[By the first word of his explanation, she's frozen. For a long, excruciating moment, she can only stare at him, helpless as her mind slowly processes it piece by piece, each sentence like a needle being driven into her skull. He had this; a traveler; west of Alola; amnesia... She had braced her hands and knees against the floor, and now a tremor starts in her arms.
It's impossible—isn't it? She'd searched, spent night after night poring over his research, agonized over it, gone mad with hoping...
(Distantly, if she wills herself to, she can still recall large sections of that research—notes describing how those sent through an Ultra Wormhole into another dimension carried with them a trace of its energy and arrived confused, as if out of time, and often with a loss of memory...)
She can't accept it. Something within her snaps.]
How... dare you...! [Suddenly, she draws herself up, eyes blazing and wings unfurling wide. Even with her still on her hands and knees, it makes her seem abruptly larger, multi-eyed and monstrous.] How dare you use him against me... You hateful... scheming... liar!
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It's impossible—isn't it? She'd searched, spent night after night poring over his research, agonized over it, gone mad with hoping...
(Distantly, if she wills herself to, she can still recall large sections of that research—notes describing how those sent through an Ultra Wormhole into another dimension carried with them a trace of its energy and arrived confused, as if out of time, and often with a loss of memory...)
She can't accept it. Something within her snaps.]
How... dare you...! [Suddenly, she draws herself up, eyes blazing and wings unfurling wide. Even with her still on her hands and knees, it makes her seem abruptly larger, multi-eyed and monstrous.] How dare you use him against me... You hateful... scheming... liar!