In the day as they walked along the shore of Sweetwater Sea, there was a haze of heat in the distance, and they walked toward it. She told the shedding-skin woman, "Now, the wives went across the Sweetwater Sea, but sweet waters are all ringed by land. And what sort of great hunter would the great hunter be, if he would give up so easily? So he travels around the lake. He gets up to this and that, quite a lot really. He finds no sign of his wives for some time and, in a rage, he spears a sealiognite (15) who cannot flee because she is birthing her child. Back then they were of the water and the plants, but the blood runs down the sand and stains the rest of the sealiognite, kindles a fiery fury inside them, such that now they're of fire and water instead."

And the shedding-skin woman looked at the sealiognite barking and crying together on the shore with longing, but she said, "I never kindled."

"Haven't I a greater claim to your bones?" the lycanroc demanded that night. "You told your pet. When lycanroc and human no longer hunt together, we hunt each other."

Sundown said, "Our peoples will hunt together when this is done," though she knew that was not what he meant.

"I'm no longer a rockruff." (16)

"I know."


15) Based on the scrapped GS beta pokemon, bomushikaa (bomb + ashika, sea lion). Sealiognite: sea lion + gelignite, an explosive.

16) Dingo are better considered "tame" than "domestic". Like many wild animals, they can retain family bonds they make as puppies but will not make new ones as adults.