<sub>[Heather nods, slowly. It... it is, isn't it.]

[A very long time.]</sub>

Yeah, like I said, it's... home.

I never wanna leave.

_{[She knows she's no more immune to being yanked back out of here than anyone else, but... god, she hopes it never happens.]}

Even if everyone else I knew did, my Pokemon alone are just... I can't imagine life without them anymore, you know?

_{[EVEN THOUGH SHE DOESN'T HAVE ANY OUT WITH HER RIGHT THIS SECOND... she'd set out with the intention of time to herself, even if it hadn't wound up that way.]}