It hardly counts as an argument when it's only three tags long, but hey. The fire is extinguished, its ashes buried, and off Team MRPN goes in search of that city whose lights Nora glimpsed twinkling in the distance of the night.

As it turns out, though, they don't have to get very far along before greater signs of civilization are encountered. Ren said he sensed people, and so it proves to be true: a small figure appears through the trees before long, a small boy in a big straw hat with an even bigger butterfly net in hand. There's not the least bit of anything threatening about him, not even the way his eyes light up when he spots them.

"Hey, hi!" he exclaims, waving his hand as he runs up towards them. "You have Pokémon! Wanna battle?"

A strange request to make of strangers, but what does one have to do with the other? Not that Nora stops to wonder given that she's pulling Magnhild out to--