Chapter Thirty-Five: An Autumn Morning in the Park

Chapter Thirty-Five

An Autumn Morning in the Park

It was early.  Seven AMish.   There was a Pokemon raid taking place in the gym at the fountain in the center of the garden in Washington Park, Albany, NY.  The morning chill was significant.  A slight smell of moldy leaves hung in the frosty, October morning air.  Jackie and Jill hurried across Madison Avenue into the park, trying to make the raid before the Pokemon fled.  Jackie remembered later that it was a Haunter.

There was nothing particularly special about that day.  No sign that anything different or unusual was about to transpire.  The flowers in the formal garden were starting to look tired.  End of the season tired.

Jackie and Jill had just made it into to formal garden proper when the thunder began.  It was instantly deafening.  And then the flashing lightning.  They were terrified.  What had begun as a quick Pokewalk in the park had turned into something else.

Obviously, they could not see the two speedsters battling.  But they did notice that at one moment they were standing under the giant tree and next they were over by the fountain; the tree having come crashing down right where they were.

Jill watched as I staggered away from them and fell down unconscious at the base of the Moses statue.

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