#(cynthia just doing league boss things...and trying to be normal about the cool fossil she found LMAO)

[avacynthia]

@rockheadcd // monthly check-in continued from here!!

[sms: Cynthia] Excellent, I'll see you later this afternoon. Best of luck in your battles today.

[sms: Cynthia] The Amber will be our little secret until you can see it for yourself, of course. Restoration isn't out of the question, but I'll let you be the judge of that once you look it over.

[sms: Cynthia] This specimen requires an expert's appreciation, after all.

And with those parting texts fired off, Cynthia officially sets the rest of her travel day into motion: a quick stop at the Resort Area villa to clean up, followed by a long-overdue visit to Sinnoh's industrious mining town. (With the fossil securely wrapped and stored in her jet-black carrying bag, the champion can't help but feel excited for later--Roark's enthusiasm is certainly contagious!)

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The Oreburgh Gym Leader is in the thick of battle with an upstart challenger when Cynthia casually sweeps into the craggy establishment, a smile already on her lips as she takes in the action. Despite the League limiting the levels of his Gym-sanctioned team, Roark's penchant for battling is on full display, as always. (That Cranidos can pack a serious punch...)

The young trainers sitting in the arena's humble stands try their best to play it cool, but--the champion is visiting here, oh my gosh--many fail to hide their starstruck expressions. Cynthia offers all of them a courteous wave and nod before making her usual check-in rounds, scanning the Gym's dusty perimeter and peeking into Roark's...cluttered office.

By the time she's done with her quick evaluation, the Gym battle is reaching its conclusion as well. Cynthia takes a seat with the rest of the audience, watching with rapt, invested attention as the match reaches its climax. Even now, this battle--and the intensity and skill informing it--makes her veins thrum with electricity, her fingers instinctively twitching towards her own Pokemon belt. God.

This feeling, this thrill...it never gets old.