In the mists of Cuilan lies a valley, and in that valley lives a Swablu.
A boy who had never won a battle walked out of it with the Swablu by his side.
Along the way, he met
a dockside girl who talked enough to drown an entire marsh,
a boy at a Pokémon Day Care who spoke to Pokemon but not to people,
a Coordinator afraid that “beautiful things would disappear,”
and a rival who walked faster than him, but stopped for longer.
They went from earning their first Badge to their eighth, and from strangers to people they would never forget.
Years later, the boy carved a line on the message wall at Cloudcrown Peak: “Lan from Ye Yin Town made it here.”
Beside it was a crooked bird’s footprint.
This was one boy’s journey.
And it was theirs, too.
