Hi again! So this didn't go exactly according to plan, but this should add a little more spice to the inevitable battle coming up.
Poke-Ball 21: Lysis
Erika walked among the graves. It was surprisingly easy to blend in here. With her ash-white kimono, floppy frayed straw hat, and the scarlet sash around her waist, she looked like yet another of the many channelers roaming Lavender Tower. If only her hair was a little longer. Oh well.
She hid her face with a dust mask, and other people avoided her. They needed to. Erika knew she was sick. Just because it wasn't a physical malady didn't mean she wasn't contagious, or dangerous. Her heart's lack of pain wasn't a sign of her healing, but of something breaking.
She glanced out the small window, where a small garden bloomed outside. That was where she laid the ashes of her lost Pokemon, not here. Let them nourish the earth, rather than be sealed in caskets. It was a sad necessary to trap Pokemon in Pokeballs, but to keep them imprisoned after death was pointlessly cruel. For this reason she actually hated Lavender Tower. Trainers trampled over their Pokemon's graves chasing after the Ghost-type Pokemon lured here. It was the only reason many Trainers came at all. What was supposedly sacred ground was just another tourist trap. Meanwhile, the human victims of the last war were scattered in the far reaches of Kanto, where only the knowledgeable would find them.
However, Erika wasn't here because she liked it. She was here because it was the perfect backdrop to teach Red about life and its not-so-welcome counterpart. Had he ever lost a Pokemon, she wondered. She had lost several, and not just from the fire. Some died from battles, some died from rot diseases peculiar to plant Pokemon, and some left to scout and never came back.
The thoughts of all her deceased Pokemon suddenly weighed heavily on Erika. She had lost so many Pokemon over the years, and she missed all of them. Now she only had her Vileplume on her belt and a few wild Pidgey. She had forsaken what little she had left by abandoning both her position and Team Rocket. Yet only now did she realize how alone she was, an empty thing collapsing from within.
Spirits rushed to fill that void, and for a moment, Erika felt better.
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Btw, Lysis can mean two things. It can either be the breakdown of a biological cell, or the lessening of symptoms in a disease. I tried to cover both possible definitions, even if one had to be more symbolic than the other. Did it work?