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Melanie


The Sweetheart Lain
Owner: Monologue

Age: 7 years, 6 months, 3 weeks

Born: September 5th, 2016

Adopted: 7 years, 6 months, 3 weeks ago

Adopted: September 5th, 2016

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The soil in Melanie's cliffside neighborhood is poor and rocky, but Florges is more than ambitious enough for them both. The cottage has a beautiful cobbled patio, lined with bare trellises. They could grow morning glories or jasmine, nasturtiums or honeysuckle. They could work their way down from there: lavender and heather, marigolds and petunias, poppies and lilies. The choices are endless. Florges will make it so.

The mulch-maker from the Lilycove Department Store catalogue works double-time. Aggron tills the earth slowly, stretching out healing muscles, and Melanie buries her hands deep into the thick layer of topsoil that they spread on afterwards. It stains her fingers, the dirt streaking across her skin, until she looks a little like Aggron now.

What a relief, she thinks, pressing dusty fingerprints into Aggron's tough hide. His armor is battered and broken and glued together with harsh new growth, but look—now she can paint happier designs over them with her dirty fingers: bold flowers and fat bumblebees and a wavy sun.

Melanie starts her garden with a catalogue and a dream, tiny and frail like the seedlings she buries tenderly into the earth. Every drop of water that she pours down upon them is a promise towards better days.

There are steel pins and plates in both of Melanie’s legs, one more so than the other, and they make her stiff if she's not mindful of the time. What a struggle it had been those first few days after she'd finally graduated from the walker, to swallow her pride and look past her mulishness whenever she'd started to flag and had to reach for a support. But Melanie loves comfort above all else—loves to stretch in the sun and sit in the shade—and so now there's always a cane near to hand in her garden.

Tender points of green have started to poke out of the soil when they start planning to lay out a path to the gate. A neighborhood kid drops by to stare at Aggron as he paces the walk, great head lowered as he prepares the designated stretch.

The child is no more than seven, excitable and vibrant. He looks at Aggron with big eyes shining with awe. To him, the scars are a mark of honor; a promise of greatness. "One day," he boasts, tiny chest puffed up and with bravado the likes that only a child could sport, "I'm going to stand at the very top, too."

Melanie stutters to a stop. It is only the soothing pulses of psychic energy and sweet scent of Aromatherapy wafting from Florges' blossoms that keeps her in her garden.

"You have to be careful," she thinks she says.

"Don't worry! I'll have my partner with me!"

Melanie smooths a hand over Aggron's sun-kissed armor, smoothed down and polished to a shine. "Yes," she agrees softly, "but it wouldn't hurt to put safety first. You have to look behind you every once in a while as you're climbing."

Because here is the truth of the matter: Melanie has never stood at the very top of anything. Instead, she'd been at the bottom, crushed under rock, impossible weights on her leg and side. Her partner had been glowing white. Florges' Pokeball had been just out of reach. And all around her had been screaming.

Story Part 3 here

CREDITS:

Profile & Story by Monologue
Sprites from Bulbapedia
Pokemon (c) Gamefreak

Pet Treasure


Spherical Self-Contained Capture and Storage Unit

Basic Walking Cane

Tension Bandage (Leg)

Extra Strength Pain Pills

Regular Strength Pain Pills

Ziaran Pill Box

Ray of Hope

Garden Dirt

Horticulturists Tools

Gardening Trowel

Gardening Mini-Hoe

Gardening Cultivator

Bulb Planter

Handheld Bulb Shovel

Garden Tools Guide

Beginner Garden Guide

The Big Book of Little Gardens

Candle Bath Token

Matcha Powder

Winter Care Cup

Deco Grey

Murder She Ate

Bow-E Panacea Floral Tea

Lovely Painted Vase

Porcelain Lace Teapot

Porcelain Lace Teacup

Box of Pastries

Orange Honey Blossom Madeleines

Seashell Wind Chime

Red Garden Bridge

Activity Planner

Nature Walk Brochure

Summer Meteor Showers

Fancy Garden Ticket

Grand Invitation

Chibi Brush

Beauty Plain Ribbon

Vanity Bingo Ribbon

Mimi Moe Shia Lip Shine

Delish Naive Purse

Classy Black Dress

Lililace Gilded Masque Partially Transparent Skirt

Vanity Sailor Skirt

Professor New Foxy Shirt

Vanity Cinnamon Top

Blob Kitty Fangirl Knit Top

Ash and Charcoal Knitted Sweater

Cozy Knitted Tan Cardigan

Blue Striped Knitted Coat

Bleached Rabbit Fur Cuff

Elegant Ballroom Ash Fur Shawl

Elegant Ballroom Coal Fur Shawl

Pastel Button Scarf

Riverside Straw Hat

Likes Fashion Statement Tee

Vanity Brine Shoes

Pet Friends