A wizard's career starts

Today had been a moderately acceptable day so far, but her job had been disgustingly simple: go retrieve a lost pair of shoes that the owner had left at a foreign-style restaurant the night before. Because the establishment had belonged to a mage (regardless of the fact that said mage barely knew more than a shortcut for making dumplings) the owner had insisted that another wielder of magic was required to fetch the lost boots. Left to Leah on account of her being barely a C Rank mage, the mission was complete in less than thirty-five minutes. This time was comprised of walking nearly all the way across the island, much to her dismay.

Anyways, the uninteresting job was over by now, and she had begun to walk home. Since barely an hour had gone by since she first set out to meet with the client, it was still rather early in the morning. As she debated to herself whether it would be shamefully indolent to go straight back to the guild hall and doze for the rest of the day, Leah's eyebrow twitched as a few words floated through the air to reach her ears. ...ocean's grey waves...shore...waters... Her mind zeroed in on the voice in an attempt to completely block out any mention of the sea; this was an unsuccessful try although it did end up allowing her to discern that the voice was male and comparatively young. Probably still older than her by a decent bit, though.

Fighting a yawn, the redhead made a split second decision and turned to face the direction of the sound. Surprisingly, or maybe not considering that it was indeed a rather dreamy and angelic voice, a soft color similar to that of flax filled the area as a glow. Even from a distance away as she was, it seemed as though either puffs of snow, cotton, or pillow down were materializing and drifting to the ground as the voice went on. Her curiosity piqued, Leah continued towards the sound. Unsurprisingly, upon reaching the small section of the street she witnessed a young man standing on a bench and singing. His precarious position and striking ivy colored eyes somehow touched a chord within her (no pun intended) so the redhead stepped up more into the vicinity.

"Hey stranger," she greeted with a wry smile and applause after he had ended the song, "What brings you to the Phoenix Isles?"

Admittedly, music was not Leah's thing. The girl had written many a love poem which was then thrown out week-old trash, but man seemed to make singing alright. With a slight smile, she nodded as the man introduced himself and likewise was reaching out her hand for a polite shake when the name Golden Phoenix was mentioned. She started and took a double look at the man.

"Why er- ye, I mean, I do know whereabouts the guild hall is... but I jus' don't know if I would be able t' take y- oh, well, that would be nice," she said as the young man questioned Leah as to whether or not she wanted another song. But he then began to greet another young woman who had entered the scene, and the redhead was quite sure the dark haired mage would be the perfect person to assist anyone wanting anything to do with the guild. She was one of the guild masters, after all... "On second thought, I'd better be goin' now, but as like, it was nice to meet ye, Akira. Maybe I'll see ye around." It wasn't really as though she had enough confidence to lead people around the island anyways. After all, the phoenix was quite nice to anyone with the stamp and that extended to those travelling with her, but it was better to be safe than sorry. Summer would take care of him, especially with the--

"Right, so welcome to the Phoenix Isles, Akira. Good luck to ye," she said, smiling faintly before backing away and surreptitiously running off. Whatever had just happened, the crazy stunt with his eyes and all that shaking made Leah nervous. If it ended up being that she was needed, well, it wasn't as though the redhead was particularly hard to find. Yet the girl trusted her GM and any other members to guide him along the way, because right now she was so perturbed that she probably would have led both of them into a wyvern nest or something. Not that there were wyverns on Phoenix Island...

Leah's out, but welcome, Akira/Julius!