Alisa was having a decent run here. Inbetween waking up and eating lunch, she'd tackled a B-rank mission which she still wondered if the rank shouldn't have been higher... After a long time pondering whether if it shouldn't have been lower. Guess messing with the law for no reason can easily confuse even the smartest of people. Then she had to watch over grandma, which proved a far more pleasant and relaxing job. After lunch, she could only really find one little bit of work to do, but it wasn't particularly troublesome... All she needed was to keep a certain person away from a critical location, also easily accomplished simply by leading him around the city of Orchidia.
In the meantime, the sun carried on its way down the horizon, providing a somewhat accurate measure of how much time she was taking on each and every mission. Yet her work was far from over. At this time of the year, there were plenty of jobs a travelling mage like her could only fulfil at night, and once of her employers in particular had a wide selection of those, just about any that she could think of. Indeed, her next job also involved looking for Dex miller, who once again had her meet him in his smoke filled office, just as last rays on sunset pierced through the half open shutters... Visible even through a cloud of smog thick enough to make her cough repeatedly, in a rather diselegant announcement of her presence. Not that she liked to announce herself such, but she didn't really have a choice in the matter.
Seriously, would it kill him to open the goddamn windows for a while? It doesn't even have to be a long while, just... Ugh... He was perfectly content simply stirring the rocks in his whiskey in between puff of smoke, before starting into yet another monologue, explaining this job in the process:
"Something haunts the night in Orchidia. Even I don't know what it is, and I don't know what scares me the most... The thing itself, or my not knowing. But It knows people fear it... And fear keeps it safe... But not for much longer. Tonight, I'll solve this case."
If nothing else, Alisa could sense a true, genuine hint of fright in his voice, something she didn't really feel last time when the guy was basically ordering her to fake a bloody massacre scene and catch the Rune Knight's attention. This guy may be insane, but she didn't really deem him a complete idiot... And she wondered just how much what he'd seen had to do with what she'd been seeing in Hargeon as the Halloween season neared them.
She'd find out soon, it appeared.
But first, before the sun set completely, Alisa had to find Lumen and bring them along with her, realizing how important it would be to get a light here. She had him ride on her shoulder, as he so often did, providing a light wherever they went, especially reliable as she stepped off the beaten path, towards the mist shaded river.