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591. nepotism: showing favoritism to relatives
Green carefully navigated the ladders out of the cavern. By the time he got outside, it was around eleven, and the sky outside was bitingly dark and cold and fresh. He took care to release Gyarados quietly in the inlet and to keep his face hidden as he quickly strode to the pokecenter. Although he was probably going a bit overboard in thinking that fanboys would still be out for his blood, it never hurt to be careful.
He arrived at the pokecenter and found it empty. The nurse gave him a curious glance as he speedily walked into the bathroom and relieved himself. On his way out, he paid for a couple magazines to pass the time in the cave, and haphazardly bought a whole box of small tarts and cakes and breads from the small bakery next door. He quietly hummed as he walked back to cross the inlet.
Green had studied some of Professor Oak's papers (no, he did not ask for the professor's nepotism, he actually bought the published magazines) and come to the conclusion that although psychics had extremely high levels of intelligence for pokemon, it was far from the human brain capacity; well, not far, but extremely different. Their IQ's were extraordinarily high, and when it came to maths and sciences they had proved extremely proficient. But when it came to ethics and morals, they did not share human emotions. However, open talking with Mewtwo, the pokemon seemed just as capable as, if not more capable than humans when it came to feeling emotions.
592. extant: currently or actually existing
He tried to recall the last EQ tests the professor had taken. He was positive that they'd done research on psychic type brains, but after the works were published it was dubious as to whether the original papers were still extant. Thinking back, Green could recall that somewhere in that research he'd jotted down something interesting in the margins; of course, he could remember that it was on the right side of the paper with an image of a the MRI scan of an abra's brain, but he could not recall what the heck he'd written down.
It was so frustrating how silly details recorded themselves while the meaningful things just floated off.
593. scathing: very harsh in something, like a remark
In his musings, he bumped into an old lady, who muttered something surprisingly scathing and inappropriate, before glancing up at Green's face.
"You little sonuva- oh hey sweetie pie, watch where you're going!"
"...Sorry miss." Green pursed his lips a little. It was a bit of a stretch to be calling her a miss. She looked seventy.
The old lady laughed, or more like wheezed with a smile. "Hoh-hoh-hoh. A young man with manners, I like it! I was just out on a night walk, and this redhead barrels into me and calls me an old geezer, not even an old lady, and then charges off! Kids, oh my. Well, good night, pay a little more attention to what's around you!"
"...Alright." Green dipped his head a little in a tiny bowing gesture before hurrying on off. Old ladies had frightening tempers.
594. sequel: something that follows
He sharply turned a corner and nearly had a sequel with a grumpy geezer. Green swerved out of the way just in time to avoid another collision. What was it with all these old people popping up close to midnight? Did a hags and geezers bar just open or something?
595. capricious: erratic; tending to change abruptly
Gyarados grumbled a little as he plopped into the inlet again. Green had the strangest, capricious schedule; he slept whenever he could, and screwed up his pokemon's sleep cycles. Gyarados dipped his head into the water and blew bubbles as he swam. A juvenile quirk, but his way of sulking. Some water accidentally got in his mouth, and he grimaced and reared up. Eck, sea water.
"Whoa Gyara, calm down!" Green saved a flying magazine and patted Gyarados' back. The serpentine pokemon sighed, and then resumed swimming to the little land platform outside the cave.
596. headstrong: showing determination
Green let out Umbreon, who had earlier been too sleepy to go trotting around the city and had recalled herself to go with Green (some girl with common sense had to keep an eye on the headstrong trainer). She stretched out on the small grassy area, and her golden rings seemed to glow for a second in a passing beam of moonlight, which was soon obscured by a cloud.
597. ebullient: in high spirits; boiling or seeming to boil
Back in the cave, it was still deafeningly quiet; the placid inlet waters outside seemed like raging, ebullient waves in comparison to the perfectly still waters of the cave. The silence seemed especially strong - when he'd left and entered during other times, there was at least the occasional rustling of a golbat wing or a quiet buzz of a magneto, but now it was just painfully quiet.
598. confound: to mix up or lump together indiscriminately; to confuse
Green rolled up the magazines and stuffed them in his bag so he'd have one free hand to help him in navigating the dimly lit cavern. The cave's crystals did a great job amplifying his light, but when he wasn't directly coming into contact with them, he felt like the whole place was just a beautiful, surreal, and dreamlike place. Also, the lights seemed to form hallucinations at times, and it was confounding when he came to a fork in the path and the lights were just blinding and floating everywhere.
599. ominous: threatening harm; showing evil
There is quite a big difference between peaceful silence and ominous silence, and right now Green's nerves were fraying as wild pokemon stared at him in an unsettling matter without actively challenging him. What in the world could've caused this sudden change in atmosphere?
600. offset: to balance or counteract
To offset the gloominess, Green began singing quietly as he made his way back to Mewtwo. It was a pop song by a girl singer, and although the chorus and most of the lyrics were well in his voice range, he had no hope of reaching the extraordinarily high pitched notes. But nobody said he couldn't try, so he was soon trying to screech in tune. Tough stuff.