Rose's eyes were wide with intense excitement as she took in everything, spinning in place a few times. She had always wanted to go camping, and now she could! This tent looked really cool! Her eyes glance over at the posters of Pokemon on the canvas wall. She even recognized some of them! Her friend had a Bulbasaur backpack at school!

The young girl finally turned around, looking at the woman behind the desk. She had played Pokemon games before, and could only imagine this was the professor about to give her a partner Pokemon. Rose was torn almost immediately, she didn't know how to react. She had never met a professor before. That was like a teacher, but for grown-ups, right?

"Um, hi!" Rose spoke, admittedly nervously bouncing on her feet. "My uh, friend at school said they give Pokemon to ten-year-olds. I'm only eight. Is that a problem? I really, really want a friend! Dad says I can't have a pet at home, but Mom said it's okay if I have a Pokemon here!"

Her eyes widened, the classic puppy-dog eye look glancing up at the professor. "Are these questions going to have math tests in them? I'm not really good at math, can we do science questions instead?"

Thirteen and up? That was like, decades away! It was a good thing it wasn't going to stop her from being given a starter pokemon. It would be really sad if her adventures stopped before they even had the chance to begin.

She hopped up into her chair and got comfortable, looking around for maybe a pencil or a crayon to write her answers with. It took the little girl a few moments that she wasn't even going to be handed a paper. It was just questions out loud! They seemed like pretty easy questions too.

"Oh, oh, I love surprises! One of my friends once gave me a candy bar on the bus, because I don't get chocolate at home. It was super good and yummy! Ooh, but I do not like sad surprises. Like when my teacher gives us a surprise math test. I hate math." She frowns softly at the very idea of trying to do math, crossing her arms across her chest.

The next question genuinely seems to give her pause. "I am still a kid, silly professor lady!" She giggled at that for a few moments, seemingly forgetting her math anxiety for a moment. "I like building things and drawing pictures. And I really like pretty flowers. Mrs. Johnson taught us how to plant seeds in the ground, and woosh, plants grow!" Her arms wave in the air excitedly at that, grinning extremely wide. "I really like Mrs. Johnson. She's very nice to me."

And then the question about studying drew her mind's attention back to math. She frowned rather quickly. "... Except when she gives us tests. She does a lot of math tests. I learned to count on my fingers sometimes when it is really, really hard, that helps to study I think?"

"Spriga- Spree- uhhh... Sprig-gat-eato?" Rose's confusion was quite apparent as she tried to read the tape. She had no idea how to say the name but did eventually get close by sounding it out. She had absolutely no idea what Pokemon this was. Despite her apparent confusion, the sheer joy on her face was even more obvious.

"Thank you, Mrs. Ash!" Of course, she had no way to know if the Professor was a Miss or Mrs, but truthfully Rose probably didn't know the difference between the two yet. That was just what you called a teacher, right? It was respect or something. On instinct, she pressed the big button on the Pokeball and it suddenly summoned the Pokemon.

The grass cat Pokemon immediately formed atop the professor's desk, standing tall and proud as it slowly curled around to look at everything.

"You're a cat!"

"And you're a... child?" The Sprigatito sits back on its hind legs, tilting its head as it looked back towards the professor as if wondering was this really her trainer?

"Ahh!" Rose stumbled back for a brief moment as she stood up from her seat before an impossibly wide grin appeared on her face. "You're a talking cat! Like Meowth!"

"Of course, I can speak, why wouldn't I? How else am I to let you know when I require food, and to give me space to sleep?" The Sprigatito certainly seemed very cat-like, but Rose's sole experience with cats was the strays around her house so she wasn't really the best judge, either.

"Professor?" Rose suddenly spoke, intensely curious. "Can you hear them? Is this normal? Ooh, did you teach all the Pokemon to speak? That's so cool!"