When it's not January, Feuilly definitely prefers the field by the stable, even if there are better places for practice. But right now? Yeah, he'll take an indoor climate that isn't going to turn his hands into stiff, cracked, aching, useless lumps--all by itself, without any help from getting bashed over the knuckles.

Still, the room holds sound in a way the open air doesn't, and he warms up self-consciously.