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Andarien fidgeted, shifting his weight from one foot to the other, and one hand went to the Pokeball at his waist.

"Don't like it," he said finally, looking away from Eron.

He ran his fingers lightly over the smooth red surface of the Pokeball, twitching when they came close to the release button. He knew he couldn't let Ponydash out in the shop, but he wanted to.

Andarien smiled at the change in subject, and his entire body relaxed.

"Yeah, they're more like my friends than my protectors," he said warmly, much happier to talk about his Pokemon than about being in the weapons shop. "We got them back in Gaia before we came here. Well, Eon and Ponydash, anyways. Eon hatched on my birthday, so I'm exactly one year older than him. He almost always goes everywhere with me."

He frowned. "Except he disappeared a few times with Ai, and every time that happens, Ai has another litter. Which is a good thing, I guess, but I don't like it when he goes off for days at a time. We almost had to leave him behind last time because we had to leave for Garnelia and him and Ai were gone somewhere."

Andarien blinked, and his brow furrowed in confusion once more. He thought long and hard about what Eron had said, about the Pokemon's desire for privacy, but he just didn't understand it.

"Why?" he asked blankly after being unable to come up with an answer of his own.

Andarien still didn't understand, but he still had the childlike mentality that simply accepted what he was told without questioning it further.

"Oh," he nodded, as if the explanation did indeed give him all the information he needed. "Okay. I guess that's okay then. It's nice to have the other Pokemon around, too."

He smiled. "We only had three Pokeballs to start out with, one for Ponydash, Eon and Ai, and then when they had their first litter with Zeus and Yasu, Corazin - he was my master when I was his apprentice in Caras Galadhon, he taught me about gears and stuff - he made more Pokeballs as a gift, and Miyuki learned how to rune them to make them like the regular Pokeballs."

He was clearly warming up, talking about something that was far more pleasant to him than the shop and why he didn't like it.

"Maybe I can make one, if we find the metal," Andarien offered. "I don't know, it might not be very good, though."

Shoneah was only a step behind Miyuki, and her hands were empty. "I helped my father make such things back home," she offered quietly. "With Andarien's help, I'm sure I could make one."

Andarien eyed her empty hands, and she added, "They will make me a new bow, better suited for me, but it will take a day or two."

"That depends on what you're going to use the forge for," Shoneah replied. "My da's forge is portable because we move so much, but we don't use it to make large items. An armorer would need a bigger one."

"I just need one that can hold a fire hot enough to melt the metals that I need," Andarien added. "You thinking for the mobile home, Mi?"

Shoneah glanced back at the girl who was tending the shop, then looked back at the others. "Shall we continue this conversation on our way to the tailor's?" she suggested, nodding at the door.

"It'll have to be in a stone room," Andarien informed her, releasing Ponydash the moment they were outside. "Otherwise there will be too much risk of fire. Can you make a room all of stone?"

For that matter, he had no idea if she was going to be making the entire room out of magic, or if she would just be creating the space and then filling it in afterwards.

Shoneah blinked when Ponydash appeared. She hadn't seen the Pokeballs being used before, and she had assumed that the Ponyta had simply been left outside.

"Do I get two rooms then?" Andarien asked curiously, one hand on Ponydash's neck as they walked. "One for forging and one for sleeping? I guess I can do my designing in my bedroom if I have to, will the rooms be big enough for a bed and a desk? Do the Pokemon get a room for if it's raining and they don't want to be outside? Or a room for battling?"

He was so full of questions, and Shoneah couldn't help but wonder at his boldness. She had always led a very simple life, and she didn't understand why he wanted so much.