[Video/Action for Violet City]

[yoctogram]

[The video is a little shaky for a moment, then settles down. There is a small pile of clothing in the middle of the street on top of the burnt remnants of the bed that Belphe's Snorlax busted, safely away from everything else, and encircled by five out of Sho's six pokemon. Sho, himself, is also visible with his black hand counting out beats before the Flareon gets pointed at.]

[He gleefully sets the pile of clothing on fire, which leads to the rest of the team; two Eevees, a Liepard in a black hat, a pissy looking Luxray, and the Flareon hopping back into position, beginning a backwards and forwards moving circle dance around the cheerfully burning clothing.]

[Sho is cackling like the madman that he really is and calling the count of the dance. The sharp of eye may have noticed, before the clothing went up, that it was all very distressingly boring, female clothing.]

Comments

[yoctogram]

[Well. Had she possessed her powers, he would have his as well. Which would have led to him being elsewhere, still confused, instead of staggering back a step in bafflement more than because he had to.]

...?

[Something...okay. Uh. ...Yeah, he got nothin'.]

[belphe]

[She just...stays there a minute, forehead pressed firmly against his chest as she lets it sink in exactly what just happened. And then, drawing herself up straight, she brushes past him into the inn without so much as a second glance.

She's had enough of this.]

[yoctogram]

[blinks and watches her go, totally baffled.]

[justanexpression]

[And THAT is why he should have had an escape route.

Jack's just glad she didn't notice him. He doesn't have anything to do with the light show, but somehow he doesn't think that would have mattered. Guilt by association and all that.]

Let me guess. Bell?

[yoctogram]

Yes...

[He's. SO. Confused here.]

[justanexpression]

[Even JACK knows enough about girls to know that burning their clothes is probably a bad idea.]

I don't think she appreciated your show as much as you did.

[yoctogram]

But I gave her new clothing!

[justanexpression]

Yeah, but you burned the old ones.

[yoctogram]

They were boring.

[justanexpression]

Yeah, but...

[Now, granted, Jack has done many things in the name of 'boring' but... usually they're things that can be fixed. Or at least he has an escape plan.]

I don't think she agreed with you.

[yoctogram]

I don't understand.

[He really, really didn't.]