Huan Fen
Magnolia
"Hmmmm... Mmmmmm... Ghmmm..." Lots of frustrated noises came from the girl as she stared down at the list of directions the man at the Magnolia train station had written up for her. Fen was walking through the crowded market street, studying to paper with a rapidly deepening frown.
"I asked for directions and he wrote them down for me," She mumbled to herself.
"But I didn't think he'd write them in some strange language. I don't even recognise the letters..." She tilted her head to one side as she struggled to decipher the meaningless scribbles and held the paper out at arm's length with both hands, turning to this way and that. Finally, after an embarrassingly long time, her face cleared and she let out a quick exclamation.
"Oh!" She turned the sheet of paper around 180 degrees and suddenly the words made sense.
Her face burning slightly from the fact that she'd just spent the last half an hour trying to read a page upside down, Fen quickly ran through the directions and followed them to the large building she'd been looking for. Phoenix Wing. The moment she'd heard of the Wizard's Guild by that name, it had captured her attention. Being a full fledged Wizard meant joining a Wizard's Guild and, with a name like Phoenix Wing, she couldn't have asked for a better fit. It was like fate. And so Fen had made up her mind to go to Magnolia and had jumped aboard the very next train out of Hargeon Town, and then had to change trains when she realized she'd gotten on the wrong one.
Now she was here. Fen pushed the doors to the guild hall open and stepped inside, looking around with wide eyes at everything and everyone around her. She stood dumbfounded for a moment before gathering her wits and taking a more calculated look around. Her eyes came to rest on a bar and, lacking any other major landmark to navigate this new environment by, she made her way over to it. As she reached the bar she took a deep breath, girding herself to make a strong and confident first impression.
"U-umm..." she mewled out in a shaky voice.
"I-is the Master in? I'm...I'm a Wizard and, if... that is if he doesn't mind, I'd like to join." Talk about confidence...