One day, I had to leave town for a couple of days, and since Tracy was out of town already, I needed to find a sitter. Fortunately, Saline was perfectly willing, and I knew from. . . Well, personal experience that she could certainly handle it.

You see, even though all three of my kids are adopted, I still raise them as any pelipper would. Specifically, I keep them inside my beak as much as possible. It's no big deal -- it's perfectly safe, and the kids actually learned to like it.

Well, except Zorua. He might only be tolerant of my parenting techniques. Or maybe he just really wasn't expecting that cute little shaymin to be able to look after them the exact same way.

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