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[bertall]

Um... This is Bertolt, and if you're hearing this I'm probably busy. You can leave a message here or call back later if you want? ...Can I start over?

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[sunspotted]

[ marco reaches up to gently pet the new pokemon, who is living for all the attention she's already getting. ]

That might be true, but I don't want to get caught with a weak point. [ the reasons for that... sadly obvious, although marco doesn't linger over them. ] You think they're gonna get to be as big as Marcel?

[bertall]

_{[You know what? He's going in for a little chin scratch, too. It's so hard to resist.]}

You'll be just fine. I took on a few gyms with Marcel as my front. He actually took care of the gym in Azalea more or less by himself when he was a Growlithe, and I had only been here for... Two? Maybe three months?

_{[Never underestimate the power of dogs and fire, Marco.]}

I think it might, though. I just wouldn't hold it while it evolves if you go that route, and you can probably ask Armin why.

[sunspotted]

[ why deny yourself the scratch, bertolt? the little pokemon chirps, gumming at bertolt's finger after a moment with her baby teeth.

marco gives a little laugh. ]

After Viola, I plan on keeping any evolution stones far out of reach.

[bertall]

_{[Not the puppy teeth! He's been vanquished!]}

You say that now, but just wait until Marcel starts to weasel his way into your room at night and you get addicted to having a walking furnace. Or it somehow finds a stone and gets into it.

[sunspotted]

She already feels pretty warm.

[ teddy chirps helpfully - look, you don't think he was getting nothing out of this, right?- and marco grins. ]

But seriously - thank you, Bertolt. And happy early birthday.

[ a day early, but still. bert may think he didn't get a present, but there's a red stand mixer helpfully hidden for him they all pitched in on. ]