I look around at the group of people. "Is everyone here?" I ask. There were several pokemon. Pawniards, a lucario, a raichu, a froslass, and a timburr... [i] ugh, I'll never be able to look at that species in the same way ever again...[/i] I think as I look around. "Starting bid for the berry smashing device is 350 Poke!" I say to the crowd. Someone raises there hand and I call out "350 from the... Lucario!" and I ask "400, 400 anyone?" and the Froslass raises her hand. "400 from the Froslass!" and continue raising until I reach 750, then no one but the 2nd Pawniard wanted it. "Going once, twice, sold!" I yell out, and I take the 750, and give him the device. I look in my backpack and take out a box with more of the clear material on a small side of it. I flip open something on the side and say "It's... uh... um... a box! What does it do? It... lets you see things that are far away with this side thingy here!" and I call out for 100. One person raises there hand, so I raise it to 150, and the Lucario raises its hand. and I call out 200, no one wanted it at that time. "Going once, twice, and... sold!" I say again and I hobble over to him and take the 150 and give him the 'advanced telescope'. I take out a small dinky little thing with something weird and wiry inside of it. I look at this and fiddle with it, and say "Find out what this does, I dunno." I call out "100, anyone?" and the Raichu raises his hand. No one wanted it other than him and he won the auction. I toss it to him, and he gives me 100 Poke.

 I shrug and think "Might as well go edit my note to fit a better price. I don't need anything right now, other than something to fix my leg. I get off the crate, put all the Poke in my backpack and hop back to the guild and edit my note. I think about how much I had and reset the reward to 1000 Poke. I didn't need to throw away all of my money, whether I had it before or after the auction. I leave the building, and head over to the station. I hand my boss all my papers, and he sees the hasty writing and the giant jagged line one one paper and shakes his head. "We can't accept this!" He says. I sigh, and say "I nearly got killed," and he replies with "You agreed to get the case." I ask "Are there any other cases at all?" and he says "No. All the others are already taken. We could assign you a partner to help you with the case, but it will take... a while. Maybe by the time it's finished, we'd have one ready. Sorry." I look at him through squinted eyes and almost utter the words 'I quit,' but I didn't I only said "I-i-i-iii..." and he asks "You what, Mr. Lennard?" and I cover my mouth and say "Nothing, sir," and I bolt out of his office and out the door of the station. I sit on the steps and shake from the thought of being homeless, or jobless.