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Dr. Julianne Skye, prominent Unovan scientist, pokemon trainer, and musician, was my hero. Above all, she was a perpetual enigma. Academically, she was known for breakthroughs in spiritual physics and pokelinguistics. She and her colleagues founded the spiritual physics department at Unova Regional University (the first SP program worldwide). In competitive training circles, she was lauded for her strategic literature and mentorship of renowned trainers worldwide. Musically, she is celebrated as a virtuosic cellist and the composer of four operas—The Sublime Apparition, Song of The Mandibuzz, The Masquerade, and From There Approaches.
Many deemed her insane for interacting closely with some of the region's most powerful and hostile pokemon species. However, it is through these incredible relationships that her most valuable scientific progress was made. Without Keros, her chandelure, the field of spiritual physics would still be in its infancy. Fire-sign might never have been recognized. Unovan public safety protocol regarding the litwick line would still remain abysmally inadequate. It is to these policies that many owe their lives.
Yet, two decades ago, at age seventy one, Julianne and her five remaining pokemon vanished. She was declared legally dead on December twelfth, last year. Critics suspect her starter murdered his trainer and team before incinerating the bodies. This is complicated by the fact that her last known location (Aspertia’s Rocky Mount Inn) was marked three weeks before the missing person report, and her chandelure has not been sighted since. Friends, students, and family protest this theory but are unable to posit an alternative. I would like to believe otherwise as well. It seems both tragic and unlikely that Keros would turn so abruptly on the one who loved him more than life itself.
Aside from Dr. Skye’s published works, many of her records were scattered, even encrypted. For the past three years, I have searched for these documents—her literary ghost—in hopes of honoring and understanding the woman who inspired me. Dead or alive, I am determined to discover the fate of Julianne Vespera Skye.