[color=D1D0CE]Her pawsteps burned against the cobblestone. Her ribs rattled with the rapid thrumming of her heart, the blood that it pumped through her body roaring in her ears like the vicious screech of a feral Pokemon. Lumi ground her teeth together as she made her way down Sunspear’s Main Street. Of course Sora was still around. What was she even supposed to do? If she was smart, she’d just leave Rieka, Enya, and Marlow behind and head off elsewhere. They would do well with Cash and the rest of them. Meanwhile, she was small enough to not garner too much attention on her way back to Fishertown. That was, if she was lucky…

A familiar voice from behind her made her nearly leap out of her fur. Whirling around, she came to be face-to-face with her remaining brother. A storm of words threatened to spill out of her maw in response, though she swallowed them. No. Now wasn’t the time to argue. Too many Pokemon would see and they would get too much attention. Her amber eyes darted to one corner of the square, then to the other. The citizens of Sunspear seemed to be very entertained with their own endeavors. They smiled, laughed, and chatted with one another. Despite everything, it felt like the world was about to collapse on top of her and she was going to be crushed under the rubble. And no matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t bring herself to look directly at her brother. At her very own flesh and blood.

[color=CD7F32][b]”I haven’t heard anything from Sable for a long time,”[/b][/color] she admitted. That wasn’t a lie. Sable hadn’t even tried to reach out to her, though she guessed that was her fault as well. It wouldn’t have taken long to have sent a bird to check up on her eldest sister. [color=CD7F32][b]”I can only guess that Fawn’s doing great studying in Twilight City.”[/b][/color]

Her paw scuffed the pathway. She wanted to sink her claws into the stone and scream at Sora. Screech at him, ask him why he was pretending things were so normal. All she did was blink up at him in a somewhat disinterested glance in turn. [color=CD7F32][b]”How have you been?”[/b][/color][/color]