Life was a strange thing, how it walked, talked and figured you out more than you did yourself. Phoebe was sitting near the docks on a lower wall, shivering thanks to the cold but also trying to completely ignore that unsatisfied feeling of; the cold. She had no idea what she would do today, the battle inside her was a tiring one and a compensation had not been found yet. She leaned with her elbow on her knee and sighed loudly, but it didn’t matter for right now she was alone. She stared at the small people that were walking down at the docks, she missed being in Orchidia as well as in Magnolia. Hargeon hadn’t been mean to her, no on the contrary it had been very nice. She only felt twisted between what she had done, or what Persephone had done. She had to accept that she was hosting the goddess now. Which made the Goddess sigh as well and both would picture themselves sitting next to each other, staring at the people. ”There must be something to do, that keeps you distracted?” she tried, but Phoebe shook her head, distracted from a voice in your head was difficult, ”Only if you shut up.” For multiple reasons she didn’t mind to stay but also for multiple reasons she wanted to go to Magnolia, take King with her and go back home to Orchidia but she was already on the road for more than half a year and she had learned nothing.

No new information about her mother and even lost her magic to get a new one in return. The question why Phoebe was chosen by Persephone still remained open but the Goddess had not even tried to answer it and Phoebe had given up on that discussion for now. It was something she had done for quite a while now, discussing with the being in her mind. It had not worked at all. She simply had given up because of that, the question why Persephone had kissed Victor was dismissed by a quick; it looked like fun and we needed an distraction. Also not a very satisfying answer, which was another reason why Phoebe gave up. If only King was here, Persephone might give up on playing the monkey game as Phoebe had named it now. The Goddess wanted to show that men (and women for most matters) were dumb and not different than monkeys, which she had argued that she was sharing a body with a monkey and that made her very angry. Complaining for at least half an hour that she couldn’t even be compared with humans for starters and Phoebe had let her, only rolled her eyes and moved out of the hotel to find a place to sit and empty her mind for as far as possible. That’s how she ended up here on this wall. She leaned back and slung her legs over to the right side of the wall and stood up, ”Let’s find a job.”

As she made her way back into town to find a townsboard, something that wasn’t necessary because she had bumped into both Victors before and had joined a job. Her life in Hargeon was so easy but yet she longed for other things. She would try to find the board and ignore Persephone saying that a job on their own was boring. She didn’t care what the Goddess thought and she was going to teach miss Goddess over here what it meant to respect a host. She finally found the board, quicker than she had in Baska and she had not even done a job there, hence why she had lost a couple of jewels. Especially for missing out on Orchidia and travelling after a Blue Pegasus mage for some nature training. It meant she was able to do something now, that was at least a lot better than being able to do nothing, still the cold though. ”Pick that one.” Persephone lifted up Phoebe her hand and pointed at the Test the Waters quest, which was absolutely no problem. The problem was that Persephone lifted up her own hand and pointed, thank god no one was around, because that was embarrassing, luckily no one could hear the Goddess speak in her mind. She took the quest quickly and muttered something about thinking that Persephone was a nature goddess, not water but the Goddess started a whole speech about that water was a part of nature and that she could care for little bits of water and rivers and pools but not such things as great lakes and oceans, that she left to Poseidon and his minions and Phoebe seriously hoped never to bump into him.

The moment Phoebe took the quest was the moment when Raina herself showed up and almost made Phoebe jump, Persephone of course said that she had seen it coming, but Phoebe waved that away in her mind and she turned to look at Raina and have a small talk with her about wanting to help and she followed her to her lab after they visited some water spots to get some samples. Raina apparently felt very comfortable with the raven haired mage because she started talking about how she hated people to pollute water and Persephone happily joined into the conversation, agreeing that she hated how the monkeys, ehm human beings could be so bad for nature, water and green in general. So Phoebe let Persephone handle this, take care of the samples and help Raina test them and write down the information that the samples provided. Once the test was done and the tests result came in, she handed the clipboard to Raina who looked it over before the two of them, although one person to her, for her work. Phoebe thanked her for letting her help and wished her look in fighting pollution. She would do the same, she had no other choice with Persephone anyway. So she walked towards the door. Ready to leave, when Raina told her to stop.