She chirps.

Smile.

"Good."

She hesitantly walks a bit closer.

"Can you invite her to go sit at our camp with us? For tonight. We can share breakfast then."

"We're going to go back to camp until morning. Hopefully it's salvageable. Do you want to come with us?"

She hesitates, then nods, walking a little bit closer to the two - though still not in grabbing range.

Back to the tent.

It's a little crumpled, but not irretrievably broken.

And looks like the few things they didn't have time to grab - mostly the mess kit - came through intact, too, and they hadn't lit a fire last night since it was pretty warm.

Intrepid's getting the sort of shaky exhausted she does with an adrenaline crash and would like to go back to sleep, now.

They can curl up together again.

Yeah! (Snuggle snuggle.)

Umbreon, of course, doesn't enter the tent with them, instead lurking in the shadows outside the clearing.

Though she's still there in the morning, at least, peering hesitantly out of a bush.

"Good morning," Ellie yawns. "Want some breakfast?"

She mrrs, probably agreeably, and emerges from the bush, approaching cautiously - but closer than she had last night.

Making friends through the power of easy food.

She sets about getting a breakfast ready.

She creeps closer and closer, inch by inch, as more food is revealed.

Intrepid's doing her best to look friendly - but not too off-puttingly enthusiastic - and non-threatening. It helps that she really wants food, too.

Ellie has enough for two pokemon and herself.

Eat up, folks.

Umbreon's pretty hungry! But she doesn't eat her way through the stores entirely, and they'll still have plenty for the trip, even if their new bottomless pit friend accompanies them the entire way.

"We're headed north to Pewter," she tells the Umbreon. "Are you staying in the forest?"

...Uncertain rumble.

"Well, if you want to travel with us even for just a little way, we'd love to have you."

Agreeing chirp!

She hums, shifting a bit uncertainly, then nods.

"Great." Ellie starts packing up the camp.

Intrepid has opposable tentacles and can help now! So they're ready to go pretty quickly.

Intrepid bounds ahead of them a bit along the path, then back, then ahead - often wiggling at the umbreon specifically.