[having a voice in your head sucks, right? well, early a couple mornings after their arrival, archie remembers that james was there, and it wasn't just an entire fever dream. right.

this is probably the worst possible way to communicate, he realises, but he can't exactly search the entire island instead.]

Hey, James! [this is weird. he has to think so hard.] It's Archie. Uh-- the Aqua guy? In the wetsuit? I was just wonderin' how you were doing, given we kinda left each other in a... less than great state. Trainers gotta stick together in this [...] perilous Pokémon-less place of... paltry people!

[he's trying to do the thing, bless him.]