"I don't know that anyone with a lab could tell you exactly how they speak anyway. Seems like something you'd have to feel, like the longer that you're with one, the easier it is to understand." Admittedly, she wasn't so hot at that, but it was a dream for almost any good trainer out there, to want to understand what their pokemon were thinking. Or, alternatively, to find out if porygons dreamed of electronic mareep in their sleep.

"I'm pretty sure there are Hoothoots, Pidgeys and Pidoves out there," she said a bit idly. "Though I've wondered if there's maybe a Honchkrow, with how dark some of the parts can be. That would be an interesting find, wouldn't it?" This was good. Geeking out about pokemon would take their minds off of things.