Ethan was beginning to close his eyes and almost finally doze off as he settled with laying beside his now-sunbathing Typlosion beside him. But his eyes were quick to snap open when he heard a voice. Of course Ethan had enough manners to acknowledge the newcomer and not ignore her. His mother taught him better, growing up, after all.

He puts on his usual easy-going smile as he answers her question.

"Yup. He is! You know about Pokemon, I take it?"

A shame that the boy might be sadly mistaken... But after finding no other pokemon trainers, here, at all, so far, he still wanted to be hopeful.