[Joker listens to it, to the familiarity in those thoughts and desires. Without really thinking about it, he starts to hum quietly.]

Tom, he was a piper's son, he learned ta play when he was young. And the only tune that he could play was "Over the Hills and Far Away"... Over the hills and a long way off, the wind shall blow my top knot off.

[The Sylveon comes bounding over for a moment, touching his face with the ribbons until he shoos them away so that the rest of the Pokemon can get fussed over.]

That rhyme got repeated more times than prayer when me and the rest a my family were young. Once we got outta the streets, we were all sure of that phrase, "over the hills". When you've been already at the bottom, ya can't go anywhere else but up, right?

So we figured that sooner or later, we'd go "over the hill", that things would get better.