[center][h3][color=ffff33]AMBER KREE[/color][/h3][i][New Amber Town - Pokemon Center][/i]
[@Ninian][@Zardoric][@Experiment 249][@Light Lord][/center]
Amber watched the crowd carefully. The Dragonite's owner had remained bubbly and energetic throughout the whole ordeal, although she doubted she could say the same for most of the other trainers surrounding them. She wasn't sure if it was simply a misunderstanding of sorts, but it seemed as though some form of hostility had arisen amongst some of the others. She would have no involvement in that matter, not unless it grew into something physical. Even then, she mused, perhaps it would be the trainers' Pokemon resolving their differences. She still didn't understand it, but she was willing to accept their methods.

[color=ffff33]”Aster is female,”[/color] she stated in reply to the girl's excited questioning although she doubted the girl would have heard her much over the buzzing of the crowd. Pursing her lips, Amber stepped away and looked towards the two that had given her advice.

The first that had spoken up was the man the young girl was originally with. Another had long black hair – named Leopold, if she heard correctly – and told her pretty much what the first did. It was nothing she hadn't heard from others before. Trust your Pokemon. Strengthen your bond with them. Believe in them. It wasn't like she hadn't tried to do during her first days with Aster; she simply had trouble understanding how she would do such a thing. It wasn't like Aster hatched with a manual that she could read and memorize. No, they had plopped the little green thing down Amber's lap and told them to bond by battling some other wild things in the forest. She gave them a small smile in thanks, but wondered just how she would go about following their advice.

She glanced down at the Snivy in her arms. The little fella seemed to have calmed down considerably and now chose to observe the group of people around them. Aster seemed to have taken a suspicious glare at the new trainer and the silent boy that trailed behind him, and began to watch them intently as they approached the Dragonite. In fact, should anyone that had known Amber before look, the face Aster was making oddly resembled her trainer's usual facial expression.

Amber's instincts told her that there was something odd about the silent one. Though, considering the variety of people surrounding them, she decided to simply file it away as the weird feeling she often got when around trainers. He still hadn't done anything she would see as threatening so for now, she would not confront him.

Her eyes turned to the sky. How long had they wasted standing around and chatting? Amber usually wasn't one to let time pass without doing anything, but she had a feeling that continuing to be around such boisterous trainers would change that. A sigh escaped her lips. Perhaps she would need to take the initiative. She turned to the young girl – Celes – and her Dragonite, the two that had given her advice, and the new trainer that approached them. 

She cleared her throat to grab their attention. [color=ffff33]”I hate to interrupt,”[/color] she really didn't since she wanted nothing more than to actually get some semblance of work done, hard as it may be. [color=ffff33]”But I was told that acquiring something called a Pokedex would be useful.”[/color] In hindsight, she should have gone to the laboratory first instead of the Pokecenter, but what's done was done. 

She left the unspoken invitation to head to the laboratory with her in the air, giving what friendly smile she could muster.