summertime sadness

The day didn't feel especially warm, even when the young girl reached Magnolia. This was no shock however, given that she grew up in a desert that had a blistering heat at day and a chilling ice cold at night. She was also connected to deserts more than any sort of element, despite being able to wield some in her magic. This neutrality was exactly why she wasn't affected in any positive or negative ways by the magic in the air. One could call her lucky, but it also meant she couldn't get the perks that went along with such things either. Anything would be nice that could help her feel more different than all the others with her same type of magic in her old home. This meant that she still wore the same thick red button up shirt that she did every day. Getting to the location reminded her of a sillier version of a marketplace, wild with noises, scents, foods, and people. Though unlike a market this place had games. It wasn't hard to see things with her senses in such an atmosphere, making it easier to find the location she was supposed to meet up with someone else. People may have been celebrating summer solstice here, but such a thing wasn't really celebrated where she came from. Then again she wasn't sure if her old home even had seasons. Did silver wolves guild location have seasons? She was pretty sure that it was always covered in snow so it was unlikely that it was all that affected by seasons.

Well, she wasn't going to get in a celebratory mood just because other people were. Their moods was not discovered through the vision in which she lacked, but the sounds of their movements and vocalizations. People moved and sounded different when in a good mood. Her own mood was cheerful and eager, as that was sort of her default mood on most days anyway. The Talea didn't need an event to perk her up, work or studying usually did that enough for her anyway. Most of her life had been spent in an orphanage, so she had been trying her best to make money years before ever leaving that home. Back then it made her happier to try to help her 'family' and herself to be less hungry, but her older brother was a lot better at that than she was back then too. He had been at an age where he had been allowed to work jobs in that city, at best she was allowed to make silks to sell at that time. Maybe that was one of the reasons why she enjoyed working so much in the guild, because she used to be envious of others making it that way. She knew jewels couldn't get you everything though. If it could, then she would have saved up to buy permission to go to her old home. It was strange, her current home was nicer with more food, more books, and better at keeping warm at night. Despite those things, her old home had felt warm in a way that was hard to duplicate, even when her brother's nearby.

That was the sort of heat that was worth celebrating to her, not a particularly warm and long day. Being blind, the sand spider didn't know how to look for fellow mages through sight. The child merely followed the closest presence of magic after getting close enough to the meet up location. Her eight legs quietly and quickly moved along until getting close enough to touch the magical point. Was it a person? A hand reached out, soon feeling the confirmation of skin. This probably meant it was a person, right? "Are you Athena from Fairy Tail? I'm Song Talea from Silver Wolf. I'm sorry if you aren't, I haven't felt her before so I don't know what to look for besides magic."

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She hadn't grabbed Athena, but it was definitely someone with a magical presence. That person spoke of an endless summer very loudly. They were actually talking about a lot very loudly. This was one of the many issues of being blind, the issue of finding a person if you were in a crowd but more than one person had magic. Wait though, why did a game attendant have magic? Something like that would have been normal where she came from, but that's because all of her people had magic. It wasn't normal for those in fiore who had magic to just attend booths, right? But of course around that time a voice started demanding the games shut down. Song wasn't surprised when the person was laughed at. Was this female voice the person the Talea had been looking for? Her pale yellow irises looked over, the non pupiled eyes not actually having a good reason to look in that direction. It was still something the spider tended to do when she was focusing on an area or a person, looking in that direction. "You can't shut them down without proof they're doing anything, otherwise mages wouldn't need to be hired to do stuff. Are you Athena? I'm looking for the person I'm supposed to work with. I've never felt her presence before, so I don't know how to find them."

The girl pointed at the booth worker, "They have magic so I thought the worker was the person I was looking for. Why do the booths have magic embedded in them though? Is it to make them look extra special? I'm blind so I can't see anything, but I can feel for it if it's not color related. Is it reward related? Will something special happen if all the games are beaten? We don't have summer festival things in the desert because we don't have hotter or colder seasons." It was common for the young girl to ask many things, her attention going back and forth from the stranger that had spoken at one of the booth workers to he booth worker. Something she didn't expect from her load of questions? Bad people not liking a kid that asks too many questions. Song was still an innocent child that so far hadn't had a job yet that had ended up getting trouble for asking too many questions. A realization that something was wrong didn't strike her until an attack hit next to her from a different location. Festival goers were now in a panic, running and screaming. The chaos and noise made it easier to see, even if she didn't fully comprehend what was going on. The getting attacked was known, that people were panicking, just not who, nor how many.

Things were a bit more complicated than previous jobs. To make matters worse the young spider wasn't even sure she had found her job partner yet. Why did they even attack?! Song slung out some white threads, creating a spell that became a blade. This blade quickly propelled itself, hitting one of her attackers. Now how do you find out which persons are the attackers or how many there are when so many people are around? Without them throwing attack spells in your direction.

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If there was something that didn't help Song figure out what she was looking for, it tended to be visual descriptions. That was normally pretty useless since she cannot see how anyone looks, nor sense in enough detail to tell what anyone is. Telling someone to find your enemies based on their appearance to someone is blind is generally a bad idea over all, akin to telling them to find a color. Song herself could never find even red or yellow, despite both colors always being on her person. For this reason telling a blind person to look for visual cues was typically asking them to do the impossible, see. But fire and light was a good way to describe people, that was something she could feel for. Both fire and light create heat. It sounded like that was a commonality between the majority of the enemies, which made sense for finding enemies. Its made it easy to find them once she focused on it. Athena had a 'cool' feel to her magic, while the enemies had a heated feel to theirs. This meant that it was still enough information given to her to help the spider figure out who the enemies are pretty easily.

"Nice to meet you Althea! Yes, i'm the desert spider Song Talea from Silver Wolf!" The young girl giggled a bit, her fingers quickly weaving black silk threads, creating a spell. One of her hands gave a glow once it was activated, touching her own face to activate it. With her speed boost spell now used , she could move and cast at a much faster rate. This was perfect in a high energy situation. The young girl started to quickly weaving another spell, casting holy blade. She was already weaving another spell as soon as the blade shaped spell flew off to hit its target. It was small, but that made it easier to avoid hitting the panicking people in the public place. Using golden threads she wove her next spell, some spiked bronze colored knuckles. With this temporary weapon the youth sped around, attacking any and every nearest target. She couldn't tell which enemies she was taking down, only that the numbers of enemies were dropping lower. "Thank you for telling me they're all hot, I can find them all fine now! Can't tell which one is which, but an enemy is an enemy, right?

Let's kill them all. Sorry for accidentally turning things into a battle." Her demeanor was cheerful, a smile on her face. Blood had spilled on all sorts of places on the girl now, but thankfully her clothes was a sort of red that allowed the blood to blend in well enough. It wasn't perfect, but it didn'[t exactly stand out. She didn't realize when her attacks hit the boss, or that was a boss. The spider only knew that an enemy wasn't dying like all the other ones did so far. That's why she kept attacking, keeping her speedy steps a bit faster than the large beast. Despite how innocent she had acted and looked previously, the child was good at fighting. Of course she fell apart when things weren't so predictable, but that wasn't important right now. The situation wasn't so unpredictable, not as much as one might think. The civilians weren't an issue if you knew where they were, it meant they were easier to avoid harming. If she knew where the enemies were than she could hit them. Knowing how to find them made it easier to feel out their current location. This was how Song attacked so well.

All that the younger Talea needed to take down her enemies most of the time was to find them, than use her stealth or speed to strike hard. This normally worked well, but it started to fall apart when people used long range attacks on her, or didn't fall down as fast as expected by her. Thankfully she wasn't anywhere near panicking yet against the boss, but she was starting to feel a little frustrated.

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