Find the boys.

The ruckus of your housemates in the common room fills your ears as you enter the main doors of House Phoenix. Despite the activity, your attention is drawn to a new paper on the otherwise blank noticeboard. Reading it over, you learn there is to be a house meeting tomorrow night in the dining hall and it is signed by Ophelia. "She never mentioned that. I wonder what it's about. " You think to yourself

Making your way down the hall, deciding Brice's room might be the best place to search for your friends, you stop outside the door and knock. The sounds of laughter can be heard from within before the door opens to reveal Noah.

"Oh, hey. Come on in." He greets you, opening the door wider.

Despite its larger dimensions, the room Brice and Noah share feels more cramped than your smaller single room. Brice is sitting on what you assume is his bed, one of Noah's signature gourds in his hand. With the top off, he takes a quick sniff that causes his face to grimace in disgust

"Well look who it is." Lee says from his seat on one of the desk chairs in the back of the room. "How were the gardens, lover boy?" He jokes.

"Pleasantly serene" You smirk back at Lee.

"I bet." Brice laughs, sealing the gourd and sitting it under the bed.

"Yeah, what's up with that goofy grin?" Noah asks.

"He had himself some alone time with Parisa." The wide smile on Lee's face hinting at what may have transpired.

"That cute House Pegasus girl? How did that go? " Noah urges you to spill it.

"We enjoyed ourselves." You begin to say. "Until Mr. Lockman nearly caught us."

"No way! Talk about getting caught with your pants down." Lee laughs.

"Nice." Noah congratulates you. "I wish I could get a girl like that."

"While you were out having fun, your girlfriend came storming into the house, slamming doors and stomping upstairs. Caused quite the scene." Brice adds.

"Girlfriend?" A look of confusion plastered on Noah's face. "Harmony?"

"Not really, she just went off on him at dueling practice today. Hard." Brice explains the earlier joke.

"Hell yeah, she did." Lee jumps out of his chair to come pat you on the back. "But my man bounced back."

"Well, that, I don't envy." Noah laughs.

"What is with that girl?" You ask. "What do I do about her?"

"Typical Ice Queen for you." Lee shakes his head.

"Honestly, lay low, like the rest of us. I bet, if you give her some time, she will move on to being angry at someone else. Trying to fix it will only make things worse. " Brice adds his typical level-headed reasoning.

"Yeah, give her the cold shoulder." Noah adds with a laugh.

"No." Brice argues. "Don't be a dick. Just give her some space and try to relax."

"Thanks, Brice." You tell your only seemingly rational friend. "So anyway. What have you guys been up to?"

"Oh, tell him, Noah." Lee says excitedly.

"Potions of underwear breathing." Noah presents another gourd in a grand gesture.

"Yeah? What are you going to do with that? Aside from the obvious." You ask.

"My brother, who used to attend classes here, says there is an underground cavern in Seven Winds. He and his friends would hang out there. They would sometimes drink, or take girls there, or whatever they didn't want to get caught by the professors doing."

"So what's the potion for? We have to swim to get there?" You press the question.

"Yeah, it's underneath a pond covered in imp-feather lilies." He affirms.

"Ok. Sounds ingesting enough. When do we check it out?" You ask.

"I have an artificing workshop tomorrow." Noah admits. "Then there is the house meeting tomorrow night. So I was thinking the day after."

"Yeah, I saw that on my way in." You say. "What's that about?"

"It's probably just some usual first of the year welcome, we're all a team, go House Phoenix type of thing." Brice adds his assumption.