[ He knows Luke doesn't need to be there - or if he doesn't know that, he thinks it. But whether he is or isn't, it shouldn't matter really. Red's conflicted if that's true or not, but it wins out that he wants him to stay, just to fight that feeling Giovanni gives that there's something lesser about him with Luke present.
Of course, those thoughts are gone at the sight of the small pin.
He thought the man was going for a pokéball, his own hand slipping upwards near to his waist for one of his own, but Red stops when the object that Giovanni retrieves is much smaller. And green. And very much not a ball.
And he has seen it before, though it's been so long that he has to blink and think a second what it is.
Trying to think of what it means though, his head comes up blank. ]
What? The Earth Badge? [ It is, isn't it? ] Why do you have that?
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Of course, those thoughts are gone at the sight of the small pin.
He thought the man was going for a pokéball, his own hand slipping upwards near to his waist for one of his own, but Red stops when the object that Giovanni retrieves is much smaller. And green. And very much not a ball.
And he has seen it before, though it's been so long that he has to blink and think a second what it is.
Trying to think of what it means though, his head comes up blank. ]
What? The Earth Badge? [ It is, isn't it? ] Why do you have that?