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Figures he'd be asleep when I got here...

[There's a Tifa holding a Budew in one arm, the little pokémon makes a little happy noise at the camera]

Hey, so I made it to Azalea finally and turns out my travelling partner is in that coma thing. Nurse Joy says he's been like this for a while, so I'm assuming he's doing that thing where you go to sleep for a while and wake up and suddenly you're more knowledgeable about what happens in your future.

That is still happening, right? I don't have to worry about him, or anything, right?

[She gives the 'gear a skeptical look. Then there's some sounds and Tifa looks away from the camera for a moment.]

Also... [She turns the device and now there's a weedle and a caterpie on screen.]

These two little guys have been following me around since a bit before arriving at Violet. They won't go when I tell them too, but they won't fight my Johnny or let themselves get caught, what's up with that? It's nearly been two weeks! I've been leaving them alone but with the way the nights have been recently....

I don't know...

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It wouldn't hurt to try befriending them anyway. Feed them, let them follow after you, and who knows? Maybe they'll jump into a ball for you willingly someday.

[the easier, the better as far as this one is concerned]

Perhaps. I've been feeding them, wouldn't want them to starve or anything, but they don't let me get too close. I guess I'll just have to see how our relationship progresses.

It's all you can do, really. It took a long time for the Milotic I found to warm up to me...if she hadn't been so badly exhausted when I found her I doubt she would have let me put her in a ball to begin with...

[a pause and then]

What 'coma thing' are you talking about?

[She nods.]

Huh? Oh! Well...when I was still around, sometimes people would suddenly go into a coma like state! They'd just...sleep for a week and then when they woke up, turns out time had passed for them. Or something like that.

You know how some people who come from the same world might be a little ahead or behind each other? Well when they go to sleep, it's like they go off back to their world and time passes for them there but not here....

Actually, you know what? It's pretty confusing.

Like hopping between several fragments at once and only being able to exist in one at a time?

[She's actually kinda more familiar with that concept than one might think]

Something like that, I suppose. Forgot that people come from all sorts of world, you'd probably understand better than me.

[Time and different worlds confuse Tifa, to be honest.]

So, then...instead of disappearing, they just leave their human vessel unattended and unmanned for however long it takes them to resolve their business back in the timeline they'd initially left...

...I think I understand now.

[she murmurs thoughtfully]

....I assume, then, when they disappear completely, whatever brought them here is done with them?

Mmm...not exactly. I've been here before, six years ago in my timeline, though it's been three years here. And when I was first here, I had a friend come back three different times. Although...he never remembered his previous visits.