28.
This person trains her too. Lance is as ruthless as the mountain she had stayed on. Harsher even because he has limits he ignores. The mountain does not. Lance should care but he does not.
"Your guardian disappeared in a scuffle," he tells her. "With an R on his suit. Rocket. A terrible team who uses pokemon for money."
She wants to not believe him. Unfortunately, she acknowledges that Giovanni will do almost anything for his son and for his own feelings.
"Why?" she says instead, pulling out her fishing rod instead of looking him in the eye.
"You would know that best."
That was true, she would.
