He'll love that. He's mostly been pouring his love of training into pokémon instead of weapons. Although he and the others have been making wooden weapon replicas to spar with. I've checked with what amounts to the law in this land, though, and I'm not allowed to have anything even close to a real bow except on formal archery ranges...that's gonna go for you too, obviously. People aren't expected or even allowed to carry weapons around here. Fighting is either done hand-to-hand, or through pokémon.

Anyway, you'll find out they're really different from animals back home the more you interact with them. They understand human speech, for instance, even if they don't talk back. I had mounts back home, you know that, but these guys - when you can communicate with them, and they're actively looking out for you, they feel more like full partners than any horse or wyvern back home could.

[He laughs at the sight of the Meowth.] Aww, he's a cute little guy! Felix will like him - I swear that guy's on a quest to collect every cat-shaped pokémon he can find.