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I wasn’t expecting us to be sent back to the desert so soon after the incident at the Underground Lake… Even if we’ve been moving in a different direction, it feels strange. In my mind, I can see us following the same paths we took before. I still taste the sand from after we fell through the earth. I can still feel the wounds on my body from our fight with Mesprit and a frustrating sting in my chest from our defeat from Grovyle… Ri and I have been training heavily since that loss, so maybe that’s why Wigglytuff sent us out on a mission: To force us to think of anything else. It’s impossible though, especially out here. We’ve done what we can to relax some, sure—but how can we, knowing when the world is at stake and another Time Gear was swiped away right out from under us? “I think I found it,” Ri exclaims just ahead of me. I’ve been so deep in thought that I’ve managed to fall several steps behind him, and I pick up the pace now to race over to his side. He stands over a