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Seul

I woke up after another short nap and it was again a windy and overcast day as I poked my head out of the empty den that belonged to Yuki. He was no longer inside, sleeping away like he was when I fell asleep last night. He was instead sitting in front of a metal box with some flames licking the metal grate and cut up berries that sat on top of it.

As soon as I padded out of his strange den he turned to look at me with a bright smile.

"Hello sleepy head! I'm surprised to see you up during the day!" He said jovily.

"What happened… after the fire…?" I asked, ignoring common courtesy.

His ears drooped behind his head a little after I said this. "O-Oh… you fainted and smacked your head against a rock… That's why I brought you back here, to stitch you up…"

"And my forest…?" I asked, already knowing the answer.

He looked at me for a second before his ears dropped all the ways down behind his head and he looked away from me, shaking his head.

I felt my legs get shaky again as I contemplated what had happened. I had lost everything in a span for ten minutes the night before. My entire world was destroyed and I was helpless to stop it. My head was racing with questions, where would I sleep, where could I find food, what would I do with any free time… what if my family came looking for me…

I must of been on the verge of a panic attack because I was pulled out of my daze of thoughts by the feeling of a cold paw resting on my shoulder. I looked up and Yuki had a comforting smile on his face as he looked at me.

"Don't worry, you can come stay with me for a while!" He said, holding that goofy smile.

I shook my head and bumped his paw off of me. "There is no place for me at the ends of the roads, it would only lead to confusion and hardships."

He scoffed at me, "lookie here mister, if not for me you would of been in the center of that fire when it hit." He smirked. "So you owe me!"

I had to think it over for a second, but he was right, I would of been in my den, asleep as the forest burned down… He did save my life…

He must of been able to tell I was rolling this over in my head because he laughed to himself and said "eeeeexactly" before he grabbed one of the steaming berries off the strange fire box and sat it down in front of me before getting himself one and beginning to chow down on it.

I sighed and took a nibble of the berry. "I really would rather stay in the forest, the ends of the roads are no place for a forest dweller like me."

The glaceon laughed. "Look, you can come into town and I'll show you around, you'll like it there, I'm sure of it! Pleaaaase?" He begged teasingly.

I felt another sigh involuntarily escape my lungs. "Fine… I'll go with you… for one night…"

"That's the spirit!" He said jovily, batting my shoulder playfully.

"But it will only be one night, ok? I do not want to spend much time with the ones who live there. I hear they can be rather savage…" I said, thinking to some of the stories of other pokemon being chased out of the towns and being attacked that had been circulating throughout the forest.

Yuki gave me a rather puzzled look. "What are you talking about? I haven't heard about any sort of violence in town recently, nothing out of the ordinary anyway… Are you sure that you are not basing your opinions off of rumors?"

"I am not basing an opinion off of anything, I have no opinion of these places you speak of as I have never been there myself." I stated matter-of-factly.

"Well, you'll see that the city is rather beautiful, especially at night, I swear you'll love it!" *He said, collapsing the strange thing that he had cooked out food on down into a small box, and placing it inside of another strange thing I did not recognize. This new thing was lower to the ground and sat on four round things that were on long sticks that connected underneath of the rectangular basin.

"What is this called?" I asked over my shoulder to Yuki as he began to disassemble the den he called a 'tent,' folding that down to be nearly completely flat.

He turned to look at what I saw and laughed a little to himself. "That's called a wagon, it just makes it easier to carry a lot of things at once" As he explained this to me, he tossed the now rolled up tent into the wagon and positioned himself at the front of it, where a rope connected one corner of the basin to the other corner with around three foot of the rope between. He bit the center of this rope and began pulling, it seemed to make the heavy looking objects glide over the ground with ease.

Needless to say I was astonished, and it left me wondering about what other great contraptions I would see in the city compared to this simple one.