{Oof! What a good hug. She'll squeeze him back as well as she can from this angle.}

Yeah!! {But her optimism subsides a little at his question, and she 'hmms' quietly.}

I dunno. Pokemon are so much stronger then we are, and if we didn't have any pokemon to protect ourselves, we'd be in a lot of trouble... {She trails off, thinking about the flock of Pidove that had attacked them, all those years ago.} People do treat pokemon badly... but I don't know if we'd be better off without them.