Technically, this isn't Caph territory -- but the flags are just still in view, and this part of the forest is usually empty. It's too far out of the way for most of Paldea's travelers, and Eri has always encouraged her team to stick together in less dangerous wilds. So when the branches snap behind her, tension lances down her back and her hand tightens on Tauros' pokéball.
-- She's correct; it's not a pokémon and it's no one she recognizes. Even now, a thrill of anxiety lives in the pit of her stomach, but that's why she is who she is. That's why she's strong and why she raises herself to her full height, expression unimpressed and imperious, and hopefully made more intimidating by the way the sunlight falls in dappled shards through the foliage.
❝ Hey -- you're approaching restricted territory. Turn back -- for your own safety if nothing else. ❞
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