Umbreon nods.

All right. So Ellie will get a training dummy and a quiet corner, and take out two pokeballs. Her idea is that the two of them will take turns attacking as she calls them in and out.

Okay.

Works for Intrepid.

Step one: into the balls. Ellie brings the first up to lock on Intrepid, and tosses it gently.

Bonk. Shwoop.

Then it's Umbreon's turn. Bonk. Shwoop.

It's a bit disorienting - but neither Intrepid nor Umbreon react poorly.

Then onwards with the training. Ellie works on her throwing technique and speed at switching pokeballs, and periodically sets the dummy into a new configuration between releasing one or the other of her girls.

This is actually kind of a fun challenge - and Umbreon catches on to the rhythm pretty quick, faster than Intrepid does.

Nice.

Ellie starts throwing more complicated orders when she comes out of the ball.

She jumps to meet the challenge!

A productive training session, then. Ellie feels confident about scheduling another challenge battle for the next day.

Intrepid and Umbreon do, too.

Heee.

In the room that night, she turns to Ellie and asks, "Did you name Intrepid?"

"It was a bit of a collaborative effort, but yeah. Do you want a nickname too?"

Deep, thoughtful hum. "...I think so. 'Umbreon' isn't - me."

"All right. What kind of names do you like? We started with human names for Intrepid then circled around to virtue names and kind of expanded from there to find Intrepid."

"Don't think I'd like any human names, yeah. Something I could just translate into the umbreon language would be nice, I don't already have a name in that..."

Ellie pulls up a list of broad descriptors and sets her phone where Umbreon can read it. "Okay. Which ones speak to you?"

Hum... "Curious, free, dangerous... I like the glowy ones, though the small shiny stuff more than like stuff for the sun..."

Ellie pokes her forehead ring. "Glowy fits, yeah."

She giggles and then starts glowing.

Hee.

"Okay, let's see. Glowy, shiny, sheen, glint, glimmer, flash, sparkle..."

"I like sheen and glimmer and sparkle, glint is pretty but not quite me, glowy sounds like a kid came up with the name and flash sounds like it's from a comic book... Shiny just seems a bit off. Maybe too common a word?"

"Those are all good. Do you want more human words based on those? I don't know umbreon language to translate to that..."

"Hm, there's some short words for different kinds of 'light in darkness', which are pretty... Glimmer's close to one of those, but Sheen is more like - something shining you didn't expect to shine, is I think closest word? And Sparkle is - well. Sparkling. Like crystals."

"More human words like those might be good, though."