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Driftveil Entrance: Azucena

Team Plasma were going to kill her. The amount of Duckletts being grilled today alone would put a target on her head if they found out. Azucena hadn't realized how much they'd gone through until this thought occurred.

Luckily before she could feel any sort of fear, Moze arrived. "I have no idea." She turned to face him, looking both happy and tired. Customer service got harder the more you did it. She kept trying to avoid using the same phrases over and over again as they started to sound fake, but it didn't help. It was hard to let someone know you were happy they were giving you money when you spent the day being handed money, saying thank you over and over again.

"Maybe Azucena's Outdoor Grill?" She looked over at K-Rok who gave her the thumbs down.

"Right. Then I have no idea."

Bacon's nose took them on a pretty weird route, that eventually wound up on Route 6. The pokemon led the way up it, with wild adventures and battles unfolding, often with other Pokemon while Bacon held the scent. These, of course, were nowhere near as crazy as Sal's, but the remains of her travels were to be seen.

Fortunately, he didn't have to travel the whole route before Robby spotted Salieri floating back along the route, following the river's current on some kinda raft. The obese lad paused a moment, very specifically remembering seeing rocks, and briefly let the question come to mind of how good Sal was at rafting.

The thought was ignored, and Robby turned, following at about the same speed the raft traveled, and called to it. "Hey Sally! Y'ain't doin' anythin' crazy, are ya?"

"I'm Azucena." She walked over to where Moze had seated himself and made a gesture toward her stock. "Can I get you anything while you're waiting, sir?"

Driftveil Entrance: Moze

"Ah, sorry." Compared to some other names he had heard, Azucena wasn't that farfetched. Moze looked to where Azucena pointed. It wasn't a wide selection, and his vegetarianism limited him even more. But he'd still stick around to eat what she was cooking.

"May I please have some water?" Starting dinner now would mean less room in his stomach for when Salieri arrived. "...do you have vegetarian options?"

Route 6: Salieri

"Um..." Technically, she only planned on confronting one pirate, even if he did have a small army of pirates at his disposal. And technically, she'd really be pissing off Clay and not the government at large. It was her battle, not something that she'd involve the rest of the Legends Crew with. The last thing she needed was for someone to berate her for going gung-ho. "...no?"

Sal took one big step to get onto dry land. The raft kept going downstream, and would eventually fall apart when it hit enough rocks and rapids. She dusted off her pants and looked up to Robby.

"Why? You think I'm about to do something crazy, don't you?" she asked with a slightly accusing tone. "Because I'm the loose cannon. Of course. Everybody thinks I'm addicted to fighting or something. I do other things too."

She huffed in annoyance, thinking back to Henrietta's rant. Her eyes wandered down to the books tucked under her arm, and she tacked on, "And I didn't steal these, either."

Now Sal wished she hadn't jumped off that raft. If she had gone farther downstream, she could have gotten to the harbor and made her way all around to the Basculin Bowl without being spotted by anybody she knew.

Wow girl, that's a little extreme. Salieri didn't feel like anyone would understand her plight. The familiar feeling of persecution and exclusion because of something about herself she couldn't control, it was true that it drove her. But there was something else to it, something more personal.

She sighed and furrowed her brow at Robby. There was no use lying to him. The boy was like an empath sometimes. Maybe it was because of his mastery when it came to understanding flavors. Or something like that. C'mon Sal, quit thinking like Moze.

"It's not stupid," Sal told him as they kept walking, getting closer to town. Fortunately, there was no gate at the north end of Driftveil, which meant no long check-in. "Just a little revenge. That's something I've got to do myself. So 'we' don't need to worry about anything, alright?"

Robby frowned. Revenge didn't seem like something worth it. Especially considering it could possibly get her killed, if it was one of those things where you challenge someone. Which seemed like the sort of thing Sal might do.

"Sounds stupid to me." The lad replied simply, deciding to be straightforward with how he felt about revenge. Even "a little." "I mean, 'snot like I gotta do anythin' else. Unless WL's doin' somethin' stupid too. If ya really wanna do it all yourself, I c'n just stay to make sure you don't get yourself killed."

But he was going along. That much was pretty much certain in his mind. After all, someone had to make sure people were responsible. And that hopefully meant he wouldn't have to be checking on TK, Henrietta, or Wayne at that exact moment.

Robby stared normally back into Sal's eyes when she glared at him. He wasn't exactly aware that she was testing his mettle, but it seemed like the right thing to do when she glared.

"Alright, I won't tell anyone." He said after a moment of what would look like considering the offer, and then would proceed to follow Sally to her destination. "Just don't start killin' people."

"Yeah, go for it," Azucena said as she hurried off.