#noel 'sprinkles' morgrem

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My star sending for @ask-the-royal-absol !

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sialia@krampus "losing a family member.... it's thankfully not something i've experienced, but i do have that fear a lot, so i can kind of understand what you feel. if it WAS somehow possible for you to see your son again... what would you hope his life would be like now?"

A peak back at the cafe, where Noel gets a little help remembering something.

scalding hot!

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[ Krampus and Noel are temporarily unable for ask. We'll meet back up with them again in a bit. ]

[ In the meantime, the rest of the Cafe crew are open for ask again! ]

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It looks like we have some special visitors!

Perhaps they can interest you in a trick or treat?

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you've been caught before? was it by those pokemon hunters you mentioned?

Noel.

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(@eevee-crossing) Fuegia @ Sprinkles: "Oh, 'ey, this place is rather good, burney..." She got really excited to see a café, but she looks at the shiny Morgrem now. "Oh my, something is happened with your ear, can you explain what exactly happened?"

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Open for Business!

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December 1st

"There you are."

Sprinkles yelped and whipped around to face the source of the voice, allowing himself to relax upon seeing it. The speaker- Sandy- tilted his head and raised a brow; Sprinkles looked away quickly, embarrassed.

"I wasn't even trying to be quiet," Sandy chuckled as he closed the distance and met Sprinkles next to the window, "what's got your attention in sucha vice grip you can't hear someone callin' your name from the other room?"

Sprinkles laughed nervously, now even more embarrassed at just how spaced out he had been.

"I was just... thinking," Sprinkles said, voice barely above a whisper. He thought for a moment, then continued before Sandy could inevitably prompt him to. "Sandy is the name your trainer gave you, right?"

Sandy gave another questioning look regarding the direction of the conversation, but responded nonetheless.

"Sure is. Woulda been fine with somethin' else, but Sixes liked it, so I stuck with it."

"Did you have a different name before? Before your trainer, I mean."

Sandy hummed, thinking. A second before Sprinkles could retract the question, worried he overstepped in some way, Sandy answered.

"Not really. Didn't really interact with other cacturne much so there was never a reason for one. When I did group up I'd get a nickname tossed at me, sure, but most of 'em weren't exactly the nicest things. Certainly not names worth keeping."

"Oh." It came out more disappointed sounding than Sprinkles had really intended, but he's sure Sandy would've picked on it anyway.

"Did you?" Sandy asked without missing a beat. Sprinkles shouldn't have been surprised at how quickly Sandy got to the root of why Sprinkles had asked about Sandy's name, but he had been hoping for more time to think of how to answer.

"I... think so. I feel like I did, but I can't-" the words came out in fragmented sentences, spilled out as they came to mind without time to piece them together properly, "...quite remember it."

"That's silly, isn't it?" Sprinkles added on before Sandy had a chance to speak, "Not remembering my own name, I mean. But its just-"

"Its not silly." Sandy asserted. "You were pretty young when you got taken away from your pa, right?"

The question didn't need an answer, Sprinkles knew that Sandy already knew, but he nodded regardless. Sandy hummed once more, turning away as he grabbed for a chair positioned at a nearby table. The shrieking of the chair's legs against the floor made Sprinkles recoil, but it was only a few seconds before Sandy had positioned it- and, promptly, himself- next to Sprinkle's own seat.

"Well," Sandy started, leaning against the back of the chair, "It can already be hard to remember things from when you're that young. Trauma messes with memory too. Real nasty storm, there. Its no surprise some things got lost in the fallout."

Sprinkles knew these things already, but hearing someone say it made him feel better about it. Still...

"I just wish I could remember it."

"I get it. Feels like you ain't got nothing connecting you back to that time, don't it? Having a name to tie you back would make you feel like you had some kinda link back to your pa, right?"

Sprinkles hummed a quiet agreement, watching the snow fall silently. A buzz in his brain signaled a memory trying to surface, but attempts to bring it to attention presented nothing but white noise, memory clouded by a snow storm.

snow.

"Winter," Sprinkles sputtered, "it had something to do with winter. I hatched the first day it had snowed in the Glimwood Tangle for decades."

Sandy looked over to Sprinkles, listening carefully, and gave a gentle smile.

"You just remembered that?" Sandy asked, Sprinkles not having time to affirm before Sandy continued, "That's a good sign. Means the memory ain't completely gone, just lost."

Sandy rose to his feet and reached over to ruffle Sprinkles' hair.

"Just don't strain yourself trying to remember it, that won't help you none," Sandy turned to leave, ending with what he had sought Sprinkles out to tell him to begin with. "Shop's closed up, by the way. Get some rest, kid."

Sandy walked out of sight, leaving Sprinkles by himself. As he stared out the window to the snowy night, Sprinkles drifted into a slumber filled with dreams of black fur and white snow.

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(@lambda-asks) lambda @ bubblegum: ah, humans... always a curious topic around pokemon. do you often receive human customers? are you all... comfortable, with them?

@lambda-asks

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(blueespeon) Toshi @ Krampus

Can I ask you a question? I hope you don't mind, but what does your son look like? Does he have a particular appearance that is special about him? Is he melanistic like you?

I might be able to help. If I have seen someone similar, I could give you a description of them and maybe they could be your son.

It might not happen that easily, but I am willing to try to help you.

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