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Ash stretched his back out, the long meetings having taken their toll on him. From Jessie once again trying to repaint the castle to dealing with the damage caused by Clemont’s experiments, it had been a long night, even for a vampire. Looking out the window, he saw the moon beginning to sink in the sky. “Probably got a few hours before sunrise. Might as well do some reading before the sun rises.” Making his way to the library, he was surprised to find that he was not alone. There sat May, surrounded by books. She was just as surprised to see. “May? I thought you would be asleep by now?” May shrugged, regaining her composure. “I’m a thief, I’m used to being up most of the night.I don’t really know anyone on the night staff though, so I thought I’d get some reading in.” Ash nodded, and picked up a book as well. “Makes sense. Thought I’d unwind a little before the sun comes up.” “Rough night?” “Ugh, Jessie went on and on about “brightening up the castle”, like she hasn’t given me the

At first, Evals wasn’t so worried about the kind of work she’d be put through when Jay and Tiva declared home improvements for this place – “Outer Dos” or whatever. That weird smell that made her think there was some kind of rotting food she had never smelled or tasted before was more likely to wear her down before any kind of muscle work did. That was then, though. The kind of stuff she was being put through right now had gotten her reconsidering pretty fast. “MȦ̶̧̨̨̢̬̹͕̦͍̫̜͓̮͊́͑̕͜I̴̯͖̗̍͒̆̀̒͋̄̎̓͛̊̈́̑͛͒͝N̸͙̭̦͓̯̹̝̣̒̀͆̒͘͘̚T̷̢͔̰̪̮͈͉̓͆̌̅̿͌Ả̵̯̂̅͒̏̋̌̾̓̾̎̊̚͠I̷̧̢͎̗̜̳̼͙̮̼͔̠̱͒͜͠N BALANCE. SEC̸͓̟͔̐̑ͅÛ̸̡͖̖̤̳͉̪͉̭͇͙̰̽̀̏͠ͅR̵̰̠̣̳̙̪̠͒͂̈́͊͗͒͗͛̍̈́̿̚̚͜ING NAILS NO̸̻̻̤̺̒͋̈́̆̐͆̈͐́͒̀̄̒͊͜͠͠W̸̧̱̪̻̿͒̅̃̓͆̇̈́̃̽̓̄̀̃͘͠.” Sen started pounding at the hooks where the top of the new door Evals got told to haul over to the old fogey’s house met with the legs – or the “arch”, according to what Sen was calling it. Evals was taking on a lot more weight than she was used to carrying, and having to stand with her arms over her head – and trying not to cut into the metal on top of it all – was HARD. Twerp was helping a little, though with his wings

“I smell something about this place,” Jaina had said when Gordie was still ferrying them through the narrow openings between tons of waterlogged metal and trash. The smell then was making Berry wince and cover her nose. “You mean the trash?” she asked. “Uh. I guess yeah, but it’s… something else. Something wild.” Jaina hadn’t seemed excited when she said that. She seemed suspicious, as though there were something about the outskirts of the village that she didn’t like. Berry couldn’t place what was bothering her then. And she didn’t have the faintest idea now, either. She was more concerned with the task at hand; how difficult it was to get any response from the Pokémon of Dos Village that was more than suspicious dismissal. “If you need help with somethin’, you can talk to the Admirals. I got no business with you.” The Makuhita slammed the door to her home shut before Berry could explain any further. She groaned quietly – this was the third time that Team Tinker had been