At least your father cared for you, wanted you... Emerl thought bitterly, but surpressed this line, not wanting to insult or downplay Nire's suffering, "I'm sorry about your father" he said "And I can understand that you don't trust me enough to tell more as of yet. But to answer your question. I have felt like that for as long as I can remember, you see...My parents, my whole family, abandoned me. Why, I do not know, I am not even sure about the when, those memories have always eluded me. But from what I gather they went to great lengths to erase their tracks." he shook his head "The only childhood I can remember is the one at Stonewall orphanage, a rund-down establishment now shut down for child abuse. I will not bother you with the gruesome details of my upbringing, suffice to say that the rules were basically 'survival of the fittest'. I fled that place as soon as I was old enough to survive on my own...well, not really on my own." he confessed, allowing himself a faint smile towards the Blaziken beside him "I had Blaziken to help me, although he was just a Torchic at the time. Neither one of us would probably had made it on our own."
