I ain't gonna lie, it is nice knowin' your roots. The books the Pokeprofs over the years have put out ain't got everything exactly right, but I've read up some on how things were once humans started comin' into the picture.

[He looks down at those elegantly-crafted tree doodles again, maybe smiling juuust a little.]

S'kinda funny, actually. We weren't tryin' to or nothing, but me and the boss ended up bondin' the way people and Charizards did it before Pokeballs ever came into the picture.