"I should probably explain my… uh… absence…" said Serena, keeping her lips close to the inner crevices of the silicone ear, keeping her voice down at a whisper. She lightly grazed her fingers over the top of the metal casing of the 3Dio, adding a light amount of resonance to mix into the light sounds of her own breathing.

Down by her knees, sprawled out across the bedsheets that covered the floor, two pages of Serena's notebook were open. They all had ideas scribbled across the pages, written in the tight, neat handwriting she was known for. The best ideas—the best explanations, rather, were highlighted on the page, and there were only a few. All of those ideas fell down under the header of 'Where have I been?'.

The notebook had a pink cover. Serena had remembered hiding it away when she wasn't writing in it, and being even more secretive about when she wrote in it—she had decided when she first bought the notebook to keep it an absolute secret from Ash and her friends, preferring to keep its mere existence completely hidden and then come up with some lie—story—about what it really was if it were ever to be discovered. She had bought it in a shop in Couriway Town, just after the showcase she had there, when she had realized it had been a whole three months since she had recorded anything for her channel. She had totally and absolutely forgotten about it, for the most part, suddenly remembering when she had to wait and was on a computer, reading through feedback on her last video. All of these ideas had come blossoming up in her mind, and she had remembered how fun it was to record those few videos. Her 3Dio and recording gear was stashed away in a closet in her home with her mother in Vaniville Town, and she had only recorded on the off-chance that she had been around home and had the chance to stay the night.

This was now the time, and Serena had practically forgotten every idea that she had thought of while wandering the Kalos region with Ash Ketchum and his trusty Pikachu. Of course, thought Serena, this was to be expected—that's why she had the notebook. The only part was that she had forgotten to read ahead of time, which was something of a fatal flaw in her security system.

"I—" Serena began, lingering in the left ear, moments before she opted to switch and go over to the ear on the right, continuing her thought there. "I've been… very… very busy…"

A lackluster start, for sure, but she had more of a lie—story—to conjure up.

"I… In my day-to-day life, I usually travel around Kal—uh—Kanto… Yeah… And, I travel with a special partner of mine, a Sylveon! And we go from gym to gym, challenging different gym leaders, trying our best until we've beaten everyone in the whole region, and thoroughly proven that we're the best of the best…!"

The lie was less to cover up her own identity, but to cover up the identity of Ash, and Bonnie, and Clemont. It was for the greater good, really, that she cover up their identities. After all, recording these videos was something of a harmless experiment, and pulling them into this small little project of hers would do them no good. It was best kept this way. Right?