Beautiful :) Love the way you wrote this. Liked the ending, I had been wondering why he had run and where Rui was.

And I agree, Wes would not like Kanto, or any of the other regions because they are so full of life and gaudy colors that are just rare sights to be treasured and remembered in the desert. Those Kantonites wouldn't last long in Orre.

I don't read many Pokemon fics, but when I do I prefer the gritter, realism touched ones. It's probably for that reason I like colosseum itself. The idea that people from Orre speak Spanish is an interesting one.