Ellie checks the book out with her trainer's license, and then they can go find a quiet bit of park to claim.

Heeee.

Umbreon ends up resting pretty closely to Ellie and Sylveon while she eats, hesitantly so, glancing at Ellie a lot.

She's actually in arm's reach, right now.

Ellie smiles, but keeps eating her lunch.

Intrepid sets up a soothing, contented rumble, laying a bit nearer Umbreon.

And Umbreon hesitates after lunch...

Then seems like she wants to follow them, rather than going back into the library.

"We could visit the science museum. It's supposed to be pretty good."

! Heeee. Trill!

"Take the afternoon off?" she asks Intrepid.

"Definitely!"

"Let's go, then."

Pewter Science Museum is in the north of the city, near where it peters out into the foothills of the mountain range. The primary focus is geology, but this is fairly broadly interpreted such that there are digressive exhibits on how that study intersects with other fields, such as archaeology. There's actually a rather nice display of fossils from the local digs the museum sponsors.

Oooo archaeology, Umbreon apparently has a new special interest. Fossils are so cool.

There's an informational sign to the effect that a lab on Cinnabar Island is experimenting with techniques to recreate "lifelike" simulations of ancient pokemon from their fossils.

...That sounds like a bad idea. She huffs.

Humans are so stupid.

"Not a fan?" Ellie asks, wandering over and glancing at the sign.

She nose-points at 'lifelike simulations' and huffs again. 

"Oh. Hm. That does seem slightly dubious, depending what exactly they mean by 'lifelike'."

It's not dubious it's dumb! 

Though humans tend to underestimate the stupidity of other humans. 

She huffs and turns to look at something less dumb. 

There's an exhibit about meteors and the rare metals they can bring to unexpected places when they crash, which ties back into the previous one as well with a discussion of the theory of panspermia, that life was brought to the planet from elsewhere in space by a meteor crash.

Okay that is cool and also something you should actually be investigating. Good job whichever humans are poking meteors and not ancient pokemon.

Whatever humans are poking ancient pokemon, they don't seem to be associated with the rest of the museum.

Very good. Then she has a wonderful educational time the rest of her trip with absolutely minimal annoyance at human stupidity. Lovely when that happens. 

(Rocks are so cool. Some of them are made from LAVA. She likes those best.)

Rocks are pretty cool. The museum lived up to its reputation, in Ellie's opinion.

Yeah!

So it's about dinnertime now, they can get takeout or go to a restaurant or go back to the hostel.

...One chirp?