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Prologue Prisons / Vigils / Preludes and Nocturnes / A Warning / A Fall, Down Into the Dark Ten years ago The crowd moved as one, their finery shifting and catching the light as they followed the action across the arena, hit and counter-hit. Ferocious pulses of electricity, of darkness, of poison and acid stabbed and arced through the air, crackling off the powerful shield that protected the audience. A succession of pokémon stamped and cracked the arena floor, trading blows, feet and claws and paws leaving broad gouges in the substrate or floating above it. The trainers would have been on that floor, once; the old clan adepts had fought

III. What the Thunder Said Humans and pokémon stared as two gods rounded the corner and ordered drinks at a Goldenrod coffee shop. I had to admit, I never got tired of this. My sister Atlitzin, Queen Suicune, Lady of the Waters, licked the whipped cream off her drink. “You always were a showboat,” she muttered. “What happened to your groupies?” “Ate ‘em,” I said, and she laughed. I’d left the forest recklessly, the youngest sister, and Atlitzin had followed—not to battle, but to become a ranger-pokémon, sworn to defend humans and pokémon from criminals and monsters. She