Arlene had barely scrounged up enough money to eat a meal with her three Pokemon that night. She did at times give them Pokemon food, but felt that they were people too - they could all talk, after all - and that they deserved real food once in a while instead of that slop. But now, completely broke, she would be running into the same problems again soon. Snake and herself had eaten sweet and sour chicken at a nearby restaurant, Jaydin had eaten normal Pokemon food, being the modest fellow that he was, and Fate had taken to Chop Suey.
As nightfall became apparent, Arlene had decided against sleeping outside this time around - not that she had chosen to do so in the first place - and instead snuck into a hotel room. It was criminal, yes, but it was a dire emergency, possibly life or death... Her dreams were filled with the same recurring voice... It was broken and waning in her head as she slept, so much so that she could not make sense at all of the speaker's words.
At about six in the morning, Arlene woke to Jaydin licking her face.
"Come on sleepyhead, time to get rolling!" he said with his usual quirky attitude and androgynous voice. That alone was enough to get Arlene out of bed - she was a light sleeper. She quickly dressed herself in what she'd worn the previous night, and checked her backpack, ensuring that she'd kept the collective leftovers from the previous night's outing. Satisfied that the styrofoam container was secure in her pack, the vixen calmly and flung out her long hair, letting it settle after a few moments back at it's place of nearly touching halfway down her thighs. She then signaled for the team of three to follow her out of the open window.
The extraction was very careful and noiseless; all were very agile and adept at sneaking around, which Arlene thanked the nonexistent Gods for.
"Whew... Alright, now what?" Arlene began, before picking up on someone, a female voice, calling out, 'Hey, hey you, Jay!' There was silence save for the girl's rapid footsteps, but eventually the name occurred to the vixen as that of the boy that she'd seen at the mountain range yesterday. She decided that maybe since they were still around, it was a hit-or-miss to form a travel party. Arlene then turned to her trusted trio of Pokemon.
"Hey guys, check it out. Miss Sunshine and that Jay guy are still hanging around - think we should go see what's up?" she asked.
"Sounds like a plan!" Snake said happily, glad to be in the presence of company after a good month or so of travelling alone with her partners. Jaydin and Fate merely nodded their heads in agreement, and the four headed towards the proclaimed "Miss Sunshine" and Jay. The few people that were awake at the time stared at Arlene and her group, both for the fact that she was a goddamn intelligent upright-walking animal, and for the fact that she normally refused to keep her Pokemon in their balls.
((OOC: Sorry for being somewhat short. I skipped out on alot of details for the sake of moving along in the story.))
