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Soooo...I woke up in Goldenrod City today.

Last time I checked I was in Ecruteak, getting ready for my gym battle. Does anyone know what happened? Did I fall asleep for a week or something? I mean, who would go through all the trouble of bringing me back here anyway? As far as I know, Minnie's still in Olivine....

Right. So, did anyone else wake up somewhere they weren't supposed to be today?

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What? No, that's nasty, dude.

[Apollo's not sure he'll ever understand all of this conversation.]

Maybe they'll make good fuel for a fire.

[He shrugs and starts putting the things back in his bag. He points at the books and PokéGear still on the ground.]

You said one of these has a "map", right?

[*cough* Getting back on track with this thread after that entertaining interlude.]

Oh, right. Yeah, your Gear has one. It's like this- [Holds up his own.] You do have one, right?

Yeah. [Holds it up, the screen showing the main menu with all the functions including "Map" clearly labeled.]

I couldn't have talked to you without one.

Well, at least you figured that part out. Look, see that icon there? That's the map.

Spearow showed me, but it was the only thing he knew how to do.

[He presses the icon and... a screen of labeled lines and boxes appears. The idea of a symbolic depiction of reality isn't one he's familiar with.]

How's this supposed to help?

It's a map, see? That little blinking icon is where you are.

[Apollo looks at it for a while. The look of confusion on his face doesn't leave. He doesn't see the relationship between the map and reality.]

This doesn't look anything like where I've been so far. [He points to Goldenrod on the map.] We aren't in a red rectangle, we're in a city.

Yeah, it's just a symbol for the city.

What's a symbol?

Ugh, seriously? Okay, it's a marker. Like...breaking twigs and branches of trees in the forest so you know the path through, right?

Only bastards damage trees because they're too stupid to pay attention to the paths that are already there.

So it shows where a certain place is? A city's a pretty big place to have only one marker for.

[Just think, Danny, all this work explaining things and all you'll get out of it is an offer of underwear and Killua wondering if he should gag you.]

Not everyone was raised by wolves and bears, dude.

It's just an icon. Besides, where I'm from this isn't even half as big as some of the bigger cities.

Doesn't mean they should damage nature just because it's convenient.

A lot of the markers on the map look the same. What places do they mark?

Other cities. Didn't your grandpa teach you to read?

He tried to teach me but it didn't seem interesting. I just let him read all his books to me and teach me the important stuff from them.

Well, the markers are labeled with the names of the cities. See, this one's Goldenrod.

[He looks at the word "Goldenrod" on the map for a few moments, trying to commit the shape to memory. He might be able to remember a few of the names, but he wants to know what all the locations are. He probably won't be able to remember all of them. What to do, what to do... Wait, hadn't he seen something else that looked like this "map" thing?

He reaches for the Trainer Handbook and flips through it until he finds the paper copy of the map and pulls out the pen from his bag. He'd encountered the idea of "taking notes" here before, and had done a bit of it working at the PokéCenter in Cherrygrove, writing down the order of numbers with ticks beside each of them so he would know which number each symbol went to. He finds where Goldenrod is on the paper map and draws a crude image of a goldenrod plant over it, not that anyone besides him would be able to tell what it's supposed to be. He points to another marker.]

What's this one say?

[He'll do the same sort of thing for all of them. Feel free to skip ahead to the end unless you really want to write the whole thing out.]

[Danny will help you label all the cities, cause he's cool like that.]

We done now?

[Apollo puts his stuff away.]

I think that was everything I needed you for, unless there's anything else I need to know to get around.

I think you've got it, well, the basics.

That's good.

[He stands.]

You were helpful, explaining all that.

No sweat. Hope it sticks.

[There's a brief pause before he gets the metaphors.]

Once I've walked the paths I'll remember how to get places.

That's cool.

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