Soon after the incident at the church everyone had split into three groups. The group against Regis mining in the pond, The group for Regis Mining in the pond and the group that didn't really care.

In the group against mining in the pond stood; Me, Felicia, Taro, Elliot, Natalie, Julia, Mirabelle, Denny, Sabrina, Wada, and Charlie.

In the group for the mining was; Regis, Chen, the miners, and Mark.

The last group was: Witch Princess, Pierre, Shea, and Alisa and Nathan who didn't want to be the cause of the violence they thought would come. And sure enough it did.

I walked into the Café and sat next to Isaac. So what's the news on the pond?"

He sighed, turned and looked me straight in the eye. "He's started the dig and I need work."

"YOU'RE ON HIS SIDE?!"

Isaac sighed. "I suppose you could call it that."

And I never drank tea with him again.

One day Taro entered his house while I was chatting with Natalie. "Well it's official!"

"What is?", asked Felicia.

"War" he sat down at the table. "And he's only allowing two teams."

"Teams? Like a game?", asked Natalie.

"That's how he put it. The others are gonna have to make up their minds."

We all sat in silence for a long while until Natalie spoke up

"So what did Nathan say about the choir?"

"Awe shit, I forgot!" I had barely finished talking before Taro was scolding me.

"Young lady it is not except able to be speaking of those words!", said Taro standing up from the

table, "You should know better!" And with that he left the room.

Natalie sighed and rolled her eyes,"He's always been strict about language..."

She shrugged it off. "Go talk to Nathan!"

"Ugh, fine. See you later." I had always been a procrastinator and I never liked being forced to do something.

I entered the Church hoping not to find Regis and this time thankfully he wasn't. As always Nathan was standing behind his book, reading. I never really got how people could read things while standing.

I walked up to him and waved my hand in between his face and the book, instantly snapping him out of his daze. "Yes what would you like?", He asked.

"Um.. I'd like to ask if we could have a choir? Our island?", I said quietly.

He clapped his hands together. "Of course! We've been trying to get villagers to sing with us for ages now! How do Sundays work for you?".

"U-Um, fine I suppose?", I stuttered.

"Wonderful, Now we just have to clear it with the other villagers."

"Great...", I said as I slowly inched away from him. He was kind of creeping me out.

And for the next few weeks a few villagers came every Sunday to sing in the choir. Lanna was helping Eliza with her pitch because it was really off. To make it worse she was also loud so you couldn't really drown her out.

I had always loved to sing so I came every week but many of the islanders didn't. Some because of time and some from disinterest. I had tried dragging Natalie to the meetings but every time she somehow avoided it. As I was walking back from the church I contemplated whether she might be part snake, the way she's always slipping out of unwanted situations.

I crossed the bridge from Verdure Island to my ranch and tended to my crops. All were fine except that a tree in the corner was infested with termites. There were some other plants though that were dying though. I think whatever was killing them was slowly travelling into 3 elder trees. All of which was just there for decoration.

I walked brought all of my chickens into their coop, as well as my cows, sheep, and pets into their homes, before going into mine. I made myself some boiled eggs and crawled under my bed's covers. I fell asleep listening to wind whistling through my windmill before the rain beat down on my roof.