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[Lychee]

Lychee
GCEA Version: Platinum
Trainer Name: Briar Clark
Link to stats: here
Word Count: 541
Entry:

Spoiler:

Journal. Winter. Morning, snowing.
Ice types only.
No moon. Very light breeze from the east. Athemiometer is reading purple. Mood ring, yellow.
Supplies: A thermos of hot Tapu-Cocoa and some sugar biscuits.

A grey and soft morning, despite the freezing temperature. I don't have school for a while, so there's more energy I can spend out in the mountains hunting down cryptid pokemon. I feel as though this weather is very good for finding the pre-evolution of Snover, which I would call 'Iceprout'. It is the kind of weather that people often disappear into and never come back- the kind of weather a baby Snover might be born into, as the snow flowers are beginning to bloom. I pick one as I walk past a spray of them poking their heads up beside the path. They're pretty, and very strange. My kind of flower!

The snow is steady, but I can see many different pokemon tracks in it. Only ice types seem to be about today- all the flying types are snuggled up in nests, and many other normal types are in burrows. Water types are frozen under the surface of lakes, or taking shelter in caves. The grass types usually migrate away from this area in winter (apart from those with coping mechanisms, like Abomasnow and Snover for example) and electrical types are simply not common up here to begin with. I suppose I won't go through every type and explain why they aren't around, it would take up too much time. Regardless, I only have to look through a few pages of my pokemon tracks flipbook because ice pokemon are the only ones out right now. It's handy.

So, I follow some tracks which look like Snover- a shuffling of two pointed feet and a tail. Eventually they join up with a larger track- my flipbook tells me this is Abomasnow, because the body is higher off the ground and the feet have shaggy edges. While I wouldn't particularly like to meet one of those pokemon, I do wonder where the Abomasnow move back to when the final petal falls from the flowers. I also wonder about the relationship between Abomasnow and these flowers- do they come out specifically to find them, do the flowers bloom because of their blizzard-making tendencies, or are the flowers just an indicator? There could be something else going on as well- perhaps the snow flower is an ancient relative of the Snover evolutionary line? They are trees, after all.

I followed these two tracks over hills and around cliffs, finding it hard to see ahead or recognize the landscape around me. The snow fell heavier, and I took a break in a sheltered cave to have some of my supplies. A hot drink is a wonderful thing on a morning like this. I didn't expect to be out so long, and the blizzard is certainly becoming a hazard. I poked my head out of the cave and looked from side to side, watching my footprints and the track I was following becoming quickly covered over by fresh snowfall. Looks like my chances to investigate were quickly running out.

In the white blurry distance, I see the movement of a few trees.
They're coming closer.

[Noblejanobii]

@Lychee You get the full 15 for both! I only caught one mistake in the second one so great work on both!

And if you're wondering what it was:

Eventually they join up with a larger track

You just need a common after "Eventually".