Heath drove his food truck away from the Officer Jennys' farm, heading for the produce market. Pallet Town's produce market was in the same place as the Ghost Market, so he did not need to check a map and could simply drive straight there. But as soon as he arrived, he froze for a moment, because there was not a single person there.
Never mind vendors selling vegetables-there was not even a street sweeper. Heath stood blankly before the empty market, deep in thought. He felt he had made a mistaken assumption. Pallet Town was a small, township-sized place, and the smaller a place was, the slower its pace of life generally became.
And that slower pace of life showed itself in every aspect. In Pallet Town, for instance, it meant that the produce market was still completely deserted at an hour when it would normally have been bustling already.
"Ah, does that mean I can sleep in while I'm staying in Pallet Town?" Heath did not know whether to laugh or cry. The sky was already growing light. Even in Viridian City, sanitation workers would have been out cleaning the streets by now, but here in Pallet Town, there was no one.
Heath watched the sun slowly emerge from behind the mountains to the east and breathed in Pallet Town's fresh morning air, feeling considerably more awake. But without buying ingredients, he did not know what he could make. The breakfast he planned to prepare required one particular ingredient. It was not that he could not make it without that ingredient, but the flavor would suffer greatly.
Fortunately, Heath now had plenty of ways to pass the time. The simplest was, of course, playing games. Just playing with Zorua would let him quickly while away some free time. Another,