Intrepid smiles exceptionally smugly. "Books are great," she says. "Maybe we could spend a little time in the library too? Find new stories for me to read."

'Sure can."

She laughs and bounces a bit as they're walking. 

That's as good a lead-in as any for her to start chatting about her favorite stories.

Umbreon listens fairly intently!

Hopefully she picks up some good ones.

She nods enthusiastically!

The walk eventually winds its way to its end, and Ellie curls up with Intrepid for sleep.

Next day, they head out for the library early, to get there when it opens. Ellie quietly asks the desk people to keep a bit of an eye out that no one's bothering Umbreon, but today isn't generally a busy day so it shouldn't be a problem.

Ellie and Intrepid have a midmorning battle, their first official one at Pewter Gym. The opponents are a gym trainer with a geodude and a rockruff; Intrepid can easily dance around the geodude but the rockruff is fast enough to give her more trouble.

She gives it her all! She's been getting really quick at getting off Fairy Wind, which helps a lot.

With some quick thinking and moderately clever tactics, they can score two knockouts to win the battle.

Smug bouncing commences!

Cute!

They should go celebrate.

Yes! They can pick up very spicy takeout and then take Umbreon to the park for lunch? Or maybe dinner...

They can stop by the library and ask her opinion.

Okay! 

Off to do that, then.

The librarian can point them to Umbreon pretty easily, who's hiding under a desk in a little-used corner of the library with a tidy stack of books she's reading. She looks up and huffs a bit quietly when she sees Ellie and Intrepid.

"Hey. We won our first match, so we thought we'd celebrate a bit. Do you want to join us either now or later tonight?"

She hums and glances toward the door, tilting her head.

"Can't bring food in here, so it'd be outside yeah."

...Hm.

The library's near some woods...

She stands and then looks sadly at the book she was in the middle of.

"We can check that one out if you want."

She grins and nods.

Ellie goes to scoop the book up.

Umbreon goes to put all her other books away on the to-be-reshelved cart.