Hopefully everyone else had fun in the pool?

Yeah!!!

(Flareon is very wet. The amount of wet a flareon can get is incredibly impressive, actually, given all the floof. She's the only one still swimming around when Ellie comes to check on them, with the other two lounging on some comfortable towels.)

"You guys about ready to go?"

Nods all around!

(And Intrepid has dried off by now, so can go rub against Ellie's legs without leaving wet fur everywhere.)

Flareon jumps out of the pool and shakes herself vigorously. (...And now there is additional water everywhere!)

Pfft. Ellie spits out some hair.

"Can I get you a towel, o wet and drippy one?"

"They have a fur-dryer machine here, actually. It's fun!"

"Maybe let's try using that first next time, hmm?"

"But then I have to be really drippy all the way over to it!"

"Oh. The horror."

Giggle.

To the fur dryer, then! (This involves standing in a booth with quite a few powerful fans from nearly every direction, air heated and dry, and it leaves Flareon a giant poofball.)

"Need to get you a comb, girl."

"You'd need a really big one."

"Clearly."

"The pharmacy might sell some."

"Let's stop on our way back, how about?"

"Okay!"

They find a nice big comb with a happy little flareon face on the top of it. After brief consideration, Ellie also gets a shorthair combs for Flicker (Intrepid has one already). For Jolteon, there's a special brush to deal with her thicker pins.

Ooo, nice!

They can have a hairbrush party tonight.

Heeee. Fun!

And productive.

Comb party seems to get Jolteon over the last of her physical shyness, too (though she does warn Ellie about grabbing her or touching certain places with a 'I will bite if I do not like your reason' attached).

Ellie will make sure to be careful with Jolteon in those regards, then!

Thanks.