"Hngg! Hnngggg! Hnnngggggahh~" Bell vocalized as she scaled a tall, wooden chair at the cozy inn's bar. "Hiya Alcremie! I hope the batch of poké puffs that I gave the inn yesterday were yum - I didn't get to steal one for myself before I came to drop them off," she explained while catching her breath from the strenuous climb. "Just one of my usual, please! And with a straw... as usual."

Alcremie slid a cup of berry juice onto the bar in front of Bell, kindly positioning the bendy straw towards her before leaving to attend to a set of patrons that had just sat down.

It wasn't until Alcremie had left, leaving Bell with nobody to talk to (or rather, to talk at), that she realized that she had sat down beside another Pokémon... instead of in any of the empty seats to the left or right of the Pokémon that would have given them an appropriate amount of personal space.

'No use in moving now, that'd just be weird and I'm no weirdo!' she figured, as she decided that she would start up a conversation with the stranger. The Pokémon was small - a Raltz - so it's no surprise that she hadn't noticed them as she sat down; but now that she was aware of the Raltz's presence, she observed something rather odd: they were a shiny! This didn't interest Bell so much as an observation or fact, however - instead, she was glad to have found a conversation starter.

"Hi there! Not every day that you get to meet a shiny Pokémon! I don't think I've seen you around before!" Bell stated, not wanting to overtly ask the Raltz for any personal information, but still trying to get the Raltz to divulge some information about themselves.




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Nix Night

''Sir??' Do they think I'm a male? I need to work on my image...' Bell thought to herself as the Raltz spoke - all the while attempting to keep her internal dialogue from leaking into her facial expression.

The Raltz was interrupted by Alcremie setting down a glass of moomoo milk onto the counter beside the small, white and blue pokemon before they began to speak once again: they introduced themselves and Bell noticed them hold their hand up for a moment as if to reach for a handshake - 'Not the quickest to observe, but friendly enough!'

"Nice to meet you, Nix! I'm Bell!" Bell said, acting as though she hadn't noticed Nix calling her "sir" and hoping that her name would clue the young Raltz towards her actual gender. Her short legs dangled from the chair as she kicked them to and fro casually. "I'm glad you found yourself in the best town in Lucerne. It gets dangerous out there in other places, ya know." Bell didn't want to prod too deeply into the Raltz's history, even though she didn't consciously notice the slight flutter in Nix's voice as she spoke of her family. "I couldn't help but notice that you got yourself some moomoo milk!" Bell reported. "If you like snacks, poffins and poke puffs go great with moomoo milk. I think Alcremie might still have a few poke puffs laying around - if you'd like one, It's on me!" She offered, in hopes of making a new friend.



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Nix Night

Bell listened intently to Nix, glad to hear a slight easing in her tone as the topic shifted towards food. Between the family name and the travelling, she seemed to have a pretty unorthodox life - though Bell didn't find that to be any reason to be uncomfortable with the young, timid Raltz.

"Oh, allow me to order you a poke puff this very instant!" Bell declared, waving down the attentive Alcremie. "Can you bring my friend, Nix, one of my frosted poke puffs? Mmmm, I'm thinking..." she took looked at Nix observantly for a second, ...one of the minty ones, please!"

As Alcremie left to fetch the poke puff, Bell turned her attention back to Nix. "Food's my specialty, ya see! I'm always baking, so sometimes I go around selling my poffins or pokepuffs for a couple of pokecoins. Every once in a while, Alcremie asks me to make a batch for her to sell here in the inn!"

"Maybe if you ever have the time, I can show you some tricks to make your scavenger-y travel poffins even better!" She said enthusiastically, hoping to seal the deal on gaining a new friend.



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Nix Night

Bell was overjoyed at Nix's positive response to her suggestion. "That sounds fantastic!" she proclaimed. "I have a nice setup for baking at home that we can use! But maybe when we're out in the wilderness and you're teaching me about all the pleasant herbs that you like to use, you can show me how to make a fire too; I was actually thinking of becoming an explorer..." she said, her cheerful demeanor shifting to a more serious one.

"I don't really have any explorer skills, yet... But scavenging and making fires is a good place to start, right?" she asked rhetorically, struggling to maintain her optimism over the subject.

Bell's joy was quick to return, however, when Alcremie waltzed back to the duo with a light green frosted poke puff atop a small, white plate and placed the dish on the counter between the two Pokemon. "But anyways, here!" she said, sliding the poke puff an inch towards Nix. "Tell me what you think! It's a day old, but it shouldn't be too stale by now. And when you're with me, don't worry about the money aspect of things!" she said, recalling what Nix had said regarding her own financial situation. "My family doesn't have a lot of money either - after all, they have 11 other mouths to feed. But I've got connections all over town that help me out sometimes."

Bell then took a rare break from her incessant talking and began staring intently at Nix, waiting to observe her reaction to the poke puff.


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Nix Night

"Ohh, yeah," Bell said with a tired sigh. "Ten whole siblings. They're a lot to handle sometimes, but I still love em to death. I have no idea what my parents were thinking, though." Instead of elaborating on her own family situation, however, Bell decided to steer the conversation towards what Nix said that excited her the most: exploring!

"But wait, you want to been an explorer too?? How exciting! Maybe we'll see eachother in a dungeon or something some time! We would totally kick butt," She said, peppier than when she was talking about her siblings. "But why don't you want to join a team? I feel like it'd be so nice having other pokemon to rely on and trust - it'd be like a second family!"

Bell's excitement and curiosity over Nix's interest in exploring was almost enough to make her forget about Nix's poke puff! But it wasn't quite enough, of course. "Oh, and how do you like your poke puff? that's the important question!" she asked, straightening her posture more than before and awaiting feedback.




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OOC: Sorry if this one seems a little short and quickly-written! I've got a lot to do today, but I didn't wanna keep you waiting for too long!