After his long travels from Hargeon, Tiên was tired to say the least. Walking on foot was fun but it was also annoying at times, but in the end, the moments of interacting with the animals who kept him company along the way were always worth it. Stepping into the bright like town of Hosenka made him feel at home, a warm feeling slowly building in his chest as he headed through the streets, the further he moved the more relaxed his expression became. Making his way to where he figured the hot springs were, Tiên took in his surroundings more and more, it really was like Joya in a way, though more the areas of Joya that he wasn't really meant to explore when he was little but still did with all his friends, plus the tag-a-longs of his brother and his friends. The lights that shined around the streets, and as he glanced across the bridge, eyes falling upon all the hotels bathing in the misty effect from the hot springs, made the whole town almost feel make-believe, like something that was an illusion.

Tiên softly shook his head, it was real so it was time to rid those thoughts. Walking along the bridge, just to step into the first hotel with an onsen he found, Tiên turned to the receptionist and tilted his head a bit, like a short bow, something akin to a greeting. It was only polite after all. The murmurs that filled the room, after he had entered went ignored, as he smiled gently at the lady, shifting the satchel over his shoulder that contained his wearables and some sustenance he packed for his travels. "Hello." Looking around he turned back to the lady at the desk. "A single room… If possible?"

"Ah! Uhm yes… Sir…"

Blinking Tiên nodded as the lady fumbled a light flush on her cheeks, which had him rolling his eyes again. 'Here we go again…' Thinking to himself as the others around him also began gossiping more. When he was handed the key, Tiên nodded once more with a soft thank you, just to make his way to his appointed room. His first plan of action was to relax, so dumping his belongings he would head to the baths of the hotel first. Finding them was easy, just follow the steam, and once he arrived, he was thankful that the men's bath was empty, the last thing he needed was people disturbing him with annoying questions as he was trying to relax. Grimacing a little when the ends of his hair became wet, he would've tied it back but he had forgotten his hair ties back in his bag. Tiên just sighed when the warm water slowly helped relax his muscles. This is what he really needed. Relaxation was a great needed thing, even though he meditated back in Hargeon, meditation only did so much, and sometimes it just was not enough.

Sapphire eyes dulled as he glanced over the faded scars, memories flooding back to training days back home. 'Just forget, Xiānlián. New start.' The soft smile Tiên had dimmed as he just let out another sigh. He was here to relax, nothing else. Sinking a little further into the water, Tiên closed his eyes a little, enjoying the silence, well as quiet as it could get, if you didn't count the noises from across the bridge or other hotels.

He was enjoying the peace and quiet, as he just sunk furthering into the water, the steam filling the area more, making the foggy atmosphere thicker. The heat surrounding him made him terribly comfortable and relaxing, the soaking of old wounds felt like the stress that had built up for so long was just melting away with each second that passed, as he leaned against the piled rocks, set in a way that displayed a splendid scenery. Though he did find it weird that this onsen didn’t have the bamboo water pipes to let the cold water run into the hot water, like back in Joya. He enjoyed hearing the tap of bamboo pipes whenever they visited the onsens after training, it was relaxing until Xiānlíng would attack him with water, and then they’d get moaned at for being mischievous.

Tien was almost on the verge of dozing off, until he heard a voice echo around the bath. A woman's voice to be exact, and a voice he didn’t think he would forget. Sapphire eyes snapped open, seeing the misty outline of a shadow in the steam surrounding the bath. “Please don’t be who I think…” Mumbling to himself, as the new arrival spoke up once more, and Tien felt himself grow more nervous, because if anything, he was having something like dejavu. Maybe if he just stayed quiet, then the woman wouldn’t notice. Tien slowly began to sink more into the water, once again his cheeks flustering a faint pink, that he would completely blame on the heat of the bath, than anything else, but alas all his efforts were in vain, because soon enough he was being greeted, and now there was no way out of this, not unless he possible wanted to be called certain things, or even stay in one piece. “Mhm. H-hello, again…”

Whoops, he had slipped up. Maybe there was a little bit of hope that the shadowed beauty, did not hear that quiet again or that his voice didn’t sound too deep to yell ’Male’ because if Tien’s assumptions were correct on this woman, then he may be in big trouble. It had been a good while since he had last seen Alisa, and Tien himself had changed quite a bit, to a certain extent. The only part that had not changed, was the part where he was still sometimes mistaken for a lady. Either way, whether this lady was Alisa or not, this was the only time that Tien would ever fear for his pride, because he was positive that it was her voice, after all she had a very distinctive voice in his opinion.

Blinking at his higher up, Tien just quietly nodded, it was a coincidence that both times Tien had met Alisa, it had to do with hot springs. His cheeks flustered a little more as he tried to keep his eyes from glancing too much at the lady not too far from him. His mind wandered to how people would react if they found out, but honestly the young warrior stopped those thoughts instantly in their tracks, because Tien did not think it would bode well for his health if people found out that he had shared a bath twice with Alisa Vollan, the now head of Blue Pegasus.

“I have… been as well as I can…” He tried to keep the sentences short, he was positive his voice had changed since the last they met, if he spoke too much, Alisa was most definitely able to notice the deep tone unlike before hand. “Y-yourself? I uh…” Clearing his throat a little, he sighed to himself. “I heard… You are the head of BP now?” A short nod left him, as he glanced at her once. When they first met, he was not a part of the Blue Pegasus, but he was planning on maybe joining, and well all things considered, that inevitably had happened anyway. “Congrats...” Averting his eyes once more, Tien went back to staring at the water. At least that hadn’t changed, if he remembered correctly this was also how he reacted the first time they had met.

Flicking the water quietly, before running his fingers through the liquid, Tien did wonder how long he had been in here for, but also at the same time he did not care, because for once he was stress free, and that is all that mattered to him. Being stress free, plus he got to speak with Alisa again, although he did wish it was on less dangerous circumstances, although the last time this happened it did go well, but he did not really want to find out what will happen, the instant that Alisa finds out that he was in fact male, and not female. Actually just in general he was planning on keeping it quite as much as possible until Alisa wanted to leave like last time, that she was in fact in the men's bath. He wanted no trouble, he just wanted peace and quiet right now. Tien was not looking for trouble and he definitely was not looking for trouble with a strong mage like Alisa, who just happened to now be his guild master.

Tiên nodded with a quiet hum when Alisa had said she was happy that he joined, and honestly Tiên had to agree, he felt so much better in Blue Pegasus than what he had in the previous guild he was in. In Blue Pegasus everyone even though they seemed albeit self centered to the public, Tiên felt that it was not the case with the people he had already met, and Alisa in general, their now guildmaster. “Ah uhm, I felt… Blue Pegasus was more… for me, in some way.” Nodding to himself as he explained, he hoped that was the right thing to say, he wasn’t fond of crowds, which is another thing that always happened in Fairy Tail. Crowding. It just was not for him, and it was one of the reasons he wanted to leave. “Nh. You are doing a good job…” Scratching his cheek, sapphire eyes glanced over at the women. “I feel much better now that I do know our guildmaster… And it’s calmer… Than where I was before.” Even though Fairy Tail acted like a family, the guild was a riot in itself, plus Tiên already had one of those, a family that is, albeit broke, yes, but a family nonetheless. He didn’t want people to act like a family to him, so he wanted to find his own family that resided in Fiore, and not Joya, but it didn’t mean he would forget his actual family.

Running his hand through the water, Tiên gathered his hair and pulled it over one of his shoulders, he was slowly getting comfortable again around the woman, just like last time. Nodding when she had mentioned his former guild, Tien let out an exhausted sigh, glancing at her once more. “I was a bit, conflicted whilst still at Fairy Tail… I was new to Fiore in general, so it was… hectic.” Pausing Tiên thought over his words, and how to word what he wanted to say without it seeming strange. “Mhm… I think… the first time I met you was what tipped the scales so to say.”

Dropping his hands back into the water, Tiên stared across the springs, before turning back to Alisa a tad bit. “You asked me about my skin care routine if I remember right?” A low chuckle left him as he recalled it, also when they first met, he had actually spoken to Alisa in Sinese and she understood him perfectly, and that was also probably what had tipped the scales. The fact that he could speak freely and would still be understood. “I haven’t been up to much, I recently decided to take up the blade again… I still wonder about woodlands though.” Clenching his hand into a fist, and unclenching, the callouses from using his blade often showing up once again like when he was little, “I got intrigued by Hosenka, they say it’s like Joya mostly, but I feel a hint of Sin here too, in the darker areas if get what I mean…” Turning to face the women a little, Tien tilted his head, she had questioned him on what he had been up to lately, but he was intrigued on how she had been, minus the whole becoming the guildmaster. "How have you been though Alisa?"

Tiên glanced at the lady, now closer than before, when that happened he did not know and he should really start paying attention, maybe he was a little too relaxed in this heat. A bubbling feeling of panic began to rise inside Tiên when Alisa had set a hand against his arm, feeling that she would realise that he wasn’t female and was actually male, after all muscles were more prominent to touch on males than females, no matter the skin routines, and when you’re swinging a sword around more hours in a day than eating and sleeping, muscles are bound to be noticeable. Nodding softly to her words, Tiên turned his gaze from her back to messing with the ends of his hair. Ah, he should get them trimmed, split ends were the worst to maintain. Ling would go crazy on him, if he was still home, moaning at him for not taking care of the hair he was so testy over, the hair he hardly allowed anyone to brush, except his mother and past partner.

Snapping back into the conversation, when he heard the flirty tone from Alisa, Tiên felt his ears burning at the words that left her. Words trapped in his throat as he tried to save himself, even though he was positive how he worded it would sound strange at all, but when she winked at him, Tiên just blinked before letting out a silent chuckle. He panicked for no reason, Alisa was playful the first time they met, how did he forget that little detail of his now guildmaster.

“Well, I thought if I took it up again, I would be a little closer to the ones I left behind in Joya... “ Staring at the calluses on his hands from how hard he would grip his blade sometimes in his self training. Glancing at the women, Tiên tilted his head, the name she had mentioned rang a bell, but he didn’t listen to gossip much, not his type of thing. 'Sofia?' Tapping his lips he shook his head as he really couldn’t remember where he had heard the name, but the aforementioned lady seemed very important to Alisa. “I’m sure she understands even if she is troubled…” Shrugging Tiên smiled at Alisa. “Maybe share some of the workload? Like… A right hand man or well women in this case?”

Shrugging Tiên just sunk further into the water, honestly with how long they had been in here, it probably was time to get out, but then again, he hasn’t seen Alisa in a while after exploring Fiore more when they parted from their first meeting, and then picking up the blade once more, stumped his plans to leave Fairy Tail and join Blue Pegasus longer than he was hoping. Nodding Tiên closed his sapphire eyes and grinned a little when she mentioned that experience is the key, and she was correct on that one, Tiên wasn’t going to deny that, having experience really did help you in the long run, but sometimes learning on the job was even better.

“Experience is key, but… It’s like with the blade or finding the right plants for skin products…” Tiên was already positive she knew this little key factor as well, glancing at the lady, “Learning as you go is inevitable, and also the best kind of experience… Don’t you think?”

Turning back to the sky he fell quiet again, ‘That’s what they would say anyway…’ A small frown laced his lips as he sighed. He missed his friends back in Joya a lot, but he was free in Fiore, and that’s what they pushed him into doing, after the loss of Syn.