Shadow Pokemon. Certainly nothing Marie had heard about in Kalos. Judging by what others had said up to this point it wasn't anything that could be good. Purification was probably just as it sounded, taking the impurities out of the Pokemon and purging it. The bigger question on Marie's mind was,'What impurities?' She thought the answer would come later anyway. Phenac City held no real idea for her to know of these so called Shadow Pokemon. The place was peaceful enough. Sure it was in the middle of the desert but the city was a nice little bit of an oasis. The people there apparently seemed to put it behind them for some reason or another.

Still they were at the Pokemon HQ Lab now. What was her reasoning to be here now? Marie's father wanted her to see if they were hiring a researcher but judging by the looks of the place she guessed not. Speaking of the Lab Researchers, they seemed to be a little stressed in some way or another. Ralts slightly wiggling around in her arms gave her a mostly positive idea that there were negative feelings, or maybe she was tired and hungry. Sometimes it was hard to read with the emotional ticks that the Ralts family has. Marie was use to the life of a researcher because of her father anyway. Back in Kalos when her father was working on something he seemed stressed all the time. 

"I wonder what could be making them stressed." She mentioned to herself. Ralts looked up to her questioningly from the comment. "It's nothing, Ralts. Nothing at all." Although altogether unpleased with the answer she received Ralts relaxed back into Marie's arms as the girl moved to follow behind Michael after the other girl's words of agility and whatnot. Marie didn't care all to much. If she were in a hurry to get through the place originally there would probably be not visit from her in the first place but she decide not to vocalize it again as she had already stirred a noticeable notion of trouble on Michael's face earlier.

There was something to look forward to at least. Both Marie and Ralts had decided that they wanted a new friend to join their team and looking at the Pokemon here would help give an idea about what a good addition to the team would be. Of course there would be no taking from the lab, but it at least gave a good idea of what Pokemon were in the region. "I'm looking forward to this. How about you Ralts?" Marie spoke happily to which Ralts lightly replied, "Rrraa."