Blue sat back, surprised over the younger trainer's sudden outburst. She had to laugh a little-- he was so full of energy even when he was making attempts at being humble that it wasn't hard to see how things had escalated the way they had.

"Mm, you want to know what I think? One trainer to another." She scooted across his blanket, closing some of the distance between them so that this could really be a heart-to-heart sort of deal.

Bad moves aren't always bad," Blue told him. "It depends on what you do after you make them. You could walk away from this thinking you're awful and you messed up and just focus on the bad that happened and could have been. If you leave this room with only regret, then it's going to be a bad move, definitely.

"Leaving that way is a choice that people don't always realize they chose. Bad moves are more important than Good ones sometimes, cause you can learn a whole lot more from them. When you touch a hot stove, you get burned and from then on you know for a fact what you can and can't do. Fire types are the same way. If you instigate them and stir up their pride, it's pretty much a fact that they'll try to burn you."

This was where Blue studied the boy for a moment. "You train fire types, right?"