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[Hoo boy. This gave Ted a lot of mixed feelings. Ultimately he settles on being sad like Bracken is. Time to ask some questions he's near-certain he already knows.]

"Bracken, who are you referring to?"

K-Katze.

[It dawns on him that he's never been to that treehouse. Now that certain company is no longer there, it's probably safer and more sanitary to do so. This looks to be a more intimate social visit anyway.]

"Bracken, may I come over? Would you ping me your address?"

O-Oh, I... I don't have an a-address.

...

D-Do you know where the pond is?

Eheh, there's a few of those. Was that the one we refrehsed ourselves in?

You might, ah, do what we did when we first met, if you remember that far. Just...

[If necessary, he'll explain how the "I'm here" map feature works again.]

[The device was, at least, something he had become competent with rather quickly, particularly for someone who belonged to Fayren by all looks.

After looking at the map for a bit, he pinpointed where his home should be in the woods, marking it off and sending it to Ted.]

[Poor guy; Ted doesn't know if the truth will upset him more or less than whatever Bracken's imagining now.]

Thank you; I should be along no more than half an hour from now.

[He first makes a detour to Memoria Park; a familiar and dour journey. Yep, it's just as he expected. He felt relieved, and wondered if it were bad to feel relieved. He knew all too well what Bracken would soon feel. Nonetheless, truth will out. He jogged towards Fayren next. It was strange; he'd always wanted to see the tree-house, but never had. Something about its tenants unnerved. But now he's there on his own, and it felt more sanctified for its solitude. He pondered what the appropriate manners were, before forgetting about it, having a climb, then rapping on the door. .It's a good house; pity he has little but bad news. He brought a cake tucked away in his endless bag just in case.]

Bracken? It's me, Ted. I've...something to tell you.

[It was a very quiet home, save for the eevee that was running around it now. Outside a morelull was sitting at the base of the tree, and a wurmple was sitting up on a branch, and it was clear Bracken had just put these things where he thought they belonged. It would also be clear, upon looking up and seeing bridge connecting to tree after tree, that there had been an awful lot of 'building' going on up there. Bracken had a massive amount of rooms to himself.

But, he usually stuck around one area of the home, right where the original ramp swirled up around a tree and led to his bedroom door. So it didn't take long for him to hear Ted and open up.]

H-Hi...

[He stepped back to give Ted room to come inside. It still looked the same - he hadn't cleaned out any clothing, which almost entirely consisted of things that were definitely not for Bracken. He had decent sized bed with a desk next to it, covered in sketches and art supplies. Really one of the few things that was entirely for himself.

There was something a bit sparse about it, but he wasn't much of an interior decorator. He had what furniture he needed and little else.]

Wh-What is it?

[No doubt about it, it's a neat place. If Ted ever got married, he'd want something just like it. But he's not in the mood to enjoy it properly. Such is the overcast gloom that turned the world gray. He hardly notices the pokemon clambering about.

Let's sit down here.

[He motions to the bed, inviting Bracken to sit down beside him. He wants to say this right this time, with no room for ambiguities.] Bracken...Katze's gone from the world. He hasn't rejected you; rather, the world's rejected him. I'm sorry.

[He didn't understand why, but he didn't argue it, going and sitting on the edge of his bed.

Leave it to Ted to say things in a flowery way that would go over his head. Pursing his lips, he furrowed his brows.]

D-Did he go somewhere? Do... Do I need to go get him?

[Darn, he kept it short and it was still overdoing it. He'll have to really simplify things as best he can.]

"He's gone away from here, at any rate. Listen, Bracken. By now you're...probably familiar with how sometimes people just...disappear from Genessia, right? That's what happened now."

[Not the gentlest way to put it, but for now he's focused on clarity.]

[He stayed quiet for a moment, glancing down at the ground. There was no explanation for how or why people would disappear. Airy had gone away, and he hadn't felt too awful. She got to go back home and maybe she was happy there.

He kind of wanted to find a way to fix the problem, and he was trying to work out what he could do. He'd have to talk to Arro, who he would likely also discover had disappeared.]

D-Do you think he wanted to go away?

[Not the reaction he expected, though Ted was using himself as a standard of comparison. If it was someone he knew that he'd grown so close to, he'd burst into tears on the spot. But Bracken wasn't that emotional. Like he was more disappointed than anything approaching mourning. Of course, he considers Katze a noxious influence that the world, especially Bracken, is much better off without. But even so...he couldn't help but think something inhuman was going on. He's puzzled about this so long that there's a long pause before he answers Bracken's question.]

"...Oh, um. That's...possible, I suppose. 'Incompatible' is the official phrase, though what standard and how one failed to meet it can only be guessed."

[It was, perhaps, different because Bracken had always had different expectations. He was more withdrawn than forward, quietly contemplating what this meant. It was a matter of what Katze wanted before he disappeared. Bracken didn't know if he wanted to stay or he wanted to leave. He shuffled his feet idly for a moment, staring down.

When he finally spoke his tone was despondent, lacking energy.]

I-I always knew he would leave, b-but... But I thought he would t-tell me, first.

[And he wasn't positive if this was the case. Maybe Katze hadn't decided to leave yet.]

Arro... M-Maybe Arro knows more about t-teleporting now, so I could ask him.

"You always knew?"

[Strangest thing he's heard yet. Did Bracken have some sixth sense for who would remain or perish in the world? A mystic prescience?]

"Mm, no, if it is a deciison, it's not a conscious one."

[He spoke from experience there. And now he has to drop a double-dose of bad news. The words are out of his mouth before he has time to consider.]

"I'm sorry, Bracken. Arro shares the same fate. He's gone too."

[He seemed a bit more surprised by that one.]

A-Arro went away?

[He'd been invested in his research and the future possibility of teleporters. Without that, he didn't know how they were going to travel between worlds. He frowned, looking down again, and taking a moment for himself.]

...

I... I always knew h-he'd get bored of me and leave, but I-I thought we'd still be friends.

[The normal, supportive thing, Ted thought, would be to deny and reaffirm. "No, no, it wasn't like that at all. 'Twas all genuine and heartfelt." Thing is, he can't say that with any confidence. He didn't know Katze very well, and what he did know wasn't good. Bracken was a far better authority. If he thought Katze was that kind of person, who was he to argue? It sounds like something he would do. Well, if you don't have something nice to say, for now it's probably better to say nothing.]

"Yes, Arro is...gone."

[That was harder to say because Ted was personally wounded by that one. He didn't know Arro terribly well, but there was one moment where each risked their lives for the other, and shared secrets. And now, it seemed nothing might come of that bond. He'd just got done talking to Sonico about the same man.]

"Heh, sorry. For all my words, I'm not...quite sure what the right thing to say is." [So he'll try for something more visceral and put a hand on Bracken's shoulder, giving an assuring squeeze.]

"For what it's worth, I'm still here and always will be for you, and I don't see that changing anytime soon. Is there anything I can do, Bracken? You need only ask."

[Honestly, the hardest part was the not knowing. He didn't really have answers, so while he was okay with the fact that Katze would leave him one day, he didn't know if that was the case. He would be fine with Katze returning home and being happy, but he didn't know if he'd be happy at home.

And Arro was gone... All this time he had the ability to make a crystal that he could teleport to and he'd held back, expecting Arro to figure it out without it. Now he was gone and there weren't any teleporters yet. He couldn't get to Katze's world, and he couldn't get to Arro's world.

It still pained him to think of giving up where he'd placed his crystal, knowing that he would never be able to get there again if he put it somewhere else, but now he wished he done it so Arro could have figured out how to make the teleporters. Had it been selfishness on his part? To just leave everything up to Arro. As much as it pained him, he wished now that he'd given up his passport to heaven, or purgatory, or hell or wherever it was.

It stung. As much as he was expecting the loss, he didn't expect it to happen like this. His eyes started to feel warm and moist.

After a moment he shook his head. There wasn't anything Ted could do to fix this. Maybe if Bracken had taken other actions sooner things would have been different, but he didn't see any way to correct this now. Taking in a harsh sniff, he rubbed his eyes with the back of his hand.]

I-it's okay. I'm used to l-living alone.

[If Bracken had confessed any of these otherworldly motives to him, he'd have waved it away as being all silly vanity. Genessia had a pretty firm grip on people from all over the universe; by now it seemed plain that it had no intentions of letting anyone off of it. To hang your hopes on something so contrary to the design of things just struck him as so much futility.]

"Heh, well being used to it is one thing, liking it is another. Come on, there must be something. Chores that need doing, branches that need trimming. Have you eaten yet?"

[Ted couldn't shake the feeling that Bracken's feelings were just plain odd. Granted, everyone grieves differently, but it seemed like he wasn't grieving period. As though he simply hadn't taken it in yet, and may never. Or, perhaps Ted's the dramatic one, likening each disappearance to death itself and acting in accordance with that. Some distant, disaffected childishness or simplicity seemed to hang around it. But he'll put psychological puzzlement aside for a moment to try and be as comforting, if officious, as he can. He wants to get better as this whole business, and you don't do that by simply leaving people alone, right?]

[Perhaps, at home, he'd been used to it in a different way. He'd lived alone, and he hadn't minded so much.

It was a little different here. He had lived with someone and lost them. He'd never lost anyone at home. He'd made sure of it. Despite being completely used to single living, it felt disquieting. He glanced around but there wasn't anything he particularly needed. He didn't have a lack of any necessities, and didn't have any problem getting things done as he needed them. For all his troubles, he was fairly good at taking care of his day to day living.

Which just sort of left him there. With nothing in particular to do. He shook his head quietly - there was nothing that needed done. It wasn't necessarily a good thing, to have too much time to think.

Pushing off the edge of the bed, he grabbed his staff, head hung for a moment. He felt like absorbing himself in something, but he wasn't sure what. After a moment of seemingly staring at the ground, he swiped his hand across his eyes again and muttered.]

I... I think I'm going to go h-hunting.

"Ah, do you want comp-"

[But then he feels like he knows the answer before he asks. Bracken's a straightforward sort. If he wanted company, he'd have said as much. It seemed he was the sort who needed time alone and solitude in these matters. Ted felt dispirited and powerless to do much about the depressing air, and was left only with the one reassurance he always gave. It didn't feel like enough."

"er, just...know that we can always talk, all right? Any hour will do."

[Taking a deep breath, he nodded.

But just before he started to head out, another thought came into his mind. Ted hadn't been to his home before, had he...?

He tried to think about it, tried to remember, but he couldn't think of a time.]

Oh... I... S-Sorry I didn't show you around th-the house. You... You can look if you want.

[He laughed, as inappropriate as that might have been. Going from would-be comforter to neglected guest was a strange appointment. He smiled and took it in stride.]

"Thank you, Bracken. I think I will have a look around. It's such a lovely home; I feel impoverished for having denied my eyes so long. You enjoy wild woods and I'll enjoy tamed woods."

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[He gave a firm couple of nods.]

Y-You can look as much as you want.

[It was actually a pretty big place now, after all. Bridges from tree to tree, many bedrooms with little more than sparse furniture or sometimes empty save for a drawing of the person it was meant to belong to, a fairly nice kitchen, even a pretty big bath attached to the room from this very bedroom. So long as someone had magic to run it all, it was actually a pretty nice little place. And since magic came as natural as breathing and pooping to Bracken, it was perfect for him.

The only major thing of note, since most of the rooms were close to empty, was the pictures themselves since some of the people in the pictures had animal traits.]

I-I'll see you later.

[As much as he felt obligated to stay to show Ted around, he also just needed to get out. And blow things up. At the very least it was going to be a very productive day of hunting.]

[Like usual, Ted wanders around and tries to enjoy it. Whatever pokemon are there he'll try and befriend. He looks for a fridge, or something along those lines, out of sight of said pokemon and somewhere Bracken's likely to notice. If he finds something along those lines, he'll drop off the cake he'd forgotten to mention with a note:]

Dear Bracken
Sorry I couldn't be of much use to you; hopefully this will be more comforting. Should you ever want to talk, feel free to call me at any hour. Goodness knows I've been through the same kind of thing many times. May you go under the Mercy.

[Fai gets this 100%. He had something pretty much like this happen over a year ago... Although it still hadn't been something he ever really brought up, but what the hell, if it helps it helps.]

Depends on how well you knew them. If they had come home often normally then usually not very long. Usually it's best to check the device if one gets worried when they go over how long they usually take to find out.

Then it usually hurts afterwards. That I cannot tell you how long it would be.

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U-Uusually he comes home every day. I... I keep the house w-warm enough for him.

[Just one of the little chores he did. Katze had always been far more susceptible to the cold than him.]

I-I've tried calling but he doesn't answer.

So his actual contact information is still there? Usually if they have gone you wouldn't even be able to call them since there name would no longer be listed.

[Maybe there is some hope. Who knows, really.]

[He paused, but shook his head. He had been trying manually.]

H-His clothes are still here.

Yeah...objects don't usually leave, just the stuff on them and if they had pokemon, they would go as well.

[A pause for a moment.]

Want to talk about it in person?

I... I think...

[He fell silent for a moment.]

Is there anything y-you could do about it?

I didn't know you had a partner. Are you sure he's ignoring you? Maybe something happened to him?

H-His name is Katze. He usually comes h-home at night, but he hasn't for a f-few days and he's not answering me.

I see. That's odd. Did he worked somewhere? His co-workers might know where he is.

I-I think he went through a f... a few jobs. But.... But he always came home.

You could try to contact Cad Bane. He's a bounty hunter and he's good at finding people. Just make it clear that you want your boyfriend back alive.

[He thought about it, but nodded.]

I-I will, if I don't find him.

Sorry that I can't be of more help, Bracken.

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I-It's okay. I'm... I'm not sure there would be a-anything you could do.

Maybe not but...if you need company or to talk to somebody I am always available.

Th-Thanks. I'll try to remember.

[Because though he wanted to say he would, he knew himself better than that and was afraid he couldn't keep that promise.]

I'm sure he'll come home soon! Maybe he's just planning a surprise for you?

[ Even she doesn't look convinced at her words. ]

O-or maybe something happened..?

P-People say he's gone.

[Somehow he managed to get through saying that all right, but there was a definite lack of energy involved.]

Gone where? On a journey?

[Colette no.]

Have you tried talking to a Guardian about it? I think they're supposed to help with this kind of stuff. Or maybe I could try to find him? I could fly over the cities and see if I spot him.

Th-They said back to his world. H-He's... not coming back.

[At the very least he understood that clearly.]

O-oh.

[So he’s really super gone.]

Well, that’s a good thing, right? That he can be back home with his friends and family? And it means that he didn’t want to leave you. Maybe once we find a way home we can find a way for you to visit him?

[She’s doing her darndest over here to make this as positive as it can be.]

I-I'm not sure he had family...

[Or a ton of friends. Which was weird, Katze seemed so outgoing.]

You... You think we could still find a, a way to get to him?

Oh, that's too bad.

[ Her smile falters a little; she has no idea if it's possible. But if there's one thing she's learned on her journey, it's that nothing is impossible. ]

Yeah, I think so! It might not be easy or happen right away, but there has to be a way, I just know it!

M-Maybe...

If... If I can see him again, th-then I can ask him if he wanted to go.

[Though he'd been fine with his arrangement, he did always believe Katze would leave him one day. If Katze wanted to leave, he would accept that. But he still wanted to know.]

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