"I could take the blankets off the bed, just use you."

Thoughtful hum. "Sounds lovely. And very efficient in cold climates."

Ellie laughs. "All right, cuddle girl. Let's go to bed."

Nuzzle! "Let's!"

(...Fortunately, Jolteon ends up curling up with Flareon in her bed, given Flicker's decided to join Ellie and Intrepid. The bed really is getting crowded.)

She will have to figure something out about that. But later. Tomorrow, maybe.

Yeah. Later. Snuggles now.

Flareon wants to go check on her dad the next morning, of course, but - she's otherwise a bit at a loss, here...

If they're going to proceed with the gym challenge, they should check out the facility here.

Okay! That sounds fun, and Flareon knows it pretty well - dad used to be a champion, and he still sometimes does battles with her.

Maybe she can give them a tour.

Yeah! It'd be fun.

Shall they make that the day's activity, then?

Sounds good!

Cool.

The Cerulean City Gym, lead by Misty, overlooks the bay, and combines dry training areas with multiple pools of varying size and salinity, and a few roped off areas of natural water. In addition to standard services, they also offer swimming lessons for trainers who want to keep up with their water pokemon.

Flareon has opinions about which pools are the best - though they're all kept up well - and also suggests anyone very fluffy like her go in the showers before getting in the pool. Minimize shedding.

(The swimming lessons were fun when she was an eevee, though she hasn't needed them since - she has a favorite teacher from those, though.)

Does anyone want to take some swimming lessons while they're here? Not today, necessarily, but at some point.

Yeah no.

Might be fun. 

Not really centrally Intrepid's thing, she doesn't think, but won't hurt! 

Would Jolteon want to do something else while the others are swimming?

Maybe some of the dry training area stuff?

They can split up for that, then.

She nods.

It'd be good for her and Jolteon to get some one-on-one time if she wants to battle with the team.

Yeah!