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Her team was gone. Instead, one single Poké Ball sat in her bag, unlabeled, its texture like polished bone.

She stood in Mesagoza, but the city was wrong. The crystal-clear sky of Paldea was a perpetual, bruised twilight. The NPCs didn’t move. They just turned their heads slowly to watch her, their smiles painted on, eyes reflecting the violet glow of her phone screen. Pokemon Scarlet -0100A3D008C5C800--v262144--US-...

“The zero is not a zero,” she whispered. Her team was gone

“It’s a mouth,” it corrected. “And you just walked into it.” Her team was gone. Instead

Her real body back in her chair went limp. The last thing she saw on the screen was her character turning to face her through the fourth wall. Her character raised a hand— her hand—and waved.