[The cubone nods. It makes sense after all-] If even one can swim or fly well enough to pull the load of everyone else, it makes sense...

...It makes me think a little of the stories of settlers in history books I read at home actually. I mean... [He grimaces.] There was, uh. A lot of sanitation in some of those books, but the general idea of it was the same!

There's even a story of a whole colony that, because no one could contact them for a few years, just seemed to disappear. ...I'm pretty sure they just mingled with the locals and ended up living further inland from where they'd been though.