fated for : @omorfias ⋆ myung , ga eun .
location : the bonfire, the night of june 17th.
normally, phia would be seconds away from nodding off at this hour of night. tonight, however, her brain would not stop moving a mile a minute. the light from the fire flickers on her features, as if communicating something she can't quite make out. she stares back regardless, desperately seeking divine wisdom. perhaps it was hephaestus on the other line — the call not quite coming through. why he would contact her, phia wouldn't know. she only hopes that he'd have some advice to offer concerning tomorrow's quest. she's aware that she is not alone — keenly so, her stygian iron gladius laid across her lap, having just finished re - wrapping its hilt with painstaking care. " are you nervous? " she asks, recognizing the voice as her own but unsure how the words had come to slip from her lips without leave.