First Encounter. {Private}

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Giraffi looked around. It was nighttime. He looked up at the stars. "I wonder when I'll reach Moonlight village," he asked the sky. The stars twinkled brightly. He sighed. He'd  been lost for what seemed forever. He opened his pouch full of poke and other materials. 

He pulled out his map. "So, this is Breezy Plains," he muttered to himself. He heard footsteps. "Huh?" Giraffi said. He looked around. He couldn't see anything. The thought scared him.

He looked around, tail head erect. He heard rustiling of the grass, but he couldn't see anything. "Wh-what's going on?" he asked. 

He looked around, fear bunching up.

Ronan

[Ronan]

Nighttime was Ronan's favorite time of day. In a manner of speaking, of course, because it wasn't really day when at night. But he loved listening to the soft sounds of life settling down; children pleading for 'five more minutes', crickets chirping their beautiful songs, the breeze whispering through the trees.

If he listened really closely, he could pretend to even hear the stars twinkling. Pinging like snowflakes, sparkling like diamonds, bright like jewels. Yes, Ronan truly loved the nighttime. Not everyone shared in his enjoyment of it, though, and the voice he heard as he walked sounded like one of them. "I wonder when I'll reach Moonlight Village." the voice asked.

There was distress in the voice, and Ronan frowned in worry. The pokemon sounded like it was lost. The Eevee creeped forward through the grass, hoping to find the pokemon, but it seemed his creeping approach startled the other pokemon from their thoughts. "Huh? Wh-What's going on?"

Ronan stilled in the tall grass and focused through the blades to view a Girafferig. He had a pouch with him, and Ronan frowned lightly. That was practically begging a bandit or thief to steal from him. He exited the tussocks with one final rustle and said, "Peace, friend. I mean you no harm. I heard you speaking to yourself and thought you sounded confused. Could I be of help, perhaps?"

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Giraffi was startled. He jumped back slightly. He listened to the pokemon talk. Was it an eevee? He did his combat stance, in case the pokemon was a bandit. "No, I don't need help, thanks anyway," he grumbled. He turned, his pouch exposed. He was going to test if this pokemon was a theif or not.

[Ronan]

If his mother was here and could read his thoughts, Ronan had no doubt he'd get a good smack over the head. The way the Girafferig jumped and spun to face him had him chortling on the inside. He knew he was stealthy, but not good enough to startle anyone that badly! The other pokemon must have really been on edge.

The battle stance the other took both amused and pained him to look at. It was clear he had little battle experience. He stood with his weight on his front hooves rather than evenly balanced, he was obviously depending on his tail to defend his backside, and his focus was solely on Ronan rather than on his surroundings.

It was obvious he had very little experience being out in the wild and even less experience with confrontations. "No, I don't need help, thanks anyway." Ronan barely understood the grumble, but the gesture the other made to expose his pouch was so clear he might well have screamed it. "Yes, that's why you're wandering around hostile territory at night rather than finding shelter and bedding down until dawn. Because you 'don't need help'."

Ronan snorted and shook his head, the Everstone hanging around his neck swinging from side to side. "Look, I'm not going to hurt you. If I was going to attack you, don't you think I would have already? For one, if I wanted to start a fight, I would have ambushed you rather than announce my presence by rustling the grass.

"Two, bandits usually work in groups of at least two, so even if I was a bad guy, you'd still be in trouble. For three," and here he let a sly and slightly arrogant grin appear on his muzzle, "if I wanted your stuff, you'd have no chance against me."

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Giraffi stepped back offended. He looked at the Eevee warily. "Uh-uh..." he sputtered. Dang it, I look weak! Not that I'm strong. he thought quietly. He looked at the eevee. "Co-could you really help me?" he asked quietly. He shuffled from his battle stance to his normal one. "W-where's Moonlight Village? I have to get there by this morning.." he thought.

[Ronan]

At seemed like the more Ronan spoke, the more the Girafferig grew offended. Not that it was surprising, considering just how badly the Eevee was dressing him down. At first he only stuttered, and Ronan raised an eyebrow expectantly. Was the other really trying to defend himself against Ronan's claims?

Evidently not. "Co-could you really help me?" he asked quietly. If Ronan's ears weren't so good, he might not have heard it at all. The other pokemon shifted to a regular stance, signifying he wasn't so defensive anymore. "W-where's Moonlight Village? I have to get there by this morning."

Ronan's eyebrows hiked higher, and without thinking his words through said, "You have a really bad sense of direction, you know what? Moonlight Village is north of here by about two days. How did you get so lost and turned around?" What, it was an honest question! On an island shaped like a crescent moon, it was difficult to get so befuddled.

The Eevee closed his eyes and sighed, raising his face to the skies above. He prayed to Arceus and Cresselia that the other would react well to his suggestion and actually cooperate. "I have camp made half a mile that way." He gestured with his tail towards where he came from. "You can come up with me and stay there. I'll escort you all the way to Moonlight Village so you make it safely." 'Since you obviously can't take care of yourself.' he thought a bit uncharitably.

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Giraffi blushed. That eevee was making fun of him! Sure, he had no sense of direction, but... He looked away, offended. He listened. "Sure, can i join you at your camp?" he asked quietly.