A/N: Written for repad for her birthday…and somehow a straight-forward Drew&Solidad friendship mutated into this. So it's also for the Indigo League Challenge, Viridian Forest's drabble collection.
He Drew a Beginning
1. The First Step
He turned ten in the winter, and the Roselia he received was a small and scrunched up thing from the cold.
Perhaps that was what brought them together. Leaving the grey city behind them they entered the green fields dusted white, wrapping themselves warmly by small fires in the night and constantly moving about by day. Together, always together, they'd managed to grow a bit before the wilderness and the worst of the chill passed by, and by that point they were firm friends, ready to face the journey stretching further ahead.
His initial dream, so detailed and impossible, had lost itself in the snow, but that was all the better for them. Roselia wasn't the perfect Pokemon, but he was not either, and it was only when they understood each other and knew each other inside out could they hope to grow to infinity. To that far-up sun mirrored in the fluffy snow.
And Roselia was brighter, livelier, when they finally stepped into Lilycove City with worst of winter and their beginning behind them.