"i had the rare opportunity to visit the research site shortly after a lightning storm swept the area the night before. there wasn't time to go back to the lab to change into my human form, but i think that's alright - i may be able to approach the den area much easier in this form. the site is an open grassland, so i'll just need to be wary of any flying predators as i hike."
"a green, glass-like material dots the landscape at random intervals - mostly small clusters no bigger than my fist in human form, but every so often i'll see an outcropping at least a meter tall, with spikes jutting out like a shattered crystal that was frozen in time immediately after impact. the clusters are also accompanied by scorch marks and burned grass in their vicinity, which confirms that these are fulgurites produced by lightning strikes the previous night - these crystals are commonly collected and sold as 'thunderstones'."
"i feel compelled to touch one of these clusters...for science, of course."
had a couple of folks mention evolution, so here we go! i like to think it's a pretty instantaneous process, but you still see a bit of that transformation sequence as it happens - don't worry, it turns out i'm not permanently a pokemon! i wouldn't have minded, though...
i feel like it'd be cool to do a few short written pieces of just field observations similar to this hehe...i'll keep the idea on the backburner for now~
