The boy nods, following her inside. At her direction, he plopped down at the kitchen table, glancing around the house. Despite being able to only see one room, the house seemed quite large! He focused his attention back on her as she approached.
“Oh, y’ saw that? Yeah, it was a great battle–!”
It would’ve been better if he’d won. It was a total curb-stomp battle, one that he didn’t feel very great about. Nobody would, after all. Pushing those thoughts to the back of his mind, Ash accepted the ice pack, removing his hat to place it on his head.
“I’m Ash Ketchum! Nice to meet’cha!”
“Oh I certainly agree, I was very impressed with your performance. ”
She had been so impressed at the time that she went through most of his battles from the conference to see his strategies. The ideas some trainers came up with absolutely fascinated her sometimes.
“A pleasure to finally meet you, Mister Ketchum. I have to admit though, and I hope you don’t take offense to this, I was expecting you to look a little younger. I honestly have no idea why.”
Back in the Game 