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He is in fact good at clothes. He selects things that, to the limited extent possible from the rack, end up looking like combinations a nobleman on Scadrial might wear. A very, very eccentric nobleman.

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There is a cashier, who Bella has thoughtfully asked ahead about the possibility of barter.

"I can't immediately think how I'd talk anyone into buying what you have on and moreover I'm not sure how it's supposed to be laundered, which would be first," the cashier says. "I can take some of your jewelry."
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"I can do that." Gold is the only conventionally valuable material he has on him, so he takes off a relatively large and ornate ring (the contents having been transferred to other storage, of course). "How much would you estimate this is worth here?"

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The cashier tallies up the set of clothes he's picked out, and then says, "I can give you these and four thou in change," she says.

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"It's a deal," he says.
That number is basically meaningless, but she isn't trying to cheat him unless she does this routinely.
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She rings him up. She gives him some paper money and the clothes and points him to a changing room, and takes his ring.

"Do you expect to need to be shown anything else or should I go?" asks Bella.
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"I don't think I will. Thanks for your help; the situation with Larry could have gotten a lot messier without the translation idea."

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"You're welcome - oh, one question first. Just how legendary a space human are you?"

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"Only mostly. For instance, I'm not even probably fictional."

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"I don't actually know whether I count as powerful by whatever scale you use on this planet. Does it have a name, by the way? I did lose to that flock of Murkrow, if that helps estimate, but I think I could probably win if I went in knowing they were dangerous."

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"Planet's called Earth. And they were reportedly numerous and pretty high-level for wild unevolved Murkrow, but regular humans, directly attacked like that, would've been dead, and a weak to average wild 'mon would have run off or fainted versus that many opponents. My team could take the flock, based on Larry's description, but not without casualties."

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"So I'm probably more powerful than most Pokemon, good to know.

On my world, Scadrial, there's no shortage of people who have some of the same abilities I do. I'm unique in having the complete set. And I'm not technically immortal, but am very long-lived.

I think I fit your definition of legendary relatively well, for a human."
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"How did you manage to be very long-lived, then?"

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"I'm still not sure I want to describe how my abilities work. But it's an intersection between two unrelated powers, neither of which is transferrable."

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"Damn. I will keep looking for legendary 'mon and ask them, then, I guess."

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"Where does one look for legendary 'mon? If they're in the habit of granting favors, I might need one to send me back."

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"I haven't found any yet. I'm planning to check Lake Valor next, see if I can find Azelf."

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"Hm. Is it just a list of places they're suspected to be if they exist, or are there conditions on when they'll show up? If it's the former, I can check a lake-sized area quickly."

He'll need some kind of advantage if he's to find a legendary creature in the next six hundred years, and this is the best that comes to mind.
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"The former, basically. But I've already checked Lake Verity as thoroughly as I could, so if the lake guardians exist at all they may require something I don't know about to show up."

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"Are any of the legendaries psychic? Those would probably be easier to look for."

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"Yeah, actually all three of the lake guardians are reputed to be psychic, among other legendaries, pretty common."

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"Good. And once they're found, you talk to them, throw a ball at them, or nobody's ever gotten that far?"

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"I wasn't planning to capture a legendary 'mon, unless it seemed to be obviously not as bright as they're supposed to be. It seems disrespectful. I'd try to talk to them. Some people have ambitions to capture legendaries, though, or Larry wouldn't have made such a fuss about you."

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"That explains that.
Are there any Pokemon that look like thirty-foot blue snakes with a mirror where the face should be? If so, I might not have to go looking for legendaries after all."
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