"Sure, why not? Any other cool places you can think of in that direction?" 

"Ooh, good question. The Weather Institute is interesting, and Fortree City is really pretty, both continuing north along route 119. Continuing a good ways east from Fortree, Mt. Pyre is awesome, and the Safari Zone is pretty cool."

"I'm assuming Mt. Pyre is a volcano?"

"Actually, no! It's a mountain dedicated to the spirits of those who've passed, especially pokémon, and it's one of the best places in Hoenn to find ghost-type pokémon."

She throws a smile over her shoulder and continues, "The volcano is Mt. Chimney."

"Ghost-type pokemon? Why are they called that? Are souls real here? I have SO many questions. Can they turn insubstantial?" 

Sable bounces in place as she walks. "Yeah! Ghost-types! They're so cool. Most of them can turn insubstantial, and the ones that can't are pretty heavily themed around being something haunted so that I don't think they'd separate from their thing well. I'm pretty sure souls are real; there are occasional rumors of ghost pokémon that used to be trainers. I think, if I wasn't so focused on psychic and fairy types, I might've specialized in ghosts. Still might catch one."

"Gosh, if souls exist here that has so many implications. Like maybe resurrection eventually." 

She shakes her head. "Not right now, Dreydrey, you have more important things to do at the moment."

"I'm sure somebody's looking into it, but it's definitely on my list of things to ask Arceus if I ever get the chance. Presumably it's doing something with the souls of the dead."

Little by little, they're getting closer to their destination, the path turning paved and houses approaching.

"Presumably, yes!" Audrey nods along. 

She looks around at the buildings, noting their construction. Most of them seem noticeably smaller than anything back home - it seems like this city she's walking towards is more of a town?

"What's the name of this place you're taking me again? I think you might have said it but it's slipping my mind at the moment." 

"Mauville! It's the home of Hoenn's electric-type gym, led by Wattson, along with the region's best cycling shop."

"Oh cool, there are enough bioelectric pokemon they get their own type? This place just keeps getting cooler!" 

"Yep! There are eighteen recognized types: Normal, Fire, Water, Grass, Electric, Ice, Fighting, Poison, Ground, Flying, Psychic, Bug, Rock, Ghost, Dragon, Dark, Steel, and Fairy. Type energy of different types interacts differently with each other, for example water-type moves are stronger against fire, steel is strong against fairy, and so on. Actually, here."

She pulls up a type-effectiveness chart on her pokénav.

Audrey looks at the chart and lets out a low whistle. "Gosh. Keeping all this in mind must take some memorization."

"It really does. It's mostly intuitive, at least? Waters put out fires, fires burn dry grass and wood, electricity grounds out in the earth. And then some types are defined by their resistances. Dark type, for example, is defined by the fact that psychic powers like mine or Maya's can't touch them."

"Huh, cool. Guess that rules out my being dark-type then, huh?"

"It does. You'd feel like an illusion to my senses, if you were, like your mind wasn't there, just something person-shaped and talking. When I was a little kid, like seven years ago, I was scared of dark-types, said they didn't feel like people."

"Took me a couple years to get over that, but now I kinda like 'em. They're some of the only people who can surprise me, if I'm trying."

"Aw, cute! I like that, yeah. It's good that you get to be surprised every so often."

She smiles broadly and nods. "I keep my senses pulled back enough that I don't really predict what people are going to say next, though, even without dark-types around, just because it's polite. If I don't, then I wind up finishing everyone's sentences. Psychic powers are so cool."

"Psychic powers are so cool! But yeah, please don't finish my sentences for me, I think it'd get tiring pretty quick." 

Sable grins and laughs. "Yeah. I can usually resist that even if I'm in people's heads, but I definitely know if I don't suppress my telepathy."

"So it's a gift you have innately, huh? That's kind of cool. Wouldn't that make you Psychic type though? Is it possible for a human to have multiple types?" 

"Yep! Up to two, same as a pokémon. The only difference is that not everyone does has two, or even one."

"Huh. I see. Is there a difference between being Normal type and being untyped?" 

"There is. It's subtle, but Normal-type humans usually have enhanced mundane senses, and a knack for teaching."