A few minutes prior, Aislin had been having the total opposite day of the crying bleeding girl in the loo. She’d just successfully gotten her starter and the Elekid whose name she was still ruminating on was snug in a special ball the coordinator had purchased as soon as she left the lab. The default Pokeball had been tossed to a random kid on the street, no longer useful to Aislin. It had been a little strange to walk out of the lab with anything other than a fairy Pokemon - especially considering one had been presented to her! But she had a feeling she’d have plenty of opportunities to get one that was better suited to her personality and goals along the way.

Then had come the street vendor hawking eggs of all things! The man in the coat - which honestly she thought a bit strange given the warm summer sunshine they were enjoying in Cassiopeia - seemed eager to get rid of them. When she’d bought what she knew to be a Bounsweet egg from him he’d tossed in two more eggs for the price of one! So here she was, with a mystery egg that had no discernible markings, a Bounsweet egg, and the honestly smelly purplish egg that he’d told her was a Purrloin. She wasn’t sure whether keeping it was worth the gorgeous kitten it would produce and had the decision made for her when a fellow patron in the cafe she’d stopped into for lunch had made a comment on her stinking Koffing egg. Aislin had of course corrected the other woman, saying it was a Purrloin, only to be laughed at by the entire establishment.

She’d not even finished her sandwich, tossing it into the trash as she felt hot tears of annoyance and shame welling up. How embarrassing to be caught with...well...egg on her face! She thought perhaps she could dump it in the trash just like her sandwich, because, well, who would miss out on another one of those things coming into the world?? But she knew that was a passing impulse that frightened her to realize it even popped into her head. There had to be another solution, she thought, as she went into the restroom in case the tears began to fall. That’s when she saw the other girl, pretty enough except for the blood gushing from her nostril and dripping off of her chin. She’d done plenty of crying for the both of them judging by the puffy redness of her eyes.

”Heeey. You alright there?” she asked, not genuinely concerned for the girl’s well-being so much as her own. If she was some wild woman who would rush her and choke her out she didn’t want to take any chances on getting too close. It looked like the blood had been well-cleaned from her face by now but she was struggling to clean her dress, ”Here, you’re just scrubbing in the stain.” she tsked, unbuckling her oversized designer bag and shuffling her eggs and other supplies out of the way to grab a stain fighting stick of dry detergent before handing it over, ”Try this…..”


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Eggs in thread: Mystery Egg (1/10 posts) and Bounsweet Egg (1/5 threads), getting ready to hand Koffing (1/3 threads) over to Damsel IC