"I'm alright. I have Dragonite, anyway." So he's not quite 'alone', he was just thinking of humans when she asked earlier. "And I've made some friends among the native wildlife here."

He doesn't offer a hand to shake, but he does nod much deeper than usual, the gesture carrying with it the attitude of a bow.

"Professor Samuel Oak. I study Pokemon."

((I was reading through some old threads, and she saw him at the first Kaiba/Iwaizumi fight if you want to have her recognize him?))