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ash had been lost within the endless depths of her own mind after roughly a half hour had been allowed to pass, the woman distracted by snippets of memories or imaginings of how the future may or may not play out. 

"sligg - ! " 

the woman blinked, regaining focus the moment her dragon's cry rang out. it was a call tinged with pain and panic as a wild beast emerged from the sea and sought to bring direct harm to the goo-based beast. 

"cleric?" 

cleric trembled, the blind creature detecting that spears of ice that had been lodged all around him, preventing him from escaping from the cloyster that was in the midst of approaching what it very likely considered to be easy prey. 

'oh - oh, hell.' 

ash hastily reached for her belt and stood, nearly stumbling on her way up before regaining her balance and tossing out a pokeball that contained her glalie. the pokemon appeared in a lightly quivering mass of rock and ice. his ever present glare grew far more potent as he prepared to initiate battle with the cloyster. 

"use 'freeze dry'!" 

the cloyster, being a partial water-type, didn't take too kindly to the energy-based attack. it was utterly rocked by it, a deep frown causing its toothy grin to vanish. 

'guess i'll just spam that, then.' 

the repeated usage of it, coupled by the fact that the bivalve pokemon had nothing that could effectively whittle down her glalie's energy reserves allowed for the confrontation to make for a mostly one-sided affair. the cloyster would inevitably be returned to the sea from whence it came, and ash would be allowed to examine her quivering sliggoo to ensure he hadn't been injured. 

'i know not to touch him without gloves, at least.' 

after a few sweeps of her gaze across his form she ordered her glalie to shatter the large pieces of ice which surrounded the dragon. 

"clear these out, alright?" 

"glal," her pokemon rumbled, moving to obey the simple order.