a little too nervously as the Drifblim hands us our reward, thanking him as he left. [i]One hundred and fifty pokedollars, times three… That would be, what, four hundred and fifty, total?[/i]
	
	“That paid pretty well, all things considered.” I realize. Did he know that we were going to get in a fight like this all along? Maybe... is he actually some sort of chessmaster, orchestrating everything from behind the scenes, all for his own gain? Actually, I guess that the one most likely to be the chessmaster is the guild leader. Like, maybe the crazy guildmaster we met earlier was just a figurehead designed to fool us into thinking that he’s just acting like a crazy kook and is actually super awesome, but he’s actually just a crazy kook, and the real guildmaster is an AI buried underneath the guild designed to protect the last vestiges of civilization from destruction, and it’s interpreting this as getting rid of anyone who gets too powerful, because last time everyone just blew each other up or something, and this Desia pokemon might just be someone who’s only accidentally upset the status quo, or maybe that’s what any number of the other outlaw-types are, and we’re just contributing to the eternal stagnation of our own kind. [i]And maybe WE were the true villains all al-[/i]

	"Hey, Rebecca, have you seen Levita around here, anywhere?" Nina asks, interrupting my train of thought. I stop, thinking for a moment. I mean, the last time I saw her was in that grassy field. Where could she have gone off to since then?

	“Well, I think Levita likes to take walks a lot,” I muse. “She could have taken one earlier, I guess?” Or maybe she learned too much and upset the secret true guildmaster, and we’re better off not knowing where she is now, which is honestly a lot more scary to me. Either way, we’re hopefully going to run into her again at some point. For now, though, finding something nice to eat (to celebrate our very first job well done) actually sounds like a pretty solid idea.