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3: Battle at Floccesy Ranch

        Theresa made her way down the route to Floccesy town, it was fairly quiet save for the sound of the Pokemon making a noise here and there. It was a nice change of pace with Hugh up on ahead of her and Eve with his Snivy, however the lack of having the noisy and rambunctious teen around had already found her feeling fairly lonely again. But knowing how Hugh was, it wouldn't be too long before she encountered him again and in the least likely of all places, however hearing someone call her name from just outside of the town was enough to catch her attention.

"Huh...?" She muttered, looking around to try and find the owner of the voice who had been calling out her name.

"Theresa!"

When she got closer to the source of the noise she couldn't help but give a friendly smile to the owner of voice, seeing the red headed Alder again was a nice sight for sore eyes, it had been some time since she had last seen the former League Champion and it was overwhelmingly pleasant to see him doing much better than he had been before.

"Alder! So good to see you again!" Theresa exclaimed, waving at him from where he currently stood. "Still hanging out on the high ledges I see."

Alder gave a hearty laugh, then jumped down to where she stood going over to the Brunette to pet the Silver Eevee on her shoulder. Eve responded with a contented chirp, leaning closer to the hand that continued to pet him, Alder had been the only person within Unova that Eve had voluntarily allowed to touch him, much less pet him.

"Nice to see you again too kiddo, same to Eve." Alder responded, ceasing his pets on the Eevee before patting the Brunette on the head. Eve responded to the gesture with a mild glare before accepting that it had been all said and done. "I'm surprised that you're taking the initiative to leave Aspertia City, kind of figured you were going to stay there for awhile longer."

"Some things came up here and there, I got offered the chance to travel alongside someone and.. Well, I think its about time to get up and fully explore Unova this time instead of having to take constant side trips." Theresa said, shrugging in attempt to establish it was her best answer. "Besides... As nice as Unova is, I can't stay here forever... it's just not in my nature.

"I see, there's a lot to catch up on. Why don't you come on over and we can talk a bit more there, it's a tad warm out here and a bit open for private affairs."

Theresa thought about it, stealing a small glance from Eve before shaking her head. As much as it would be nice to chat away with Alder, she needed to catch up to Hugh before she was lost behind the dust that the teen was leaving in his wake.

"As humble of an offer that sounds Alder, I'll have to save that offer for another day."

"Oh is that so?"

"Yeah, I'm actually trying to catch up with someone. He told me that he would meet me in Floccesy Town and I'm sure he's going to become too damn impatient to wait for me to catch up to him." Theresa answered. "Given your penchant of hanging out in high places, you haven't seen Hugh run by here have you?"

"Hmm..." Alder hummed, closing his eyes in thought recalling who and all had come down the route today. "He wouldn't happen to have dark hair and be about around this height would he?" To best establish the height that he was talking about, he held his hand up in a general rough estimate.

"Yeah, exactly that actually."

"He seemed to be quite in a rush towards Route 20, he must be extremely eager to get to Virbank city." He mused, "I recall that when I first met you and Cheren, he had been adamant on becoming strong rather than forming such close bonds with his Pokemon."