Searching Far and Wide

[intricate_engineer]

Glen was creating a prototype for a new gate design. It was meant to be affordable and provide quick transport between individual homes. She tests several objects and a rat and everything seems to be working.

She steps through. Instead of finding herself in the room next door, she finds herself standing on a sidewalk in an empty city. The buildings are tall and perfect, colorless with doorways far too tall for any human. The roads have no straight lines and twist in on themselves. There is no life or sound.
Glen tries to stay calm. She begins to walk along the road, randomly opening doors and exploring buildings that are as silent as the rest of the world.

She opens a door that she hopes will lead onto a roof and is instead met with warmth, and soft noise, and color.

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[the_very_best]

"Raaaa."

[intricate_engineer]

Glen lets Blink be and turns to see what the Zigzagoon is up to.

[the_very_best]

The Zigzagoon, having been ignored, is industriously digging a hole in the field.

[intricate_engineer]

Glen walks over to it and crouches down to look at the hole.

[the_very_best]

"Goon," says the Zigzagoon. The hole is about a foot deep now.

[intricate_engineer]

Glen is impressed.
"You need a name," she says.
"How about Rabbit? Since there is a noticeable lack of rabbits here."

[the_very_best]

"What do rabbits look like?" asks Bella, as the Zigzagoon demonstrates a total lack of opinion.

[intricate_engineer]

Glen pulls up a picture on her phone and shows it to Bella.
"Not similar at all, but they also dig a lot of holes."

[the_very_best]

"Huh, looks more like a Buneary to me."

[intricate_engineer]

"There do seem to be some analogs between 'mon and animals."

[the_very_best]

"Guess so."

[intricate_engineer]

Glen jams a stick into the ground and asks Rabbit to practice some attacks on it.

[the_very_best]

The stick is very short-lived.

[intricate_engineer]

Glen looks around for a few more sticks and lines them up in a row. She asks Rabbit to attack again.
She glances over to see how Bella and Blink are doing.

[the_very_best]

Blink has fallen asleep. Bella has Rachis sparring with Fireflower.

[intricate_engineer]

Glens ask her, "Would it be too dangerous for my 'mon to practice on yours?"

[the_very_best]

"Not particularly. I can tell mine to go gentle."

[intricate_engineer]

"Please."
Glen practices with Rabbit, letting Blink rest.

[the_very_best]

Bella tosses Zag. "Zag used to be a Zigzagoon, might be more useful at teaching Zigzagoon-relevant skills," she explains. "Gentle, Zag."

"Noone," says Zag.

"Good boy."

[intricate_engineer]

"What is he now?"

[the_very_best]

"Linoone," says Zag, and Bella gestures at him.

[intricate_engineer]

"How long did it take for him to evolve?"

[the_very_best]

"I got him partially trained up, but a couple years after that."

[intricate_engineer]

"So I won't need to worry about that for a while yet."

[the_very_best]

"You don't have to let Rabbit evolve if you don't want for some reason."