A Same Path

An expected consequence

I sighed; not because of hunger or because I could not satisfy it, but because I knew that I barely had four sandwiches and a pot of meat and potatoes...

But I knew it wouldn't be enough for everyone.

As soon as I took out one of the breads I noticed the looks. I would not be so cruel as to eat in front of them, I could ration, but I knew that in spite of everything it would be as useful as if we didn't eat anything. I only sighed again, then put the food away and looked up with a discouraged and scowling look around me.

─I'm sorry, Hina... I give up. ─I thought aloud when I knew the next thing I should do, which was to put myself back in the boxes with Hina's medicines, I knew that "that" remedy was in there too once I saw it before I received it at the post office center in the capital, the same one she had given me the day before to ease my pain, it didn't take me long to find it, and I could only look at it with faint discouragement... before frowning with determination and then drinking a portion similar to the one Hina had given me.

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Then... the sound of several wild fruits and berries falling to the ground in front of some sitting, static and very strange pokémon was the next thing to happen, along with the darkness of the night and the very brightness of an already lit fire.

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Hina's medicine only took away the pain... the point for it to work was to rest, but I knew it would be impossible for me to move around in the forest and carry food for the pokémon with the wounds I still had.

As soon as I sat down from the other side, I had taken the backpack out of the cart, while I had it next to me and was looking for that man's remote control along with one of the sandwiches; I could see those things out of the corner of my eye, before I fixed my eyes on the pokémon again.

They didn't eat, they just kept staring at the berries.

─Hey... ─ I raised my voice calmly, but that alone was enough to make several of the Pokémon approach each other, as if seeking protection from imminent danger. I frowned again, now in mild annoyance, but only snorted, before removing that remote control from my backpack.

It wasn't difficult to find the place where the batteries were, with the help of some knives that I also brought by hand, it didn't take many minutes before I finally took off the lid that covered them.

─Do you see? ─I was holding up the control, scaring the Pokémon with that because of the obvious, but their faces could only freeze again after I took the batteries out abruptly, to finally throw the control as far away from the place as possible ─Stop thinking that I will do something to you... don't make all the food I gathered for nothing; if you want to eat, do it, you are free ─ I could not blame them for fearing me, but even I was unable to hide my reluctance and discomfort with the situation, even more so when I thought that all the work I had done to gather the food might have been in vain.

As if it were a chain effect, as soon as the necklaces stopped receiving the signal from the respective control, the light that was on in them soon went out, and then a worrying beeping sound was heard, causing the clear response of fear and nervousness, more only to exalt them again once the necklaces opened by themselves and fell off.

There was only silence after that... except for the faint sparks that the fire released from time to time, but I could only stare at the pokémon once they were finally released; once again I had done things without thinking, but the expected response was completely different from what I had in mind...