OOC: Sakura16, why the heck would someone throw away a Dratini? Those things are insanely rare, and even if one lost a battle, no trainer would be stupid enough to throw it away, or even be careless enough with it that they would be able to do something like throw it away.
“…And he would always lick my hand to wake me up in the morning…” wept a woman in her mid-twenties, draped in black clothing. She stared down at the grave of a Growlithe, the stone reading ‘Growler- beloved friend and part of the Geller household’. Sui nodded in understanding, placing a hand on the woman’s shoulder, which shook with her sobs.
“It’s okay, Mrs. Geller; he’s okay now. Growler is in a happy place; I’m sure it isn’t as happy as your home -he must have had a wonderful life there- but he will be happy, now. You need not grieve, for death is only the Beginning…” Sui said comfortingly, her voice trailing off as she thought about mystical things only the Legendary Mew knew.
The mourning woman didn’t seem to hear the last bit, but she sniffed and smiled bravely, lifting her head. “Thank you, deary, you’ve been a great comfort…I must be going, now. Good-bye, Sui, and I thank you for all the support…” Mrs. Geller said, bowing her head in thanks as she left the Tower, a tissue clinging to her tear-soaked face.
Sui watched her go, her eyes large and full of sadness. She knew Mrs. Geller would be fine- time heals all wounds, after all. She looked back at the Growlithe’s grave, thinking about how much the little pup must have meant to the woman. She shifted her gaze to the tomb next to it, in which lay the Absol of some other trainer. She looked behind it at the grave of an Espeon, and its Vaporeon sister next to it…her eyes roved around the graves; each a soul that once walked the Earth in sun and rain, in happiness and sadness, in health and in sickness, each one of her children, each to be forgotten some day…
Sui tore her gaze away from the sight, shaking her head sadly. The young girl sighed. “And how many will go down against their own will…?” she muttered as she turned and left. Sometimes, she couldn’t bear to see so many of her children like this…
“Something on your mind, Sui?”
Sui looked up from the spaghetti on her plate and twirled onto the fork in her hand into the kind, elderly face of Mr. Fuji at the other end of the dinner table.
The two had dinner together most every night, almost always accompanied by a few other people; other volunteers, mourners and people just stopping by Lavender Town for a visit with nowhere else to go, which was quite often, as the Pokémon Center wasn’t big enough to house more than ten people at once, despite the free hotel-like services they offered. Tonight, however, only two people sat at the table that could hold about fifteen.
“I dunno, Mr. Fuji…something’s just been on my mind lately, and I can’t shrug off the feeling that something’s coming.” she answered slowly, trying to pick the appropriate words. She felt like Tony from that play, West Side Story, except that she didn’t break into song like he did. Not usually, anyway. But like the teenage lover, she felt something was going to happen, something big, and it got nearer every day. Sui looked back down at her meal- the pasta had slipped off her fork back onto the plate, landing in the dark red sauce with a squishy plop. She began twirling some more spaghetti onto the utensil, not looking back up at the inquisitive look she was being given.
The old man nodded thoughtfully after a moment. “Ah, I see.” He paused, eyes turning upward at the ceiling of the little house. “Well, I have the feeling you won’t have to wait long.”
Sui’s head snapped back up as she looked back at Mr. Fuji, shocked. The old man, however, acted as if he had said nothing, and had gone back to eating his dinner.