- 9th August: The 20th Day -
On his knees, with his hands gripping the edge of the harbour as he leant over the water. Siam vomited into the water, feeling his muscles weaken as he did. The room was spinning and uneven as he leant over the water. He could feel a small stone grow in his throat as he vomited, he was able to reach in and pull it out once he had finished ejecting the gunk from his body. Feeling a cool liquid running down the back of his neck, Siam reached around to touch a tender part at the back of his head, where the bandages were wet. Pulling his hand away showed fresh blood was leaking from the back as well as the right of his head. Siam washed his hand in the water before rubbing his eyes and stumbling to his feet.
"Please..." A frightened voice whispered from nearby "Don't kill me!" Light-headed and quite dizzy, Siam stumbled over toward the voice, to see a man in a white lab coat huddled under a desk "I'm sorry! They made me!" Looking away from the man to the bird, Siam thought of wanting to leave. Both hands sat clamped around his head as he blinked. Finding himself in the Lilycove Pokemon centre, Siam relaxed and slumped down at a table, to take a moment to breathe.
- 10th August: The 21st Day -
Siam spent a little over half the day at the pokemon centre, watching over the beds where the Shiftry and Linoone slept in pain. Pokemon medicine was extremely effective, though not perfect. Both pokemon's exterior wounds were almost completely repaired, though both were in obvious pain whether awake or asleep. It was a curious sight to Siam, but one he mostly ignored, that the glow that filled these two pokemon grew stronger when he stroked or spoke to them. Their glow's would even change; from changing to an unnameable shade of blue, to a distinctly purplish red at other times.
At times, he had to leave the room; unable to watch them in pain. Outside the pokemon centre he focus'd as much as he could on the glow he could feel in every pokemon nearby. Outside the red vested people on Mt. Pyre, Siam had not seen any human with the glow. Stilicho happily fluttered in front of him as Siam absent mindedly rubbed her back, his mind more interested in how the glow behaved, how it flowed around and through her.
- 11th August: The 22nd Day -
He stood, unflinching at the window, feet shoulder width apart and his left hand holding the wrist of his right behind his back. "You could leave" Siam heard the voice of the totem-bird behind him. "You were so resistant to them coming along in the first place" He couldn't tell if it was speaking for real, or into his mind. In either case he did not react, simply stood at the window, looking into the room. "This is ridiculous! I'm not a pokemon Trainer, this thing isn't my pokemon, it's just following me around because why not!" He shuddered lightly, watching as Antony and Lucilla cringed and twisted when the unknown liquid was sprayed on them. "That's what you said isn't it" The bird asked, tempting Siam to turn away, Siam nodded his head slowly. "You can leave, can't you?" He didn't move, for several minutes all was silence; watching the pokemon in the room toss and turn in pain. "No, I can't." He thought to himself, though he knew his thoughts were not alone. "Why not?" The people gradually left the room, the door was held for Siam to enter after all"They need me." He thought, standing over Antony's bed, the little creature looked so peaceful and quiet "There's more to it than that, isn't there."
- 13th August: The 24th Day -
Siam was racing across the sand of the Lilycove beach, both he and the Masquerain beside him trying to keep up with the purple blur cruising ahead of them. Siam slipped on the sand and skidded across on his knees, cutting his knee on a wet stone. "Mr. Taillon?" The Lilycove nurse was walking down a flight of stairs from the grasses to the beach, a leaf handed creature walking beside her. Siam looked up and smiled, he knew Antony was near, though he did not look until it leapt at him. Siam caught the Linoone in the air and let it lick his cheek happily. "We could not fix it's tail, we're not sure why." She said as the Shiftry wandered over to wrap its arms around him. Siam shrugged and watched as the nurse walked away, he couldn't move anyway for the pokemon covering him.
- 14th August: The 25th Day -
Not far from the Lilycove Harbour Siam found himself passing a small house on a rock. Slowing down to pass it, Siam noticed a man moving about inside the house. Though he did not see the man, he felt his presence, such as if it were a pokemon. Seeing no better opportunity, he pulled alongside the rock. Gently, Siam lifted Antony onto the stone, and helped Lucilla and the lizard climb up after him. As he approached the door, Siam froze; in the presence was a familiarity, somehow he already knew the man inside the house. The door opened before he was able to raise his hand to it "Siam? Siam Taillon?" The blonde man who opened the door was only a couple years older than Siam, and was happy to invite him into the small cottage. The building contained everything necessary to survive, as well as a Glass top display table, inside of which sat a collection of odd trinkets from beneath the waters. Siam smiled as he sat at the table, his old friend did always love to find things under the waves "I haven't seen you since Olivine. Jasmine said your family was moving to Littleroot" Siam nodded smiling as Antony jumped up onto his lap. Siam offered Lucilla the seat on his right, which she happily took. "You have come so far since our last lessons" The man, Damien, poured Siam a drink before sitting opposite him. "Man, I remember when you were terrified of pokemon, spent more time practising the 少林武术 than anything else" Siam chuckled silently to himself as he drank, absent mindedly stroking the fur sitting on his lap.