Don’t spoil the mood.

As she drifts off to sleep, muttering about being happy with Sir, I decided not to go too quickly. As this has happened twice now, I’m sure we can figure out how to make it happen again.

Sleep starts to overtake me as Lexi reverts back to her Sylveon form. Smiling at this, I hugged her tighter and we both fell asleep.

I woke up to the smell of fire! Sitting up, I am face to face with a man who is tending the re-lit campfire. My movement wakes Lexi up.

“Ah, good morning. I didn’t want to wake you. Breakfast?” He points to a pan in the fire, currently sizzling with eggs and bacon. “Allow me to introduce myself. Cole Marston, at your service, and my partner, Lucretia.” I'm not sure how I missed it, but I just now notice a Ninetails laying next to him. “You eat, I talk, sound good?”

I nod, mouth already full.

"I represent The Antro-Evolution Society. While I can't go into specifically how, we at AES are aware of what happened last night."

I stop with a forkful halfway to my mouth.

"Don't worry," he assures me, "you're not in any trouble. We just want to make sure you don't get into any."

We finish breakfast and I tell him that I'm taking the coastal route northwest to Kalos.

"Good, I'll walk a ways with you, I'm sure you have a ton of questions."

And I do. He answers most, as best he can: No membership dues, no meetings per-se but "safe houses" in most major cities. No, not orgy central, nice, private room for your discretion. AND DISCRETION IS KEY HERE. On this he is adamant.

He hands me a book, "Most of what you need to know,what's going on, the rules, the rules that can be bent, the BIG taboos, contact info, a brief history of the Society, and a bunch of other helpful tips and hints. It's very handy. I don't know how they find us, yes us Lucretia and I", he nods to his Ninetailes "have been members since my 20th birthday. I'm fifth generation to accompany Lucretia. Ninetails are legend to live a thousand years, and Lu has been with my family almost 250 years now.

My grandfather was one of the founders of the AES close to a century ago, when she An-Evolved for him for the first time. She never did for my dad, or he never told me about it, but as Grandad made it sound, he never spoke to my dad. Only reason he spoke to me was because she An-evolved for me. She treated me like one of her kits. Ever since I could walk, she was right there next to me.

Then, on the eve of my 20th birthday, just before I was going to head out on a new Pokemon journey, she came into my room, jumped into my bed and changed. I almost screamed for my mom, but she silenced me with a kiss. It was raw, it was pure and it felt like the most natural thing in the world. I had my share of girls, I don't mean to brag, but this was a level of intimacy that the poets write about. We made love that night, for the first time. Love. No other way to say it. True, pure love.She's accepted that I still needed a human companion, albeit, begrudgingly. And I accepted that she will belong to the next generation soon enough.

I never told my wife, or my children. It's not about sex, a trainer who forces their pokemon to have sex with them is, on the eyes of the AES a ****. Pokemon are bound to serve us. We basically kidnap them and **** them to fight themselves to exhaustion. If we throw sex into the equation then they really are just slaves. I'm guessing you had her as an Eevee, right?"

I nod.

"And you didn't capture her at first?"

"No, I rescued her from drowning when we were both little."

"I figured something like that. I've been with Lu my whole life. She was never a pet, she's part of our family. I suspect it's somehow connected, but I'm rambling."

We continue on for about another hour or so and he answers more questions, a gentleman doesn't talk about his conquests (Particularly when one of those conquests has super-sensitive hearing), if I have any questions, give him a call, and as we near the split to head North or East, he looks my in the eyes. "I know this is an exciting time. You want to tell everybody about this awesome thing that you discovered. I know I'm sounding cliche or like a broken record, but you can't tell anybody. Like I said, imagine if everybody knew they might, MIGHT be able to do this. It takes years, decades sometimes, to build a relationship of trust, friendship, compassion and ultimately, love required for this to work. Look at Mega-Evolution, a trainer can't bully their pokemon into mega-evolving. Countless have tried, but there are rumors about people with a **** of personality so epic that they can dominate a pokemon into An-evolving. Just be careful, and if you need any help, call us." He turns East back to Olivine and I head North to Kalos.

I call out Typhlosion, Ember, and we spend the rest of the day hiking, catching and battling. It's a three day trek to the Kalos border and I'm halfway through the booklet by lunch the next day.