Violet eyes flickered back and forth across the Northroad leading out of Boole City. It wasn't nearly as urban as the city itself. The taller industrial type buildings of the city were replaced with a sparse number of residential buildings or small rest stops at the sides of the main road. Even the areas off of the main path weren't entirely spared. Smaller paths and walkways webbed a good portion of the nearby area with benches and vending machines dotting the smaller paths. Trainer could be seen walking together or alone either in search of either other trainers or wild Pokémon to battle. All in all, it felt more like she was walking through one of the city's suburbs than out through the wilderness.

This... isn't really what I was expecting. mused Elaine to herself. Even with the city a fair distance behind her, she still didn't exactly feel as though she had left its boundaries yet. Back home in Unova and even in Kalos, the routes outside of the cities weren't quite as high-tech and convenient as the Northroad. In fact, they were quite rural and wild with only a few exceptions. Looking further along the path she was walking, it didn't seem like the Northroad passed into the foothills for a quite ways yet.

A quiet and disappointed sigh escaped the trainer as her eyes rose to examine the early afternoon sky. In terms of practical experience, she was still very much a greenhorn at both training and adventuring. Knowledge gained through reading and studying and mock exercises at the Lumiose gym was definitely a far cry from the real thing. Even so, she had hoped to reach the grassy plains and the wilderness sooner rather than later. She had spent a majority of her life living in the city and she was eager to explore and experience the world for herself.

The trainer's gaze fell back to the route around her to as she pondered her own eagerness. Perhaps it was better not to rush. Just because she wasn't walking through tall grass and dense forests didn't mean she hadn't already begun, right? She had heard that the Northroad was teeming with wild Pokémon. If she took the time to look, she was sure to run into at least one on her way to the foothills. With her new sub-goal in mind, the young woman veered her course onto the smaller and less populated side paths. If she were going to search for wild Pokémon, they would more likely be found away from all of the trainers traversing the main road.

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