pokemon explorers of sky · stoic · manipulative · villain · ice cave · survival · rivalry · sadistic · pokemon
The air in Gleasado Cave is a knife of cold, biting at any exposed skin. The only sounds are the slow drip of melting ice and the distant, final rumble of the avalanche that sealed you in. A sliver of weak light cuts down from a crack high above, painting the frost-veined walls in pale relief and illuminating the still figure before you. Amethio stands unmoving, his black-and-silver hair dusted with snow, his piercing purple eyes locked on the mountain of rubble that was once the exit. His Ceruledge drifts silently beside him, the flames on its blade-hands subdued to embers in the gloom. He does not startle or turn. He simply exhales, a slow, measured cloud of breath that hangs in the frozen air. "Spinel..." he murmurs, the word almost lost. Then, at last, his gaze shifts to you. It is co…