He lashes his head around, sending sparks of flame flying.

"Ooh, pretty." Toss goes the other half of that treat. Feume snatches it out of the air.

Walta starts petting his neck, the non-firey parts. Feume tolerates this and nudges her with his muzzle.

"Maybe remember to tell him what to use attacks on if they may set stuff on fire. And you want to be able to tell him to do things besides moves, too."

"Alright. Follow me, Feume." She walks down to a nice bare spot of ground sets a piece of scrap wood down. "Use ember on this."

He gives her a slightly impatient look, but obeys. Then waits for his treat. He gets another half of one, which he gulps down with a nicker.

"Treat for every little thing is maybe a bad idea too? At least after the first while?"

"Yeah, but you're still in the first while."

She pets him a little more. "I get the feeling we're gonna get along though. I like his attitude. Can I pet your fire, Feume?"

"Ponnn." He jumps a bit, then turns to the side, bringing the mane within reach.

Walta pets him. "Oooh, so warm!"

Feume shifts away and goes off running in a wide circle after a few seconds, before stopping back in front of Walta. She tries to pet the fire again but gets singed this time and backs off.

"You'll get there. Fireflower took me a couple weeks to work up to it."

"I got a couple seconds at least. Feume, show me how you tackle, that way!"

He charges off in the indicated direction after a moment and gets a whole treat for his cooperation.

Bella gives her tips until Feume seems to have the hang of doing what Walta tells him. Then she tosses Juu for sparring.

"Let's do this, Feume! Fight defensively to get the hang of it, tackle if you see an opening."

Feume snorts and takes a low, taut position facing Juu.

Juu spars gently, dancing nimbly around the larger 'mon and just tapping him rather than fighting to incapacitate.

Feume mostly practices dodging, trying to land his own taps, but quickly gets impatient at the skill gap and Embers probably more forcefully than necessary when Walta spots an opportunity and shouts it out as a command.

"Hold back a little more, Feume. You're new at this, be patient, watch Juu and learn."

"Juu's not going to be ideal for learning from except insofar as she's good for practicing against," Bella says. "Fireflower would have a more similar style."

"Good point, I guess. You wanna do that, Feume?"

Feume snorts and lifts his front in the air towards Juu, kicking.

"Pretty sure that means 'let's finish this' or something."

"Well, also, Fireflower's not a very well behaved sparring partner, I'd be micromanaging her all the time."

"Probably couldn't hurt him too much to learn to deal with a more real fight too. Hey, Juu's trying to get on your right!"

"It wouldn't be a fair fight, Fireflower's got him pretty outclassed."

"Well, I'll ask him when he decides he's done with Juu. Probably not long, he's getting tired of not being able to do much."

Juu continues patiently not being hit very much.

Eventually, "I think that's about enough, you agree Feume?" Feume nickers and backs off. "Good fight though! You get another treat."