Courmarine
Dardanette appeared puzzled. Did 'darkness' even mean the same thing to her as it did to him? After a long moment she took the iron lantern. It sprung to life with a ghostly blue flame at her touch and her eyes widened. She hugged the lantern to her stomach rather possessively and nodded at Pent. For once her smile seemed entirely genuine.
I dropped out of school to become a pokemon master, but then they pulled me right back in to get my doctorate!Dardanette peered at Pent searchingly, as if attempting to read him for a moment. The moment passed however and she tightened her grip on the lantern. She was practically cuddling the thing. "...Thank you." she replied rather quietly as she scurried off into the night.
I dropped out of school to become a pokemon master, but then they pulled me right back in to get my doctorate!Coumarine
-Joseph may roll by Straw-
Coumarine Hotel
-Elise is awake, lost in thought-
Eliss's Mindscape
-Red!Elise has gotten stuck to the somewhat melted Straw ice sculpture, having attempted to kiss it-
White!Elise:-facepalms- I thought you were going to let that one melt and build the other one?
-Red!Elise makes an attempt to speak, but her tongue is currently stuck to the ice-
White!Elise:...I have no idea what you just said.
-Meanwhile, an Elise that looks strikingly similar to Umi is firing icicles at the sculpture-
Blue!Elise:I don't understand what we see in this guy. There's nothing thay special about him. Not to mention that we have an ancestral grudge against his family. Who knows, he might end up with an icicle in his back one day.
Red!Elise:-angry unintelligible speech-
White!Elise:...See, this is why I didn't want to release Blue. -turns to Mr. Bubbles- They never listen, do they?
-No response-
White!Elise: Well, next time stop them! Don't just sit there like a statue!
Snowbelle City
-Alyssa is most likely cuddling Crewe in her sleep, because that's what she does.-
Coumarine
-Dune has his current team out and about.-
Dune: Alright - My team this time around is going to be Candace, Flonne, and Etna. Maybe not in that order, but still.
Etna: <*Tsk* It's about time! I've been bored out of my mind!>
-Flonne rubs up against Etna, despite the latter's obvious discomfort at her personal space being violated.-
Flonne: <Oh, this is going to be so much fun!>
Candace: <Hah! You two aren't even going to get a chance if I'm sent out first. There's no way a Grass gym isn't going to be anything but a clean sweep for me.>
Geosenge
Locke starts heading towards the Geosenge ruins, when he spots something that makes his blood go cold. It was a man, tall, white frizzy black hair, eyes that seemed to suck you in, and a black overcoat. He was holding a Keystone in one hand, and was he was giving orders to a Bisharp beside him. He had a scar on his left cheek.It was Wesker the Whisperer.

-Pent sighed and began rummaging in his bag-
Afraid of the dark... Yeesh...
-He pulls out a simple iron lantern-
Here...
It's clearly a case of backroom political albumizing.