"Yeah, our practical advancements in spacial warping and its implications have vastly outpaced our theoretical understanding. Having Pokemon and Apricorns around is kind of cheating, not that I ever thought of it that way before I learned some people don't."

"We do all right, for the most part. - I should let you go, I think I have enough practice with the interface now."

"Fair enough! See you at dinner."

The interface is thoroughly competent with the thousand or so most common words at this point, and with ordinary sentence structures. It needed a bit of prompting from Kellim for the specialized scientific vocabulary, but picked it up over the course of the conversation. Frank leaves; Kyeo is left with the laptop and Kellim.

He'll teach it more words.

Eventually he receives a video call request from one Dr. Waters!

With some clumsiness he figures out how to answer it. "Hello."

He's greeted by a pink-haired woman in a lab coat and makeup.

"Hi!"

"...this is Kyeo Sebe Luk."

"I'm Dr. Waters! You can call me Alyssa if you want. It's nice to meet you. You're fully human, of a previously unknown haplogroup as expected of an otherworldly visitor, and without allergies or intolerances to common ingredients."

"I don't know 'haplogroup'."

"Oh! Your ancestry, as indicated by markers on your Y-chromosome and mitochondrial DNA, isn't from any known region of our planet."

"Oh, I see, that makes sense since I'm not from this planet."

"Yeah! It's really cool! Sorry, is that culturally insensitive?"

"...observing that I'm from another planet is not culturally insensitive."

"Good! Any other burning questions about your genetics?"

"Not really, no."

"Okay! Email me if you have any questions; I'll message you as results of further testing on your samples come in. I'm alyssa dot waters at castelia dot edu."

"A moment while I figure out how to write that down, I'm new to spelling in this alphabet."

"Of course!"

"Alyssa248: alyssa.waters@castelia.edu" appears in the bottom right corner of the video chat; it can be highlighted and copy/pasted.

Oh good, then he'll do that.

"Have a great day!" says Alyssa, and she signs off. Kyeo has a few more minutes to train the translation program, but it's not long until Frank predicted the bell will ring for dinner.

He will go attend dinner, phone in hand! ...the Pokémon can stay where it is or follow him, he is not the boss of it!

Kellim follows him! She's not gonna leave him with just his phone for dinner.

Dinner is pizza! Several topping options, none of them meat. At the table are lots of people on their Pokemon journeys, most of them teenagers, a few preteens and a few people of college age. Sitting nearest Kyeo are:

the kid who ran away from him in the alley,