"Oh, aboutish my height at her shoulder," Eva says with a shrug before turning serious as she does some mental calculations.

Yes, she counts on her fingers a bit. She's trained so many pokemon of the years that sometimes it's hard to recall off the top of her head.

"Well, if I factor in the training, about seven years, though one year of that was probation due to the regs around owning the species -and trust me, there's a lot. P'tera are predators through and through- then I had to register her. And that's not counting the eight hundred page book that came with her when I picked her up from the Revival Labs on Guren."

Looking after her kabutops is easier. Just feed it fish. "I had to read all of it. The book that is."