Mere Velleity {Oneshot}

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    Mere Velleity

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    A small green-yellow Pokemon, known as Caterpie, slowly crawled along its way across the road. At the same time, the Caterpie unintentionally drew the attention of a group of traveling Pokemon trainers. A young boy with black hair, who seemed to be the leader of the group with a determined expression, jumped with excitement in front of the group, placing the gaze of his dark colored eyes at the little bug Pokemon. He snapped his fingers, and twisted his red cap around as he exclaimed the predictable.

    ?Ha! A Caterpie! I haven?t captured one of those in a long time!? At this time, a girl who seemed to be younger than the boy stepped forward and bent down to examine the little Pokemon. It was oblivious to the group of people around it until the girl lightly poked its pink feelers on its forehead with her gloved finger. At this time, a young man with spiky brown hair bursted into a small laughter.

    ?You touched the Caterpie! That?s certainly the complete opposite of someone we used to travel with isn?t it?? exclaimed the young man to the group leader. The two of them laughed along with each other as the girl and her little brother stood still in confusion.

    What is wrong with that...? It's just a Pokemon...

    ?If Kasumi is still around, I?m sure that she would have kicked the poor Caterpie off a cliff!?

    Kasumi...!

    <><><>

    The group settled down into a Pokemon center for dinner and the night. Much to the girl?s dismay, she had to sit with her bratty brother Masato. She wished that she could just shove her brother away and throw him out somewhere! Where she would throw him away to, she cared not, for she only wanted to have a short cheerful moment sitting beside the young soon-to-be Pokemon master. Though he would probably be ignorant of her presence beside him as he chowed down anything edible in front of him, she would feel blessed for the day already? As long as she can be with him, right by his side?

    Oh just how could she bother to eat when she?s straight across from him! She placed her eyes on the boy whom she loved so much? His dark eyes were always shimmering with determination. He had always worked hard towards his goal to be a Pokemon master. He had never once doubted himself despite of the difficulties ahead of him. He might be a dreamer, but he had strived towards his dream, unlike all the others who shoved their goals in life aside as they grow older, just to live a stable yet boring life.

    ?Hello??

    He was different from them all. His altitude towards anything had always been so optimistic, even if they were in the toughest of times; he would encourage the group to keep going. If he were losing a Pokemon battle, he would always find a way to come through and win the battle in a miraculous comeback. Oh, and, and?!

    ?Hey, are you still here???

    He is just the perfect guy...

    ?Sister! Are you even listening!?

    The girl instantly snapped back to reality and ended her daydream, as she realized that she just spilled a bottle of soy sauce all over herself. The sauce stained her dark colored tight shorts, and it was making her shorts all yucky. Takeshi and Satoshi both laughed out loud, thinking that she was just a clumsy girl. Her brother Masato just closed his eyes and sighed.

    That little brat is probably wondering ?oh just how come my sister is so dumb?? one day I?ll show him!

    However, now was not the good time to thrash her little brother, because on top of all, he was watching. Quickly, she put on a nervous laughter and went along with the crowd. Satoshi finally stopped laughing at her (much to her relief), and came to a realization.

    ?You know Takeshi? if Kasumi did that, she would have scolded at all of us as loud as she possibly can!?

    Kasumi!

    <><><>

    Later at night she changed out of her dirty clothes, along with her red bandana which kept her shoulder-length light-brown hair that was pulled into a bunch on either side of her head in place. She didn?t see Masato or Takeshi around the Pokemon center though when she walked into the dimly lighted lounge. Nurse Joy didn?t seem to be at the front desk anymore either. Perhaps she went off to work with the injured Pokemon in the backroom. Oh and what a gift from Ho-oh! There was Satoshi sitting on one of the couches, alone in the lounge with no one else but herself! He was here, all for her! Excitement filled her young heart at that moment. Finally she might get to spend some time with Satoshi, alone! A sincere smile bloomed on her face. This small event would possibly be the highlight of the entire day for the lonely girl? Now, Satoshi was slowly approaching her, giving her a quick greeting.

    ?Hey, thought you were asleep.?

    ?Oh no? I was went in to change? where did Takeshi and Masato go??

    ?Oh? they just went to the Pokemart to grab some potions and antidotes before curfew.?

    Excellent! There is no better time for the two of you to go to the Pokemart!

    ?Isn?t it a bit dangerous to travel to the Pokemart so late at night?? I hope Masato will be ok??

    ?Oh? you certainly care about your brother a lot, don?t ya??

    Who cares about him...? He just gets in the way between the two of us... All I care about is you... can't you feel it?

    ?Well? it?s my duty as a sister to take care of my little brother!?

    ?I guess that deep at heart the two of you really care for each other? even though you two always fight with each other??




    Well... maybe?

    ?It really reminds me of Kasumi? We fought with each other a lot as well, back then before you and Masato joined us in the journey. She?s a really great friend.?

    Kasumi?! Oh Satoshi? why does everything have to be about Kasumi? Don?t you care about me?? Why do you seem so cold, so uncaring about me? What about me who is right in front of you?

    ?You really care for her, don?t you Satoshi??

    ?Well of course! She?s my best friend in my life??


    She is also the worst enemy in my life...

    ?I can imagine Satoshi? she must be a really nice girl.?

    ?I wish that I can just see her again? too bad she has to go back to Cerulean City.?

    Just let her stay right there... Stay right there... and don't ever come back.

    ?I?ll love to see her too? It?ll be nice to have another girl to talk to at times.? And there was the untimely return as Masato and Takeshi returned from the Pokemart. The group reunited and decided to sit down and plan on the next day. The young girl forced herself to attend the short discussion, even though she was feeling dejected from Satoshi?s multiple mentioning of ???. However, she could push herself no longer, and very soon she pardoned herself from the rest using the lame excuse of not feeling very well due to a stomachache.

    But then again, the ?not feeling well? part wasn?t a total lie?

    <><><>

    The young girl retreated into a room within the Pokemon center, which she was supposed to stay in for the night. She looked out the window, and saw that the silver moon was blinded by the clouds of the night. She sighed? Oh just how unfair! Everything was going against her! Even the clouds were taking the moon away from her. Everything was gaining up on her, stealing everything they possibly could from her! Forlornness clouded the girl?s mind, as she sat on her bed beside the window. The bed wasn?t comfortable at all. It was only a wooden board wrapped with bed sheets. However, the girl didn?t complain about beds like this did not belong to a Pokemon center but a rathole, not tonight. Tonight, she had more important stuff at mind?

    Kasumi Kasumi Kasumi? just why did everything have to relate to this tomboy in dearest Satoshi?s mind? What could possibly be so charming about a hotheaded girl who battered poor Satoshi in the face with her mallet all day long? Why would Satoshi possibly fall for a girl like this, if one could even consider her as a girl at all! She had heard of many things about this Kasumi in Satoshi?s previous travel, and none of those experiences seemed pleasurable to the young girl. Those past events were certainly different, unlike the enjoyable and pleasurable journeys they are having now in Hoenn, with her.

    What could possibly be so charming about this Kasumi? Seriously? I am younger. I am prettier, and I am more caring than her! I am the one who cheers Satoshi on every match, not a scrawny loudmouth who scolds at poor Satoshi for being stupid every match. How can anyone possibly fall for her with this unwelcoming attitude? Oh, I mean? just look at her! She?s abusive, and she has such a poor sense of fashion? For Ho-oh?s sake, she?s supposed to be a girl? It is just a yellow shirt and a boring pair of blue jeans?only until recently did she finally decide to change her sense of fashion, and it?s? ugh? still terrible. Who in the right mind will dress up all yellow like that? It?s as if she is a Dunsparce! It is hardly appealing, even for a Muk.

    Is it just because she is a gym leader of Kanto? Is that why? Or is it because her Pokemon are a lot stronger than mine? Oh just give me time Satoshi! I can train my Pokemon to be just as good as hers too! Just give me some time. Give me a chance!

    Perhaps it?s just the ?first strike? advantage? Satoshi, answer me! You love her more than me, only because you know her before me? Is that why? Is that why!

    The little girl lie down and covered her face to her white pillow, shutting her cobalt blue eyes as she quietly wept for herself. The night sky pitied her, and the clouds soon parted ways, allowing the moonlight to shine upon the girl and lightly patted her on the head to comfort her from her grief. However, it seemed that her friends showed no sympathy for her sorrow, as the sounds of their laughter could be heard. It was faint, but they were all laughing, having a great time among themselves? they?re probably just mocking her stupidity. They were mocking her distant dream of being able to just cuddle against him in his cradle? one distant dream that she could never accomplish, as long as there was that miserable Kasumi standing in her way! If only that Kanto girl would just give way and let her have him!

    Sigh? that won?t work? even if she was gone from the picture, Satoshi?s heart would still be with her? No no no? that won?t work. Does this means that I?m destined to be alone in Hoenn, while Satoshi is back in Kanto with his girl??

    No! She had to stop thinking like this. All of these pessimistic thoughts were not going to help her. She needed some more practical ideas. Yes, that was definitely what the poor girl needed? But just what could she do when she was in a losing war against someone who wasn?t even present! How foolish of her! How stupid of her! To be losing Satoshi to someone who wasn?t even beside him?

    You got nothing, girl... Nothing!

    She had nothing if she lost Satoshi, as well? She never had too much friends. If she had friends back home in Petalburg, why would she want to leave them to go on a Pokemon journey? Her parents never loved her? The world to them was nothing but Masato, and only him. Even before the legitimate age to be a Pokemon trainer, her father tried to give him his first Pokemon ? a Slakoth, to be his first Pokemon. It wasn?t to Masato?s likings, but it was enough of a proof that her father cared for Masato much more than her. Was she ever presented with such an opportunity? Never! And just how old was Masato? Was he 10 already? Certainly not, yet her father allowed him to travel throughout Hoenn already. Was she permitted to go on such a journey when she requested at an earlier age? No? Did her brother love her? Ha! What a foolish question? just the amount of fights they got themselves into was most evident answer to this stupid question?

    I got nothing... My family doesn't love me... I got no friends... I got no love...

    I am nothing?

    Satoshi? little did he know that a little girl in Hoenn had placed all of her hope, and her life, on him, this one boy who was on his way to be a Pokemon master. He was her love; He was her dream; He was her last hope? Yet once again dear Ho-oh decided to toy with her life! The high deities of the above just had to stick in that Kasumi in her life, just to make her miserable! Now Satoshi won?t ever be with her, and it is all because of this one girl! Sigh? Oh well, there was nothing she could do to avoid this. There was nothing she could do to make Satoshi turn back to her, unless!

    Unless I am just like Kasumi...

    What a bizarre thought, as if that would ever happen. How could it be possible that she would be just like Kasumi? Was it to dress in her fashion, or to act in her ugly tomboyish manners? Regardless of what she could do, she would never be Kasumi?

    You, you are a fool...

    After a whole night of debating against herself only to come up with such a displeasing and painful conclusion of truth, she wept to herself again, and slowly drifted off to an uneasy sleep when she used up all of her energy for the endless streams of tears on her face?

    <><><>

    Far away from the Pokemon center?

    Far away from the skies of Hoenn?

    Far, far away! Into the night sky, between the stars and the heavens, the Pokemon woke up from its short nap. It wasn?t really short, as it lasted a couple of months. Then again, it was only a couple of months. How long was a month, for an ageless, immortal being? It didn?t know why it woke up, as it was still many hundreds of years away until it was the next millennium, the time when it was suppose to wake up again. It was as if someone was calling out to it? The Pokemon fluttered around, and played tag with the stars for a short while, before it drifted off to a stop, continuing to try to figure out just what woke it up?

    Then it hit it? it understood why it woke up from its year old slumber.

    An old friend?

    An old friend was calling it. An old friend was calling upon its name, in a futile attempt to a desperate moment. A heart filled with grief had been trying hard to reach out to it. But the power of this old friend was weak? it could barely feel it. Yet in the same time, it was strong?

    It was a mere velleity, yet it was strong?

    It was stronger than all of the other foolish dreams of winning lotteries, or acing the next exam in the Pokemon academy. It was a weak call, yet its pureness was beyond comparison. The desire for the velleity to be true was very powerful, stronger than all of the other selfish dreams! Just hang on young one! Hang on!

    Well, well! How could it possibly turn down a request of an old friend?

    <><><>

    The silvery moon was high as it flew across the night? Its silvery tags on its head bounced along gently. It gracefully skimmed across the star ocean, as everyone, Pokemon and humans alike, fell into a deep slumber. Even the creatures of the night stopped their hoots and ended their howls, and drifted asleep?

    For this night, was pure and peaceful?
     
    The young girl woke up from her bed in the Pokemon center. Her tears had dried off, and she felt miserable just like yesterday night. But, she had to get ready for another day of adventure. This was no time for her to dwell in her sadness? maybe tonight?

    She stood up and stretched, in order to get ready for the morning, yet every part of her body ached terribly, especially her back. She quickly sat back down on the bed because of her pain. She got up again after a short rest, and trudged towards the washroom to do all necessary morning business, such as brushing her teeth, changing into her usual clothes and combing her hair. Now to finish off, she just had to get her red band? what? A bandana? Heh? it must be the morning taking its rolls on her again? she wasn?t thinking straight. Why would she want a bandana? Silly thoughts?

    She went back into the room, and packed everything that she would need for the day. She through everything into her small, red drawstring bag, and then she proceeded to ?!

    Red? drawstring bag? When did I buy one of that? Hmm I wonder where did my yellow waist bag go? But? when did I ever have a yellow waist bag? Did I have one of those? But how would that explain the drawstring bag right here?

    As the girl pondered about the strange happenings regarding her luggage, she heard footsteps outside of her door. The others were all up now, and were also getting ready for the day. She had to hurry or else she would be left behind!

    She rushed back into the washroom once again to do some final check to see if she was in her best shape to see her Satoshi for the day again. Yet on the way, she bumped right into another boy who was as old as her. She got knocked back on the floor, with her back in pain once again. She apologized to the boy whom she bumped into, and only now did she get a chance to take a careful look at his complexion. He was no ordinary kid who one could find in the streets of Hoenn everyday. His white hair was held back by a black headband, with a strange looking red-black outfit. She could never imagine that there would be someone with such a hideous sense of fashion. If this boy ever walked out in the streets back home in Kanto like this, he would be classified as an alien! Ha! Err? did she just say? Kanto?

    ?I?m sorry too, but I was in a hurry,? replied the boy, as he continued to chase a smaller boy in front of him. The smaller boy was much younger, with huge glasses that had thick lenses. He seemed impatient, as if he was waiting for that white haired boy. He looked very familiar? The girl scrubbed her eyes to better her vision, and finally she recognized the younger boy. Why of course! He was her b? hmm? what was the word? Traveling companion, that?s the word! Of course! He was a little annoying, but he was still a good traveling companion to have. What was his name?? Masato! That was it!

    ?C?mon Brandon! Hurry up!? called Masato to the white haired boy who ran towards him. When did Masato ever make such strange friends? In a distance, she saw Masato hitting himself in the face again, like always, and muttered under his breath.

    ?Oh just how come you, my brother, is so dumb?? exclaimed Masato, and instantly that boy called Brandon got into a small fight with him. Heh? boys arguing like that? how cu?!

    What!

    Brandon? Masato? Brothers?

    Where did that wild idea come from?

    The girl scrubbed her eyes again, to try to take away the illusion in front of him. How did she ever dream of a white haired boy called Brandon? However, it was no illusion? the boy known as Brandon continued to fight with the little boy, as Takeshi came out to try to break up the fight.

    What in Mew?s name is going on? Wasn?t Masato my brother? Oh dear Ho-oh, what is going on!

    Startled and confused, the girl rushed back into her room, and lie on her bed to try to catch her breath and calm herself down. She was going crazy? No? The world went crazy! Just who was Brandon? Who was Masato playing with? Who was Brandon?s brother? Who was her brother? So Brandon and Masato were siblings? Weren?t there a brother and a sister traveling in her group along with Satoshi and herself? Wasn?t that right? Oh, or perhaps it were two brothers traveling with her? yeah that sounded right. Or was it? Oh everything was just a mess! Can?t she remember anything right? What a poor memory she got?

    Then suddenly? a sudden revelation came down to the girl. There was one ultimate question that would end all question, even more important than the classical ?what came first? Blaziken or Blissey??This would be the final question? if she got this right, she would get everything straight. And the question?

    Who am I?

    She thought as long as she could, and dug through her memories of her life in her head.

    No answer was available.

    This could not be happening? she could not possibly forget her own name? How could this be possible! She might not be the most dependable person across the world, but she should be enough to remember her name! Just who am I! Who am I!

    Well girl, if you failed to figure out who you are? why don?t you try to think of your family?

    Family relatives? well for starters, there would be my brother Masato hmm? Err? brother? No that sounds ridiculous? sisters, yeah! That is more like it. Oh but that could not be! Masato! Masato is my brother! I can remember now? he went to the Pokemart with Takeshi last night! My brother, Masato! That was the ever so annoying and irritating little boy, Masato, brother of Brandon! The three so-called ?sensational? sisters of Cerulean, my sisters! What? Just who are my siblings?? Brother, or three sisters? Masato! Sensational Sisters! Masato! Sensational Sisters! Masato, and not the sensational sisters! It?s the sensational sisters, not Masato!

    No? no? not the sensational sisters. How could it be the sensational sisters? My father never had so many daughters. He just had two children, and only two. One of them is Masato, and the other is? Brandon!

    Who? are my parents? Caroline? Norman? Who are they?

    Endless streams of memorizes poured into her mind, and at the same time, bits and pieces of the past were flowing away? strange scenes of her life pasted before her, as she tried to sustain herself from the unimaginable confusion and pain she was going through in her head. She saw many strange things?

    She saw how there was this girl with a red bandana, dressed in red with symbols of the Hoenn Region all over it. She saw how this girl biked over the hills, heading towards New Bark Town trying to get her first Pokemon? This girl was on a cheerful journey? what journey? Was it a Pokemon journey? Well it was a cheerful journey of some sort until a grayish Pokemon spooked the girl out? what Pokemon? Wasn?t it a Duskull? Or maybe it?s a Banette? Oh wait that didn?t sound right? she couldn?t remember. Either way, whatever? object (was it a Pokemon?) spooked her out, it resulted in the girl crashing into a? a? something? She forgot.

    A sudden flash, and another scene was presented as the previous scene slipped away?

    There was another girl now, in a forest? but everything was kind of blurry? She couldn?t see clearly. That girl in yellow was sitting on the forest floor, with what seemed to be a? perhaps frightened expression? Couldn?t see? Either way, she extended her arm slowly, shaking as well? Ok so she was scared. She reached her hands to touch something pink. What it was, she couldn?t remember? Then suddenly, the object lifted up its head, and spitted a massive around of silk, wrapping its little green body. The tiny? Pokemon? wrapped itself completely in silk, and the silk quickly hardened, into a green armor? Caterpie (yeah so that was the object!) evolved into Metapod. She remembered it now?

    A sudden flash, and another scene was presented as it was added into her memory?

    It was back to the girl dressed in red, and she was talking about contest? some sort of a contest? forgot what it was. So this girl planned to go on some contest of some sort. She reached into her bag, and pulled out a Pokeball, and behold! Out came the Pokemon so beautiful! That girl always wanted one of those? it was a? err? Bea? Butterfree! It was something like that? either way, the girl was training with that Pokemon? err? something for some contest of some sort on some beach. That Pokemon was to? somehow bring back a discus when she threw it out. She threw it out, and that Pokemon?

    And she couldn?t remember for the life of her? did something like this really happen in her life? How funny? she couldn?t remember any of it anymore?

    A sudden flash, and another scene was presented as the previous scene slipped away?

    There was another girl before her eyes now? this girl was also riding a bike, but the scenery was different compare to the previous story of the other girl that she saw. It was as if she was in another region. She biked until she was beside this river, and came to a slow stop? she sat down and started fishing, trying out her first lure that she made herself: an absolutely astonishing lure that looked just like herself! She couldn?t wait to test it out. However, with disappointment, not even a Magikarp had fell for her lure? perhaps she was too charming for the water Pokemon to bite on. And then suddenly, something pulled on the hook! She wrestled with whatever was on the hook, and finally tossed it out of the water, and out came a boy holding a Pikachu!

    Yes? this is it? I remember?

    Oh but everything was so confusing! Couldn?t there be someone that she could remember? She couldn?t remember who were her family members. She couldn?t remember just who was Brandon. Who was Masato? Who were the Sensational Sisters? Oh Satoshi just what could the poor girl do?

    Satoshi?? Yes that was it! Satoshi! The only guy who she could remember perfectly! Satoshi would know everything. He would be her last hope, once again, just like always. He would be able to answer all of her questions in her mind! It was decided. Satoshi would be her savior.

    <><><>

    The girl rushed out of her room, and ran around the Pokemon center. She ignored the funny gaze off of anyone else. She pretended that she couldn?t hear Brandon and Masato calling her? She ran and ran, calling out to his name?

    ?Satoshi! Satoshi!?

    Just where could he be in this dire moment?? She was dying! Wasn?t he going to come out and save her? She kept running, as tears streamed down her face, and on to her yellow shirt and shorts of matching color. Only with Satoshi would this be over? His voice would rid of all of her confusion. She would trust his call more than herself? even if this were related to her identity.

    Oh Satoshi? tell me? who am I?

    And then around the corner stood the young trainer from Pallet Town, looking out at the scenery under the morning sky, his back facing the girl. Pikachu was standing on top of his shoulder like always. They were such close friends? perhaps one day she could be so close to him too? The boy noticed that someone was behind him finally. He turned around, and saw that it was his most beloved one? he opened his mouth, and words came out to greet his love?

    <><><>

    ?Hiya Kasumi? what are you doing??









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    Now before you even go further, to kill yourself if you failed to see who was the main character in the fanfic.

    First thanks to Kairi for no absolute reason! I got use to giving her the thanks for everything now? ;p

    Also, special thanks to Abskull! If it isn?t for the punch line (last sentence in the fanfic) in Abskull?s fanfic ?Life Being a Murkrow? I could not have possibly thought of this idea.

    Give thanks to Jedi Amara, who solved the mystery of ?just how to describe Haruka?s hairstyle?? Thank you for the excellent description she helped me with regarding this matter!

    This bizarre fanfic is written in dedication to:

    -Haruka, the poor girl who gets squashed in 7 out of 10 fanfic with her in it. How come fanfic writers always put Kasumi as the better of the two heroines?



    Please post reviews/comments directly in this thread, because this is oneshot anyway. ^^;


    Sorry if the format is all weird, because PC destroyed all of the formats I had on MSWord x_x;
     
    Nice very nice
    it was easy reading and was fun
    and to be honest thats important......
    there were one or two grammatical errors but this thing is so long i can't find them any more ^_^
    nice work and i hope u write some more ^_^

    also some sentences were a little repeatitive

    leader of the group with a determined expression, jumped with excitement in front of the group

    rephrase that - it sounds weird
    sorry if i'm nit picking ^_^

    anyway great work
    i'll score u high in just about all catagories
    ur lowest being originality but then again its still high
    i like the fact that u used the view point of May instead of Ash for a change

    also i like the love theme instead of the gotta ketchem all stuff..........

    sorry but i really like it so i'll say it again
    great work ^_^
     
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    Aww, thank you Ice Demon and Oni! ^^; Thank you for your time to read this long lengthy oneshot that lasts 2 posts XD *gives them all a cookie*

    Err... I should have mentioned who's who with the japanese names... Masato is Max; Satoshi is Ash and Takeshi is Brock (whose role is so minor that it won't matter at all not knowing who's Takeshi). Sorry for the inconvenience! ^^;;

    @ ice demon:

    Yeah that sentence you quoted there is indeed quite redundant... next time I'll watch out for that. Indeed it isn't the most original as it's a rather simple idea: Haruka will do all she can to replace Kasumi in Satoshi's heart, and only ended up in massive chaos and eventually became Kasumi herself. When I was writing this, I sorta got "challenged" by Dizzy a little.

    Dizzy claimed that every plot must be super complicated and etc to be a good fanfic, so I decided to take a small and simple idea and just keep expanding myself on it. ^^; Also, since I took characters from the anime, it saves me a lot of work in terms of characterization. I just let the anime handle all of it so I don't have to do it myself XD


    @ Oni Flygon
    -aww thanks again for sticking this up!

    Do you think that this fanfic is lagging a bit? I was a bit concerned about that, if this story was lagging... not sure if this fanfic was a bit longer than how long it should have been. o.o;
     
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