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While traveling to Wyndon this time, Nordrin did end up taking a flying taxi. The airways were hectic with civilians, businessmen, reporters, and the like moving back and forth around Galar in the wake of the last minute notice that the league's opening ceremony was cancelled. If he'd known this was going to happen, Nordrin would have gotten a hotel somewhere in the city last night after leaving the bar. He'd ended up leaving a bit earlier than most of the others so he didn't know what happened after the fact, but he couldn't imagine that the people he'd known for years would be so unprofessional that they'd be too hungover to get their arses up, resulting in the cancellation.

...well, okay, he could picture that scenario happening with perfect clarity. But he doubted it was actually the case.

He stepped out of the cab in front of Hyacinth Tower and made his way to the chairman's office. Like last night his hair was loose, though tossed by the wind. He was dressed in his usual uniform, having expected to be here in town for the ceremony, not an urgent meeting. When he made it to the room he found the faces of his fellow gym leaders that had arrived before him, just as confused about the announcement as everyone else in the whole of Galar. Nordrin said nothing, just patiently awaited the rest of the leaders and the chairman himself.

When Hyacinth did arrive, he dropped quite the bombshell on them all. 

Almost everyone present immediately dove into questioning the man. What were the details, what were the next steps? Nordrin himself agreed with Fiona and Astrid when they exclaimed that the gym leaders should assist in finding Ryker. For now the Fairy-type leader said nothing, not bothering to add to the rain of questions the chairman was receiving. The scowl on Nordrin's face deepened. More than two years with the kid as reigning champ, and nothing like this had happened before... and that it happened [i]now[/i] couldn't have been a coincidence. Troubling indeed, especially for Ryker. 

As Hyacinth answered the questions he was posed, Nordrin spoke up. 

[color=B0C4DE]"Was a bit hasty of you to cancel publicly like that,"[/color] He commented. [color=B0C4DE]"You stirred up the whole bloody region. Can't exactly have a championship without a champion eh, I get it, but you're goin' to be dealing with a lot of damage control. [i]That[/i] you can leave me out of."[/color]

Any reporter or journalist that tried to stop him for some insight on what was going on with the league was going to get chewed out, that was for damn sure. He'd leave it to the league's publicity staff. As far as the actual plan for finding their missing champion in the mean time? That he wouldn't mind helping out with. It would be better than doing nothing and waiting around with his thumb up his ass anyway.