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>The trickster struck out his chest, mimicking your own standing position.
>”How was it?” Zoroark asked, staring ahead.
>The vulpine pokémon sounded distinctly masculine.
>As soon as you looked back at his cerulean eyes, he stared at the ground.
“How was… what?” You replied, squinting your eyes.
>Something felt off…
>”My performance!” Zoroark declared, matter-of-factly.
>”Surely I blended r-right in, okay?”
“Uh…”
>Had this been a regular conversation, you wouldn’t have been caught off guard.
>Something about the way he talked was wrong.
>The second of distraction made his smile wane.
“I mean…”
“I guess, if…”
>Zoroark still didn’t make eye contact.
>He was looking everywhere but your eyes.
>Where was he going with this?
“Yeah.”
“It would’ve fooled most people, I think. Yeah. It was good.” You said.
>It was good and you were sincere. You would have been tricked if you were human.
>The zoroark let out a long breath he’d been holding.
>”Fantastic! Just, j-just Fantastic” He said, twirling a lock of his long, red and black-tipped hair.
>He spun it around in circles with his hand.
>He mumbled something.
>…
>Then brought a hand to his fuzzy forehead, blocking his eyes.
>…
“What?”
>…
>It was deathly silent, aside from the dull bonking aron heads way on the other side of the junkyard.
>You heard him this time.
>”Ho’kayokayokayokayokay….”
“You, uh… You wanna talk?” You asked.
>”No.” Zoroark curtly replied. “No, no I really, really do not want to talk to you.”
“Huh…”
>Now you realized what was so bizarre.
>His fat mechanic illusion hadn’t fooled you, but this trick was a loopy one.
>His mouth didn’t match what he said.
>Like watching a dubbed movie or anime.
>Slightly off in parts, incredibly off during other syllables, and occasionally matching.
>Some auditory illusion, you guessed, to get past the fact he couldn’t talk like he used to.
“Well, I’ll…”
“Look, you shouldn’t be close to Aggron, alright? This is her-”