[center][color=indianred][h3]Shanae Eller[/h3][/color]
Central City Outskirts[/center]
Seven pairs of eyes—again, discounting Alcedo’s three extra pairs—stared up at the night sky that was speckled with bright white spots of starlight, lost in nostalgia. Although Shanae couldn’t say for sure what each of her Pokemon were thinking, she herself was lost in thought, reminiscing about days passed long ago.


[i][color=indianred]”Mom, Dad, I’m off!”[/color] barely-eighteen-year-old Leisy said, waving to her parents as she ran out the door. The adrenaline that came with her new trinkets—a shiny new standard-edition red Pokedex and a glossy new classic red-and-white Pokeball—carried her all the way to the fringes of her hometown and beyond, taking her through the forest and into the caves that bordered the valley of her hometown.[/i] 


Shanae had run farther than she’d ever thought she could that first day, and she’d also met the stiffest and proudest Pokemon she’d ever meet—a puppy-sized Houndour that would one day go by ‘Ebon.’ Giving Amatorius a heartfelt squeeze that caused him to look up at her with confused eyes, Shanae smiled.