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-  Pokedex Line
- Interacting with: Euphoria Caulfield ([@Lichthart])  in the presence of Professor Grevillia ([@Sho Minazuki])[/center]
[hr]Ryan took a deep breath of relief when her heard the Professor's words, a content smile finding its way across his face despite feeling semi like an idiot. He hadn't taken notice of the box that was filled with pokedexes just for the occasion, making him laugh rather silently to himself as his smile turned into that of a embarrassed wince. The smile was still there, but his left arm was now scratching the back of his neck, along with his eyes being closed. And even though he felt somewhat out of place, he did feel a tad bit of assurance in his actions. After all, even if she had teased him a bit, it was good news that she had such a surplus, which made sense given the situation.

Which soon took a drastic shift shortly after he received his pokedex. The once clean smell of the air around him was tainted with the stench of smoke emitting from someone approaching. He coughed a bit due to the smell, soon noticing a girl somewhere around his own age cutting everyone off and soon demanding her own Pokedex. Well, at least it was said somewhat nicely with the kindly part, he thought, but he wasn't prepared for what she said next. It caused him to freeze up like he'd done a thousand times before, his eyes widening when she insulted him basically to his face. He... He wouldn't get lost, he thought! Sure he was getting a pokedex, but he had a plan of where he wanted to go already. But, that wasn't the main problem in her evaluation of him.

It was how she made him notice he was being much more awkward than he had originally thought. Was he really mumbling that bad? It made his embarrassment become replaced with a kind of shame, the same kind of shame he often felt when in the presence of his mother. Critical, rude, and kicking him while he was down... And yet, all he felt he could do was freeze. At least, until the professor began speaking about how smoking was basically banned in the place. That made sense, and right now he needed some sort of logical thinking to keep him from doing something stupid. Because deep inside him, he wanted to do something rash like tell her off, but a majority of him silenced that voice, silenced like it had been on multiple occasions.

Instead, he took another deep breath, this time to calm him down from this intrusion of this girl, whom, if Ryan was being honest, wasn't entirely sure how he felt about her. His first impression was that she was probably just another rude person, but maybe she was just condescending? He wasn't sure how that made her better, but it sorta did in his mind. He turned to face her this time, placing the Pokedex in his pocket just in case.

[color=#8470FF]"I, uh, don't mean to be rude, but um, you could... probably treat others with, uh, a bit more respect..."[/color] He said with uttermost confidence, or at least with his very best. Though, his constant uh's and um's made it seem less so.