When Princess next leaps, the block-structure contracts, gaining a faint sheen of Shadow all around it. If he Bites again, he'll slowly experience an energy drain.

"That's true, yeah," Nita admits, nodding, "But that's not where this is from. There's... in this other place, Nautilus, there were these 'Reality Storms'. People and places changed based on some theme or other, overt or obscure. My second winter there-"

January, though who knows if the months will hold meaning here in this place? "We had an event based on Pokemon - people who had no idea what your world was became trainers, they gained companions, some even kept them..."

Nita then gives a wry smile. "I got an old friend of mine back, in a new form. He had some complaints, but that didn't mean being an Umbreon didn't have its perks."

Like being cuddle-able, for one.