[ No Vulpix? Stunky's tail droops, but Valmont gives her a stern look and she doesn't press the matter. ]

Oh, much the same. I've been busy with work. [ Grunt work, of course. He still has to figure out how to rise through the ranks of this bloody organization. ] And training this thing. [ He gestures at his Gothorita, who looks a bit put out at that description of himself. ] I didn't know it would turn out quite so... feminine, did you?