Too late, the Trainer in the tall grass was getting ideas. He stepped out of the tall grass and came into view, and he was lazily tossing a Pokeball up and down. "Looking for something?" There was a slight frown; should he know her? He'd done a bit of research on the gym leaders of these parts, but it hadn't been very recent or thorough. That was lucky for her; he would have been even more eager for a fight if he'd known she was a gym leader. "Like, say, a battle?"

Okay, so he was still pretty eager.