AN: I do not own or claim to own any rights to Pokemon or its franchise.
Chapter Warnings: none
It's oddly strange how, as one grows older, time seems to shrink. As a child, a single day at school seemed to last forever. You're doing one thing and then a moment later, well... it really was a moment later. As an adult, a moment seems more like a week, a month, or maybe even a year. It didn't even matter if you were having fun, or if you were having a non-mid-life crisis. One day it happens, and the next you find yourself twenty years older. In this way, time is rather weird, and sometimes I wonder where it all went.
A wistful sigh escaped me as I overlooked the big, old blue. Large, wispy clouds floated through the sky at a seemingly slow pace. My eyes drifted around before locking onto a flock of Wingull and Pelipper heading inland. The ocean and its inhabitants was nothing new nor shocking, and growing up around it, I found it as a nice comfort that few could offer. While I loved my friends, family, and Pokemon, sometimes even I needed a break from them. Of course, it wasn't as if that was surprising. As if reading my mind, a soft breeze soothed my growing sorrow.
Next to me, my companion gave a soft squeak. For a bat-like Pokemon, it was rather difficult to describe, but I just felt that he was trying to comfort me. I don't know how, and while it was sometimes a curse, it was a nice reassuring emotion. The scene that spread out before my eyes tugged on my memories of previous events. Longing, sadness, happiness, excitement, anger, embarrassment... all these emotions that I knew for certain came from myself, and not from someone else.
When you're an empath it's hard to discern your own emotions from others, but there are few times when I am sure it's not someone else. There were times when feeling everything was just too much, but sometimes it really helped. Whether the pros outweighed the cons or vice versa I wasn't sure, and I wasn't willing to go deep into it. I think I was born like that, but regardless, it was a part of me and thinking about what could have been... well, nothing good comes from it. However, I really only started to truly distinguish the different feelings when I started my journey.
Coincidentally, it began on a day exactly like this.
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