31st Transformation [text/action]

[exeggutorhead]

[Text]

I've got nanao's riolu, she's gone.

[This hasty text is all anyone's going to hear from Envy over the 'Gear until much later in the evening. He already saw that Tulio had said something to the network, so he doesn't feel the need to elaborate. That and he's not really feeling like talking to anyone; he almost doesn't even bring the 'Gear with him when he leaves her house and heads out to the forest that lines Route 34, and it's only habit that has him slip it into his coat pocket.]

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[With all the disappearances and almost everyone around him losing people, Envy had been growing increasingly paranoid that someone he knew would vanish too. And now someone had. He just hadn't ever expected it to be her. Nanao had seemed permanent, somehow; maybe it was that she had a house, maybe it was the promise she'd made to him, but after finding her bed at the Center empty, her number disconnected, and a Pokeball and a letter (he hadn't read it yet, he didn't want to) meant for him…

It had been stupid of him to think there was anyone that couldn't vanish.

Envy's well into the trees before he finally stops in front of one particularly tall one. He stares up at it, still half in a daze of disbelief, before his face twists into a snarl. Envy never has dealt with loss very well, much less the loss of someone he actually considered family.

With a wordless shout, Envy starts laying into the tree with his fists as though it had personally taken her away. He's lucky he's wearing gloves, or the bark would have cut into his fingers; as it is, he's doing significant damage to the gloves. He doesn't care, he just wants to take this out on something, anything, so that he doesn't have to think about it. He wants his strength back so that he could knock the whole tree down and move on to the next one, and that he can't even make a dent in the wood just frustrates him more. He'd tear the whole forest down if he could. But all he can do in this place is try his damnedest to break his hands. He'll stop eventually, when he doesn't have a choice anymore, but to hell with rational thoughts about how this coping tactic doesn't work so well when he's human.]

Comments

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[francia]

[France had found out about Nanao's disappearance from Tulio, so he isn't surprised by the content of Envy's post. He does, however, want to talk to Envy in person: partly because he rationally knows Envy was also close to Nanao, and partly because he irrationally wants to make sure Envy is still here.]

Where are you? I want to see you.

[audio, later]

[greatbigrock]

<sub>[He doesn't respond to Envy's message for probably obvious reasons, but he does a few hours later, just because he really really needs to keep tabs on him, needs to make sure.]

[The uncertainty in his voice this time isn't like his usual, sort-of-awkward-how-do-I-people, but a genuine fear of not getting a response.]</sub>

... where the hell are you?

[audio]

[trailweblaze]

<sub>[If the hesitant pause before he speaks doesn't give him away, his voice certainly should. Miguel is very worried.]

I.. I have her Gyarados...

Where are you?</sub>