[PLACEHOLDER] An Aether's Paradise, a Family's Sanctuary

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If you saw my recent announcement, yeah. This entire chapter, 3000+ words from what I can remember and hours of painstaking work, was deleted in an instant. Safe to say I'm not happy with my laptop and the site I use to store my documents for doing this. I don't even have the energy to rewrite it. So here's a summary of what I can remember. Maybe one day I'll rewrite it fully. Sorry, guys.

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Entering the Paradise, Zenith encounters Faba, reminisces about her childhood at the Paradise with a bit of lore thrown in about the family dynamic, and reunites with her mom. Really sweet and heartfelt. Lillie and Gladion come in and they all have an embrace, then the cousins all join in as well. Zenith updates them on how things are going, they exchange information including about the Eeveelutions/Star, and then Wicke enters with the Furfrou. There are six, one for each of the Sawyer siblings, which were birthday gifts when they still lived at the Paradise.

Zenith's- shiny orange diamond trim- Sunshine
Shadow's- red kabuki trim- Noble
Pine's- green dandy trim- Unity
Crystal's- aqua star trim- Daydream
Lillie's- yellow debutante trim- Harmony
Gladion's- blue pharaoh trim- Chaos

They talk for a while longer until it's time to focus on the task at hand. Zenith talks to Lusamine and Luna about how the latter got the research with help from the history and records department to find out about Ash's family and that the files should be in the library.

Zenith goes there with Star and looks around, but fails to find anything. The library is massive, reminiscent of the one in Sawyer mansion, with a glass ceiling looking into the water and multiple floors with a huge open-air center for fliers to traverse. She winds up catching the attention of some of the people there and attracting a crowd, who all cheer for her. Zenith is asked multiple questions by them until a red-haired young man barely older than her, and someone they all clearly recognize and respect, dressed in the Paradise's uniform stops them and introduces himself.

His name is Silver.

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In good news... I have another project I might eventually post? Maybe you guys will be interested in that. It's Pokemon-based as well but follows different characters and isn't set in the anime, and is sort of a collab with one of my best friends. It'll probably be a while until it comes out, but it's been helping me work through writer's block. Thanks for reading and so sorry for the deleted chapters.

-Zenith

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