Naomi watched the others train, though her attention wasn't truly on them. Her thoughts wandered instead.<br/><br/>First, there were her trio. Marata, whom she called 'Tai in public, dancing to avoid the surprisingly physical and durable Somnificent. There was much less in the way of flashy powers than she'd originally thought there would be. Her old daydreams of her Dragonair companion being a master of the elements were being dispelled by how physical and, yes, sensual he actually was.<br/><br/>For a few brief moments she imagined him coiling around her, moving with her, loving her. They still hadn't had privacy enough to celebrate his evolution.<br/><br/>Somnificent too was surprising her. The squat yellow pokemon was tough, tougher than she expected, and also physically more powerful than she'd thought at first, though a bit slow. He was still getting the worse of it; 'Tai had him outclassed in sheer power.<br/><br/>'Tai wasn't taking advantage of that. Instead, he was trying to coach Somnificent along. She recognized that by the way 'Tai kept using patterns in his attacks.<br/><br/>She looked up, spotting Loon overhead, idly circling before dropping into the grass. The duck pokemon didn't seem to care about training, or about anything the others were doing. Her mood darkened a little as she thought on it. She'd never really connected with the bird-type, never formed much of an emotional bond. Loon was certainly eager to throw itself into a fight, but she feared that was all she'd ever be able to do with it. She wasn't even sure if Loon was male or female.<br/><br/>It was still near feral. She pressed her lips firmly together as she thought. It had attacked her and 'Tai, and they'd both suffered for it. 'Tai physically, Naomi emotionally. She'd been so eager to get a new pokemon she hadn't really thought through the consequences; This one was feral, it didn't know people. It didn't even know to hold back in a fight when trainers were involved. It was wild, with all that implied. Sure, it had obeyed her, but it hadn't done so without hesitation.<br/><br/>Was it cruel to keep the Farfetch'd? She didn't really need it. She didn't really want it, it had just been the impulse of the moment and the desire to do what all the other kids had done.<br/><br/>None of these thoughts really showed. Her expression was still thoughtful as she stood there, in her blue dress with black trim picking out a geometric pattern.<br/><br/>Naomi's attention was drawn to Eleyna when the woman called out a challenge or something to Jake. She didn't pay much attention to the details of that at first, instead just looking Eleyna over. The way she stood, the way her voice sounded, how she moved, and that odd combination of bravado and vulnerability she'd displayed over the past few days. Naomi felt drawn to her. Friends, she hoped, maybe a little more than that. She doubted it would go much farther, Eleyna didn't seem to have much awareness about how attractive she was.<br/><br/>Jake on the other hand, he was definitely aware, but keeping himself in check. Not just towards her, but towards all of them. He was well built, not so fit as Steven perhaps, but Steven regularly practiced some kind of martial art from what she'd observed, pitting himself against his own pokemon. Jake seemed more thoughtful. That day on the lake, she'd been half tempted to flirt with him more, if only that Gyarados hadn't gotten angry and the, the Slowpoke hadn't taken the edge off her arousal the way it did.<br/><br/>Naomi did catch the tail end of the challenge. Something about which one of them caught the stronger pokemon and a demand for a choice of direction.<br/><br/>Something moved her to step in.<span style="color: #6495ED">"Are you sure that's the best challenge to make? I mean, we've seen some pretty amazing and wonderful things when we go off the beaten path, because there've been so few trainers here. I'm worried that we're disrupting things by taking pokemon from their environment, and then, you know, you'll end up showing them off, and that'll bring more trainers out here, and then it's just another tamed, dull, civilized island."</span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>