Was it weird to think about how Port Hargeon never really sees snow around? It was starting to get colder up north in Fiore, but Hargeon was always a very sunny climate, an ideal hotspot for summer activities taking place even during winter. Absolutely magical, if you were to ask the Pyromage who knew little about climates and how they functioned. He’d probably explain that the sun was somewhat closer to Hargeon than any other place in Earthland, which just didn’t make that much sense… or did it?
Either way, the Phoenix had actually been tasked with helping out a newer member of Blue Pegasus to get started on their job hunting experience. It was always a very new and mind-blowing step in one’s life when they’d take their first quest ever, for quite a few expectations were to be met by any wizard in Fiore. That was why Daiko had decided to accompany them… but here was the thing-
The new member… Melina… she wasn’t exactly an ordinary wizard… but not in the way that you’d think at first. In all of Daiko’s life, he’d rarely encountered demihumans, and especially not one whose entire lower body was that of an arachnid (Alisa taught him that word, by the way), so despite him being the upperclassman in this quest, he still paled in comparison to her height and stature. He didn’t exactly know what to say to her at first when they met, so he just… stood there. Coda, too, couldn’t help but gawk with her beak wide open.
“… Spider lady?”
The rather hysteric dude behind Daiko – a certain Rune Knight named Collins – wasn’t enough to draw the Fire Mage’s eyes away from the arachnid demi-woman. Well, he himself could grow wings and talons, so he didn’t want to appear frightened or anything… he was far too mature for that. Pft.
WC: 312