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Camphor's Lab[/sub][/right]

Despite what it might've looked like, [i]Chloe [/i]was, in fact, not late.

What [i]had [/i]been late was her ride from the docks to the laboratory. And to top it all off, the old man had the audacity to claim it was [i]her [/i]fault for wanting to stop just a couple of times to snap pictures of the sights. Like? What, was she just supposed to ignore everything pretty they passed because he couldn't hit the gas properly? Like just drive faster then! 

And none of that would have even happened if the assistant that was supposed to come pick them up from the docks hadn't [i]also [/i]been late. So late, in fact, that they never showed up! Chloe had waited for what felt like a fair amount of time, gotten bored, and headed to the tour the nearby shops — only to return an hour later with still no sign of any assistants, meaning she'd had to take a cab that turned out to belong to like [i]the slowest driver ever.[/i]

[i]Ugh! [/i]

Well, whatever, she was here now.

Chloe adjusted her handbag strap, careful not to wake up Snuggles dozing off inside. The fairy type's head was poking out, drool dripping as she dreamed of what Chloe assumed to be treats and comfy pillows — but might have just as well been murder.

Not wanting the sounds of battle to agitate the Snubbull, Chloe gave the battling trainers outside a wide berth as she made for the laboratory's door. It wasn't locked, so when a few rounds of knocks yielded no results, she strode right on in.

And found the place empty.

[i]Seriously?[/i] They hadn't waited for her or anything? 

[color=f49ac2]"Uh, hello?"[/color] she called out into the lab. When no answer came, she brazenly made her way past the reception desk and through the open doors, looking around for... [i]anything[/i]. The professor, mostly, though she wouldn't mind greeting a cute Pokémon or two either.[color=f49ac2] "Anyone in here? It's Rothschild! As in, [i]Chloe? [/i]Like one of the people you were going to hire?"[/color][/color]