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    Threadmarks: Chapter 30 Execution

    Dr. Matthews: How did you know what to do? Theo: I didn't. I knew Annihilape's capabilities, and I knew what we had available and I knew how those things fit together tactically. But I've never planned a battle against something that could kill us before. The knowledge was there. I just had to...

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    Threadmarks: Chapter 29 Vital Spirit

    Dr. Matthews: What do you do when you're scared and someone else is falling apart? Theo: There was a situation and Miyato was panicking and I was scared too. I knew what Annihilape was capable of, I knew the ability interactions, knew the move mechanics, and knew how dangerous the situation...

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    Threadmarks: Chapter 28 Walled In

    Dr. Matthews: What happens when your knowledge doesn't help? Theo: I got lost in the forest two days ago. I know the route maps. I know terrain navigation theory. I know which Pokémon inhabit which zones. None of that mattered when I couldn't see the sky and every tree looked like the last one...

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    Threadmarks: Chapter 27 Together

    Dr. Matthews: Do you find it easier to understand Pokemon or people? Theo: Pokemon. I know what a Dratini's behavioural patterns mean. I can read those things immediately. But Miyato stutters when he's anxious, and I didn't know what to do with that except wait. People don't come with the same...

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    Threadmarks: Chapter 26

    Dr. Matthews: How was your first day on the road? Theo: Nothing went wrong. I kept waiting for something to and it didn't and I didn't know what to do with that. Six weeks of structure and someone checking my decisions - now the schedule is mine and the quiet feels like something I haven't...

  6. Live Wire
    Threadmarks: Chapter 25 Signal Interlude

    The Blessed Isles bent. Not broke. Across the long dark between defeats, it had learned between its defeats, that the Blessed Isles did not break easily. The ancient concentration of Ultra Space energy woven into their soil and their water and the bones of their mountains had always made them...

  7. Live Wire
    Threadmarks: Chapter 24 Goodbye

    Therapist: How does it feel to leave? Theo: Like I'm losing the only history I have. Six weeks. That's all I can point to. Everything before that is just gone. He woke up early and went to the arena. Just Theo and Zeus and Jupiter in the empty arena at six in the morning, the lights...

  8. Live Wire
    Threadmarks: Chapter 23 First Steps

    Therapist: What does winning feel like when you can't remember losing? Theo: Like it's happening to someone else. He was awake before the gym. Not the anxious version of early. Just awake, sitting on the edge of his bed in the dark with Zeus beside him and Jupiter at the foot of the bed...

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    Threadmarks: Chapter 22 The Gap

    Therapist: What did watching that battle teach you? Theo: That I don't know what I'm walking into tomorrow. The week moved differently from the weeks before it. Less waiting in it. More doing, and the doing had a specific shape now, the badge challenge tomorrow giving everything a...

  10. Live Wire
    Threadmarks: Chapter 21 Preparation

    Theo: How do you know when you're actually ready and not just telling yourself you are? Therapist: You don't. That's usually how readiness works. Looker and Anabel left on a Tuesday morning. Theo had known it was coming. Their cases elsewhere had been running alongside the Vermilion work...

  11. Live Wire

    I'd really appreciate any feedback or suggestions you guys have for the story so far. Whether it's the writing style, pacing, characters, dialogue, plot, battles, or anything else, feel free to point it out. I'm always looking for ways to improve and make the story better moving forward. Thanks...

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    Threadmarks: Chapter 20 Moving

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  13. Live Wire
    Threadmarks: Chapter 19 Two Storms

    Therapist: What changed? Theo: I stopped waiting for the quiet. The session started the same way every session started. Anabel on one side of the training floor, Theo on the other, six in the morning and the gym still settling into itself around them. He sat cross legged, closed his eyes...

  14. Live Wire
    Threadmarks: Chapter 18 Uninvited

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  15. Live Wire
    Threadmarks: Chapter 17 Stillwater

    Therapist: What does it feel like when you can't make something work? Theo: Like the problem is me. The exhibition had been over for three days and nobody in the gym had stopped talking about it. Not loudly. Not constantly. But in the way things that had genuinely impressed people...
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