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_{[Yeah, and to be entirely honest... she's spent most of the last couple weeks scared in various degrees. She'd rather keep up her cheerful facade than let on that her nerves have been slowly fraying down to the last strand.]

[There's another lull before she answers. Not really out of hesitation as much as... trying to put things into words.]}

When I was little, Dad rescued me from the cult


He had to make sure they wouldn't find us again

_{[... Needless to say, if Heather's dream-world and the appearance of old foes in Johto means anything, they did find them again.]}

The whole time I was growing up, he always had to look over his shoulder

Just in case.

_{[Not that it had changed the outcome much in the end... Harry Mason, Public Enemy No. 1 in the eyes of the cult, had run out of tricks and escape routes eventually.]}