[se] one day in the city

Phoebe

Phoebe looked up, wide-eyed and rather confused. Sure, she was relatively known around Stormbreak by now, but not so well known to expect to be called out in a crowd. Especially by someone other than Harper, and this voice was certainly not his. Glancing around, her eyes finally fell on Noah, of all people. "Noah??" she said, the shock evident in her voice. But the curve of her lips made clear enough that her surprise wasn't rooted in bad feelings, but pure confusion. "How...whyever aren't you in Halo?" she blubbered, hurrying over to meet the man halfway. She knew he loved his home deeply, so why would he have resigned himself to a whole season away?

Of course, worry-wort she was, her mind went straight to the worst.

"Is everything alright? It is good to see you but...why are you here, has something happened?" she stammered in concern. With the world on the brink of a war it was hard to imagine anything other than a catastrophe bringing Noah away from his beloved snowy mountains and plains.

she's changed, you can see it in her eyes