She stood in Mesagoza, but the city was wrong. The crystal-clear sky of Paldea was a perpetual, bruised twilight. The NPCs didn’t move. They just turned their heads slowly to watch her, their smiles painted on, eyes reflecting the violet glow of her phone screen.
Her team was gone. Instead, one single Poké Ball sat in her bag, unlabeled, its texture like polished bone. Pokemon Scarlet -0100A3D008C5C800--v262144--US-...
And somewhere in Paldea, buried beneath the desert sands of Asado, a new “zero” appeared on a rocky wall. It looked like a bite mark. She stood in Mesagoza, but the city was wrong