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[20faces]

That was a really mean prank...

[The admonishment comes from a very pale boy, blanket wrapped around his shoulders and over his head like a cocoon. He looks sick, and most longer term residents will recognise the cause as the Halloween goodie bag of berries still sitting in his lap.]

What if one of my Pokemon got poisoned? I know playing tricks on people is a tradition at Halloween, but that's just going too far.

[He shivers, drawing the blanket around himself a little tighter.]

I think I even started hallucinating. Everyone suddenly had magical powers...

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[meikyuubutterfly]

[...Oops, going to jump straight into the last thing this person said.] Everyone suddenly had magical powers?

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[20faces]

People were flying and shooting bullets out of their fingers! And almost everyone started glowing - I thought for a second I might go blind.

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[meikyuubutterfly]

[What?
...
What?]

That doesn't make any sense, considering no one has their - or any other - powers here.

[You'd probably go blind in her magical canon, considering how much people can glow there.]

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[20faces]

[As if that makes less sense than anything else that happens in this world.]

I know. I think being sick must have made me a bit delirious.

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[meikyuubutterfly]

[Well, true. But it makes no sense to a girl, who has tried to use her magical powers here without any results.]

Either that, or it was just a dream.

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[20faces]

Probably.

[But... maybe not? There are a lot of reasons to suspect it was just a dream, but there are also reasons it had to be real! He can't make up his mind about it.]

You haven't had any strange dreams lately, have you miss? If you don't mind me asking.

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[meikyuubutterfly]

[Frown.] So, you think it was just a dream?

[And not just hallucination? A certain blue-haired boy is going to get all the questions about his dreams sooner or later.]

I don't mind the question, but nope, I haven't had any. Looks like quite many had them though.

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[20faces]

I guess so...

[He sounds hesitant, like he's not ready to commit to one explanation or another just yet.]

But if that many people were dreaming of similar things, it can't just be a coincidence.

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[meikyuubutterfly]

[...Welp, that actually makes her think of how her concerts used to be full of kids spacing out like they had no soul. Coincidence? Nope, just her magical skills, if she uses them for taking hope away from children.

So, excuse her while she thinks about that for a moment.]

It's definitely not just a coincidence. So, what else happened in those dreams?

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[20faces]

Everyone was trapped in an abandoned castle...

[Though each time he tried to recall specific details he'd remember things a little differently. Tapestries would disappear, orchards would rot, rooms would melt. Another sign it was just a dream? Or is it just another effect of those berries?]

Oh! And our Pokemon were there, too! They must have gone before us - somehow they managed to get trapped behind all these colored doors.