Message #68749

[Kloud]

Shelby switched Simba out for her Starly, Winter, when her Pokemon were returned. The bird rested on her shoulder. She was trying her best to disregard Michael's teasing, her face reddening some, but when she turned around and saw Ran had followed her, she dropped any irritation at Michael and hung close to him.

"Thank you. Michael, this is Ran. Ran, this is Michael." She said nothing else, wanting to let Michael provide a cross-examination of sorts. She wanted to watch how they interacted. She wasn't sure what, exactly, Ran's motives were, but considering the large stakes, she also knew that violence or backstabbing wasn't out of the question, and she also knew that there was strength in numbers. And with Michael by her side, that made two against one. Shelby was a paranoid person, but that didn't mean she wasn't hopeful that Ran was just a strange person or NPC who was friendly.