She makes a shushing motion and points to the food she'd transferred to a little go bag, then points at the door, tilting her head.

(It's currently not yet dawn, and the street outside is about as quiet as city streets ever get.)

...Headtilt.

She crawls out of her nest, shaking her blankets off, then goes to the door, waiting for Intrepid to open it before heading to the hostel's exterior door, staring out at the dark city.

...There's streetlights, which she doesn't approve of, but...

She doesn't exactly like being cooped up.

She steps outside.

Heee.

She picks up the go bag and closes the room door behind them, loping after Umbreon and then darting ahead, flicking her tail invitingly and then leading the way to a forested park she spotted the day before. It's not exactly huge, nor a very natural forest, but it's big enough they can get away from the site of buildings on a few trails, and it has pretty flowers along the paths.

Picnic?

Picnic!

After morning tag, of course. Exercise is better before food than after.

Intrepid thoroughly agrees!

She's familiar enough with cities to steer Umbreon back before morning traffic begins - a little bit after dawn, and Ellie's probably not awake yet so they should be quiet, though she might be stirring some...

Still sleeeeeepy.

Intrepid gets a cold breakfast prepped and set on the tiny kitchenette counter, then quietly peeks through things until she finds the coffee maker and figures out how to use and program it. She knows about when Ellie tends to wake up on days like this, so... Set coffee to be ready at that time, then stealthily return for more snuggles!

(Umbreon watches in apparent fascination, then goes to slink into the hostel's common room in search of... Actually just literally anything to entertain herself with that doesn't involve humans. She can drag a magazine to a forgotten corner, maybe.)

Ellie wakes slowly, as is her wont, but the coffee definitely helps and earns Intrepid some extra pats.

Excellent!

(She does this every morning coffee's a reasonable thing to make, but, well. It never stops creating a warm glow in Intrepid's chest to set things up for her Ellie.)

"Where'd Umbreon go?" she asks once she's together enough to notice the absence.

"I think the common spaces? We went out to a park to have breakfast before the sun came up, and she was sniffing at the magazine rack when we were coming back in. Though she probably grabbed something and hid..."

"Right. Well. We should let her know we're heading out."

"Okay! To the Gym?"

"To the gym!"

Bounce!

Umbreon has in fact liberated the common room of a small stack of home and garden magazines and found an out-of-the-way bench to curl up under. She looks up from one of her magazines, tilting her head, when Ellie and Sylveon find her.

"We're headed out to the gym, probably for the whole day. Do you need anything before we go?"

She thinks, then touches her paw to her mouth and makes a noise a lot like the one Intrepid makes when begging for food, then a questioning noise.

"I left some pre-cooked things on the table in the room, you should be able to get to them. We'll bring dinner back again. If you want we can try to get back for lunch, too."

Hum, and then she hesitates and shrugs, feigning nonchalance a bit awkwardly.

"We'll see how things go on our end, then."

She nods and picks up her magazines, intending to return to the room with them.

Ellie won't get in her way.

Off to Pewter Gym for her and Intrepid.

So what's first on the agenda?