For a moment she didn't look wholly convinced, but his smile, however small, managed to put her at ease again at least for the moment (That's not even going into how long she thought it must have been since she'd ridden on her brother's back.). She'd managed to completely forget about her exhaustion in the excitement of the moment, but his asking brought it all back rather fresh. She smiled softly back ("Sorry to trouble you," it said), a little bit flustered, but happy. "If I'm not too heavy."

She was glad that no one had come out worst for ware. She'd have felt pretty guilty if Ken's Pokemon had been hurt, or Mamoru, and especially Ran. The sooner Sneasel was healed the better, too. She'd fought so hard to try protecting her trainer, Aya was going to make it up to her ten fold, she didn't think she'd done enough to protect Sneasel in return.