…Don’t have many important people back home. [She looks down at her hands folded in her lap, almost embarrassed to admit it.] Aside from mum, it’s mostly just acquaintances and coworkers I like more than others. I do miss them, though.

……Hell, it’s stupid but I even miss the annoying ones sometimes.

[You probably couldn’t get her to confess that fact to anyone else without torture, and even then, it wouldn’t come easy. She’d rather eat glass than give James or Fred an inch, because lord knows they’d take a mile. ]

The weather here is way different than Topaz. I don’t mind all the sun but I do miss the cooler temperatures sometimes, with those cloudy grey skies and the near constant drizzle.

And I miss flying. And driving! God I miss driving. Cruising down the motorway with the windows down and the music blasting! Weenis loved that too.

[Speaking of…]

I miss seeing all the familiar pokemon. Familiar to me, anyway. I’m sure you all wouldn’t recognize a single one. …Heh. I’m the odd one out around here in a lot of ways.

[It was isolating, being the only one from a land no one had heard of. It was difficult, being a criminal in a place where everyone was treated kindly. It was strange, suddenly having nothing but free time when your whole life had been about doing work.]

… I miss being a part of something.