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B) Stay with Jude and get to know her a little more
D) It's pretty late, time to sleep

You sit down on the floor, Pumpkaboo sits by your side. You look over to Shinx, he's finished eating and is staring at you and Pumpkaboo. You stare back, Shinx turns his head and lays on its side, its back facing you.
"Guess that'll take some time." you say to yourself.
"Did you say something?" Jude asks as she reposition ls herself to see you better.
"Oh, no, just uh talking to myself." there's an awkward silence.

"So Jude, if you don't mind me aski-?"
"Why would someone who's afraid of pokemon become a Pokmon doctor?"
"I'm guessing you get that question a lot."
"Every day since I was nine." Jude fakes a laugh.
"It's cool if you don't want to talk about it."
"No no, it's a legitimate question." she takes a deep breath. "It started when I was seven. I was at my friends Jane's house and she wanted to play in the woods. We'd been there dozens of times before, but never on our own, our parents wouldn't allow it. My brother usually went with us but he got called out of town due to an epidemic in New Wave City."
" Your brother is a doctor too? " Jude grows quiet.
" Yeah, he was a Pokmon doctor. "

"We went into the woods and lost track of time, we had no idea a storm was coming. It was night time and we were lost in the rain." her voice cracks. "We were tired and scared, all we wanted was to get home. We wandered around for what seemed like hours. Eventually we got too tired to walk and found a cave to wait out the storm. I fell asleep by the entrance, but Jane wandered further into the cave. I woke up to her screams. A search party heard her screaming and found us in the cave. Jane was in critical condition, it was an Ursaring. The Ursaring didn't do anything wrong, just a mother protecting her young."
"What happened to Jane?"
"She lost the use of her legs, partial paralysis in her left arm, her face was unrecognizable. She passed away a few years later." Jude wipes away her tears. "I know that what happened that night was an accident and that we can trust pokemon, but it's hard to look at them and not remember that night."
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