The Vast White Pokemon

“Urk, no, let me try again.” Odette shifted her feet and flared her feathers once more.

“Hmm… I’m getting… Oh, I got it, angry Rufflet.” Gaffi offered half a smile to go with their guess.

“No! Here, how about this?” She tried to stand regally and make her wings more armlike. “Now imagine—okay bear with me—imagine my tail is actually all white and on fire, and I have fur instead of feathers, and these feathers on my head are really long. And also on fire.”

“What, so… Swanna if it were a dragon type…?”

“YES!” Odette flapped erratically. “Yes! Close! Dual-type though, dragon and fire.”

“Ah. You should have led with that,” Gaffi said through a yawn. “Now we’re one step closer, but not close enough. What else can you tell me?”

“Alright, let’s see… Well… it’s all white, I mentioned that. Its eyes are blue—scary blue, I’ll never forget them. And… Oh, if only I could—hey wait! Verdigris! Get over here!”

Verdigris’s head snapped up guiltily and she shuffled over. “Hey,” she said.

“Hello. I need you to telepathically project an image from my mind into Gaffi’s, please.”

“Wow. Good afternoon to you too, Odette.” She frowned. Odette looked to Gaffi for help, but Gaffi was frowning as well.

“Yeah, I dunno. On the one hand it’d be helpful, but on the other it seems irresponsible to ask a fellow psychic type to act as a tool for you…hrm…” Gaffi floated to Verdigris. “Your call, I say.”

“What are you guys even talking about?” Verdigris took a step back and peered up at Odette.

“She’s trying to describe a pokemon to me. Nebby is heading into Ultra Space soon and Odette wants to meet this mysterious figure.”

“Oh…which one?”

Odette interjected. “It’s called Reshiram. It has—”

“Oh! I know that one. Here, Gaffi—” Verdigris closed their eyes and held a palm out to Gaffi, no doubt projecting an image to their mind.

“Ah, so that Reshiram! That’s what I suspected, but Odette was making it hard to tell~” Gaffi turned to Odette. “The ‘Vast White’ pokemon, right?”

“That’s the one.”

“You should have led with that too. Here, come on, let’s go.” They floated off without waiting for the other two to follow. They shared a look—Odette’s eyes twinkled, Verdigris was still scowling—and eventually ran off after Gaffi.