She would barely recognize her own home town, when mostly Orchidia was green because of the plants, ivy and so on, you might forget the seasonal moments with their pretty pink of the cherry blossom and other flowers. Or she had kicked it away in her mind. No longer afraid to bump into people she knew, Phoebe would just dump her bags at home and notice that the shop was closed and that her father and sister were out. Her dad probably had his own booth on the market fair and her sister was probably flirting with twelve people at the same time.

Phoebe could imagine she was also wearing Phoebe her clothing. The raven haired mage shook her head, she had not seen her father after she changed magic and she wondered what he and Mary would say about that. She hoped that they would take it well, but Persephone was the only one she could depend on. Perhaps that did make her a bit nervous to meet her father again, she wanted him to approve of her, especially now she was second rate on her dead mother's list. She shouldn't think about that, she shouldn't think about anything that hurt her but there was this fire in her eyes and in the pit of her stomach that made her realize she could be perhaps too nice sometimes.

She stood at the beginning of the fair, staring at the stalls with the little shops, perhaps her father was somewhere around, but she could just enjoy her time in general. She didn't plan to shop, she planned to relax and not be bothered by anything in the past, she had to work out her way with Persephone and her power but soon enough; she wouldn't need anyone anymore.

Shoulders straight, and walk on. That's what Phoebe thought, she looked left and right again, still no sign of her father, which was a good thing. She didn't want to immediately be bound to family gatherings if she could enjoy her free time. So she decided to just mingle in the crowd, though it was the beginning of the afternoon, it wasn't very busy at this point. Perhaps there was something else going on where most people were and that would gave her enough space to breath and yet not be immediately spotted as there were enough people to hide behind.

For a short second Phoebe thought she saw her sister with a bunch of people but she wasn't even sure and the girl didn't even look at Phoebe so it was easier. She shrugged it off and listened to Persephone as her lilac eyes watched the stands and the descriptions, it would only be a matter of time before Phoebe would read about the stand of her father but he would be more in the middle which would be normal for him, being here before, "Now that sounds interesting." Persephone said, pulling Phoebe her attention away from her track of thoughts and seeing a description about fortune reading, "That's nonsense Persephone." The nature mage muttered but the Goddess seemed to want to know more while Phoebe was afraid of the risks and besides, most people were frauds anyway.

"You can never enjoy anything now can you?" The Goddess mentioned in the back of her mind as she guided Phoebe towards the stand to simply look at it, the deck looked amazing, this was something Persephone had watched when she was still in reign as you could call it. Phoebe simply was afraid to hear about the truth.

While the two of them were looking from a distance, the tarot reader or well that's how Phoebe called her in her mind and Persephone didn't correct her, came from behind the stand to change something on the sign, "I doubt she is a fraud in that case." the Goddess mentioned and Phoebe shrugged almost invisible, that was a risk, everyone could claim they didn't want to hear something like that. Perhaps she should say something about it, perhaps she should give in to Persephone her wishes and be the first to take the reading, after all, she was from Orchidia, some people would recognize her even if she did change a bit in appearance. She would like to say that her whole body become more elegant and that she was showing some inner beauty that she had not shown before, that perhaps happened thanks to Persephone but just the citizens from Orchidia wouldn't know about the Goddess.

Persephone actually wanted to meet her family but she understood that Phoebe needed time. Now that they took a few steps forward to inspect the desk, which Perse liked, Phoebe was of course seen by the reader. "Go on." Perse pushed and Phoebe turned her lilac eyes to the lady, "Sounds interesting." and she took the stool on her side and went to sit down, "So how does it work?" Would she know that they were two beings at once? She was slightly afraid of that, she didn't want to know Persephone her future but rather hers than Phoebe her own.

She didn't want to give off a persimistic feeling, especially not because it wasn't this reader her fault, it was just Phoebe being sceptic about her present and future plans and influences of things. She brushed the long hair over her shoulder and looked at Vivianna, without knowing her name that is and Phoebe wondered if she would ever show such a elegance as this lady did. Perhaps one day, she rather had not all the attention, basically also because she got bad attention and it was time to get rid of that too. Phoebe had to watch her step, stop being such an annoying little being and stop.. her track of thoughts in this way.

Phoebe asked her how tarot reading worked and listened while looking at the cards, as Persephone had thought before, they were beautiful. What would they want the reading be about, Phoebe wanted to avoid love but Persephone strangely seemed to be willing to get some answers about that. She couldn't help but nodd every time again that the lady explained something to her. The two were not really agreeing, we don't need anyone, was simply what Phoebe thought, which was usually the thought that the Goddess would linger on, "We would like to see the Glory." She just noticed too late she said we. So she tried to pretend she didn't, or else say it was a joke for the future to make her a queen. Glory could mean a lot though.

This mean she had to focus on the desk, which was a bit of a difficult thing with Persephone wanting something else but Phoebe tried, would she reach somethign amazing? She wanted to be better than she was now, she wanted to be as good as Goddess was before she was cast away.

Finally not long after Persephone gave in, love was useless, there were no other gods that they know about, well not that Persephone had met before, there was of course the soul that Xandra possessed but Persephone had not heard about the god before and only had been a bit uncertain as she had felt a presence when they were working together. At some point, probably here in Orchidia, she would meet Xandra again and they would figure out a few things together. Which Phoebe looked forward to but she didn't need Xandra to figure out answers, she and Perse would figure it out themselves. So she picked Glory as that was what Phoebe wanted to know the most, what happened before with Victor, King, Videns, Jeroy and Silver... surely made her hurt her soul. She didn't need men, they were all the same, weither they left her after kissing her, or didn't try to find her, left her for a friendship better or were the child that her mother loved the most, Phoebe didn't need anyone but Persephone and she kept repeating that and repeating that, trying to still the anger in the pit of her stomach but still it wouldn't leave, that would take ages.

Her lilac eyes turned towards the candle and she wondered if the person was a mage as well and what that meant for Phoebe, it could be a.. she was thinking to much negative thoughts. She had to focus on the thoughts of her own glory and she didn't want to think about the only negative things, the power Persephone had given her was a good thing, and many more things went through her mind. "Stop please." She had to be friendly and she looked at the card reader and at the deck of cards after that. Following the instructions giving out to her one by one.

Placing the deck in an order and picking five cards. Suddenly she felt nervous, but this was bullshit, right? Although she wasn't sure if she really thought that way or if it was Persephone.

Phoebe bit her lip softly as Vivianna started the reading, she wasn't entirely sure why she was so nervous. These cards didn't mean anything.. right? She kept saying that in her mind, removing the argument in her mind everytime that it could be real. It was that Persephone mentioned it could be like that in the past, that they were pretty accurate and at first Vivianna started possitively but Phoebe her lilac eyes only turned bigger and she started fumbling with her hands.

It was impossible, it's exactly what Persephone had warned her for. How did she know, did this count for her or for Persephone, she needed to know, she held her breath for a while and stared at Vivianna, listening to every word she said and understanding that her life would not be an easy one. She was even a bit afraid when it came to this. She looked at the cards and stared at the reader as she was done, she didn't seem to be happy about the reading either but it wasn't her influence, it was the cards. "That didn't sound like a great life." But both were now wondering whose life was that about. Because even if Persephone didn't say anything, Phoebe could feel that it was like her past and that she didn't want to share this information. But there was a raven haired mage that wouldn't be able to shut,

"So hypothetically, if I share two souls in one body, whose fortune will this be?" It was a risk but her future was way too important to her to be obsessed by something that could have meant Persephone all along. She didn't want to be hurt, she didn't want to get scars and leave things behind. Where was the beauty in life after all of is. There was already the start of what was happening what Vivianna told her and Phoebe knew what it meant, she had to set things up before she could and start leaving things behind.

Phoebe gave a wry smile to Vivianna when the tarot reader mentioned she shouldn't say that, "Don't worry, it's a part influenced by myself right?" she listened to the reader about the learning of mistakes, yeah the game of life wasn't always just fun and games. It only proved what Persephone had said before, perhaps that's what made it more scary than if it had been something unknown to Phoebe, she would grab some jewels out of her purse to pay the tarot reader. She wondered if the pain in her corrupted heart would be even more worse than it was at this part, she was already hurt enough, left behind, cast out and so on. And now even by her mother, "I would bear it as there is no other thing I can do," accept it and try to move on to the next chapter of the Game of Life. There would be no other option, it was good to have a warning.

"Green sounds lovely." Phoebe said when the reader offered her tea, perhaps it was best to have a friend that could inform her of her future, she turned to Persephone in her mind who only was silent, she wasn't sure if there was something the Goddess wasn't telling but at this piont it didn't change anything, their game would go on and Phoebe needed to become better and prepared for it, "My name is Phoebe, I would at least say thank you for the reading, a warning for the future is a nice one." But there was another question she had, which was her next, what if the person shared two souls. The reader seemed to be struggling with the answer, which Persephone found amusing, "At least not trying to give an answer at first start." The Goddess mentioned to Phoebe.

"Our minds are intertwined, but so is the body, there will never be a separated version of either of us, we just have to bear with it together, at least that means I am not alone." Phoebe said with an amusing smile on her face, perhaps this road on the path of the game would be even more amusing and she wondered how the reader would react, perhaps they would show for the second time in their togetherness, that Persephone the Goddess of Nature was back on the Earth Surface.

Phoebe looked surprised at the tarot reader, saying no to a piece of jewel? She gave a soft smile and Persephone seemed to mutter something about; and you called her a fraud. So she took the jewel back and put it in her purse. It was perhaps not that bad to just have conversations and not expect the worst. Even if her cards told her to be very aware of things that could happen and to be ready, she was but a beginner in playing the game that had been played with her but thanks to Persephone she could be ready, sooner than anyone would expect. It wouldn't be all that bad, it would sometimes be ashame but Phoebe would sure as hell be ready when it was necessary, she already suffered enough it was better to take the lead in her own life.

Phoebe looked at the reader getting the tea ready and introduced herself and she kept the soft smile on her lips now that she noticed Vivianna really cared about the readings but let it not control her, that was a good saying. It was a good instruction, "It is nice to meet you." She shouldn't let the reading define her, it was her own path picking. She looked at the cup with the little swirling tea leaves and nodded, now that was interesting because she had heard about it but never see a tea leaves reading. "let me do that." Persephone said in Phoebe her mind and the mage agreed, it would be fun as they were already on the track of thoughts to tell Vivianna about them.

By Vivianna her behavior, Persephone only became more interested, she didn't see humans as something valuable especially not considering Phoebe her memories, but she took up the cup and wrapped her hands around it, muttering Anthos while hiding her lips and give a soft smirk towards Vivianna as her eyes turned green and she allowed more magical power to take her, to use Phoebe and her long straight black hair changed, as if a wind passed them, her hair turned red from the top to the bottom and with that little breeze turned into slight wavy hair. Her bright red lips stared at the reader, wondering how she would react, "You interest me reader, the name is Persephone." Would this person have the knowledge about the old gods or would she simply understand the sense of a Goddess in front of her.

Her eyes were as green as the woods and curiously looking upon the Tarot reader, she had not even paid attention to her name as she had said that to Phoebe, monkeys all of them but the tarot reader was a very interesting one, Persephone would give her that. She lowered the tea cup that Vivianna had given Phoebe, she would try this out and the heath of the tea didn't bother the Goddess, she was too absorbed with someone in fear, which felt well for the vanity of the Goddess. The first time they actually did this, Phoebe had never suspected that it really worked but it was Persephone who chuckled lightly because of that. It was fun for the red haired Goddess to be free, to see her beauty in reflection. No one else would notice, she allowed Vivianna to see her like this, the others people would just see Phoebe, her magic being able to show and her soul being the first in the body now instead of normally Phoebe.

"As you should." Persephone said with a purr in her voice as Vivianna admitted that she got scared, "Humans were teached in history to be afraid of Gods and Goddesses for their power, you can't help it." She said with an amusing smile on her face. She introduced herself after that, telling Vivianna that she was interesting, "Correct, I am not. While my being has been forgotten by the humans through the ages and thus no longer pray or sacrifice in my name, I lost the power of holding a human body, all I can do now is be a supportive person in the back of someone's mind and support them with the power of magic that I do have." She explained, who would believe the Tarot reader anyway if she dared to tell anyone about Persephone. "So as Phoebe said, we are separate beings but we can't be separate from each other now I chose her as my champion." which was a too fancy word for the vessel but Phoebe didn't mind it in this case. She took a sip of the tea and looked at it, it was rather nice as well.

Persephone her green eyes stared at Vivianna seeing what she would do next, she had not missed a heartbeat in her movement but at this point the Goddess had not cared about it yet and she still had that right smile on her lips, "Officially it's Goddess of the Underworld, Spring, Flowers and Vegetation." She looked up, "But you could say I did influence autumn as well. If my mother wasn't so obsessed." The good thing for the Goddess was that most people only linked her to the flowers, the vegetation and the beauty of spring, but the Goddess was so much more and with that the Goddess of the Underworld after her so called marriage, it had not gone really well but that didn't matter at this point. She had managed to get away from that, but her mindset for the ruler of the Underworld would still stick with her, the influence on her plans for the future, but first it would be necessary to help Phoebe being rightly shaped for this plan that they called the Game of Life.

Persephone couldn't help but let out a laugh when Vivianna asked her if she needed Phoebe, "I don't need anyone, but Phoebe is a nice kid and I don't mind her." To believe that a goddess needed a mere human to be able to survive was a bit too much, she would let the question go, as the reader had interested her but it was a dumb question, humans had that moment in their life that they couldn't ask stupid questions. "We might not have gotten along in the first place but right now we are like good friends, I would say sisters as you humans call that but it won't be the same for me, I never really liked my siblings." She brushed her red hair over her shoulder and sat up straight, no longer leaning on her elbows to get closer to Vivianna, she looked at her tea cup as the reader still offered her a reading and she nodded, "I'm very much interested." To which it meant that she would need to finish the tea and give the cup back to Vivianna.

Persephone placed her left elbow on the stand and leaned on it with her left cheek, wondering what Vivianna would think, she had no power to read her mind. So she simply tried to read the expresion of the human being but actually the Goddess didn't mind to not know what Vivianna thought, she might be an interesting reader and the first of the beings that she told and showed herself towards but that didn't mean Persephone would play this game for very long. But the tarot reader only became more interesting.

Persephone lifted up her cheek from her left hand and stared with an amusing look and a smile on her face towards Vivianna as she bowed towards her, "No need to apologize, I appreciate your interest in me as well. Well it was nice to have someone that knew how to act towards a Goddess that is. She listened to Vivianna explain how it would work for her to get a reading from the teacup and she drank the last sip of her tea and did exactly what Vivianna said to have it fixed. While she did what Vivianna said so, she thought about what she wanted to know, she wasn't so interested in her future, she knew actually pretty well what was going to happen, "Why not a general one?" She said with a small smile as she tapped the cup for the third time.

Persephone had asked about her fortune and she would simply see how it goes, little did she know how her world would be turned upside down in a couple of days together with Phoebe but yeah that's the thing about futures, they aren't set in stone. "That's okay, let's just see it as something fun and a learning thing, who knows who gets on your path in the future." She said with a soft grin, it was still funny to see Vivianna her reaction and Persephone really liked it. She frowned with the reader her second question since this well start of the reading, "Well before Phoebe everything was just a long day or year, depending on the seasons. Those will go by in the blink of an eye. But now with Phoebe, it's a lot of days." Because she had to get used to the normal living way.

She would sit up straight at the person and the cup in her hand that was broken and she wasn't sure what to say about it and there was an expression of concern on her face, she didn't say anything and let Vivianna get a hang of herself because the Goddess surely was interested what was happening. She watched herh ands as the cup was there to see if she got anything to see about the tea leaves, she thought she saw no red drops of blood but another colour but she let it go, not sure if that was what she saw. "It looks very worrying." The Goddess showed a worried frown on her face, "I'm terribly sorry about the cup." But what did it mean? Did Vivianna see anything?

She didn't know what else to say, to be fair the Goddess never apologized for anything and she wasn't even sure if she had seen her bleed or if it was just minor scratches from the cup, so what to say was what Persephone thought. All she could do was apologize about the cup, it was probably not possible to predict a future of a Goddess, or at least not by a human oracle. Though the reading she had given Phoebe had been very accurate, it had exactly described the plans that the Goddess had for what they called the Game of Life, her influence on what she wanted and what was best for Phoebe got a bit of this.

As she ought to do, Vivianna asked if the Goddess was alright, but Persephone didn't care about that for now, she was obviously fine, nothing had come really her way, "Physically no scratch, mentally a bit worried to be honest." She couldn't help but say as she asked, "That's not important either, you were holding the cup, how are your hands? Need any help?" She was no healer though, but there were a few magical and naturaly ointments that stopped bleeding and quickened the healing process. She could provide those with a flik of her wrist.

Her green eyes met Vivianna's as she looked up to her and to be fair Persephone found it some sort of courage, perhaps she looked vunerable now, but there were a lot of things that a broken cup probably could mean and she prefered some answers if that was possible. She nodded slowly when Vivianna explained it never happened before and she held her breath when she tried to explain, something from the past, demands to.. resurface. There were a lot of troubles that Persephone had in the past, heck she even lost her body because of that but what would be something like that, a problem like hers and her heart skipped a beat, both meaning bad and good. That wasn't possible. Little did she know that tomorrow morning almost exact the same hour, that problem would surface, Lucifer would return to her or well more or less.

But that wasn't all that the reader could tell her and Persephone opened her perfect red lips to say something but she couldn't. What she described was Lucifer, how she had loved him, how she had given him all she could but he destroyed it, he burned it, he burned her and he would return to her. She felt a drop, a tear, drip down from the left corner of her right eye, past her nose, onto her cheek and fell upon her hand that she clutched with the other on her lap. "That's impossible." she whispered to herself, but that meant that she would have to prepare herself, as the reading from before had been accurate and the explosion of the cup, she believed Vivianna and that was a good thing that they came here.