"So you're set?" Rutger had asked after explaining everything there was to animal care. Lillian stood in her barn, observing her gift-cow that laid down, chewing her hay. Lillian nodded meekly. "Alright," Rutger smiled and hobbled on out if the barn. Lillian followed him out of the barn to bid him farewell.

Once Rutger had left, she sat in the grassy fields and sighed. It had only been two days since she arrived and a lot had already happened. She met the entire town, gone foraging on the mountains, and even earned a little money. She hadn't seen or heard from Phillip, and that was fine. Lillian smirked to herself. Phillip was probably having trouble trying to make his plants grow. The thought of her brother having trouble made her laugh. She was still mad about their feud.

The wind was blowing a bit in the late afternoon, so Lillian decided it was time to move. She stood up, brushing her dirty-blonde hair aside, and made her way through her little farm. The chicken house has yet to house a chicken, but soon enough it would. Her little space next to her house was probably enough to have a few plants, that way she wouldn't need to buy as much food. With victory in her eyes, her mood was raised and her spirits were high in the sky. Taking care of animals wasn't going to be as difficult as she thought!

Raising crops was a little bit harder than Phillip thought. On the third day of living in Konohana, after watering his whopping five turnip plants, Phillip huffed through the mountains. Watering the useless seeds was boring and he didn't have much money for anything. He was lucky that Ina had given him a few free turnips, because without them he'd probably starve. He dined on those and some fish he caught with his hands in the stream on the mountains.

Overall, he hated crops. They had yet to impress him. He was walking through a row of trees when he almost ran into a villager.

She was caught off balance and started to lean back too far. Phillip's hand shot out to grab her, but the problem was that the girl was much too small and light, and ended up crashing into Phillip, knocking them both over and into the stream. The girl, laying on Phillip's chest and looking quite astonished, shoved herself off him, soaked to the bone.

"Are you alright?" She asked as she stood up, squeezing the water out of her blue dress. Phillip groaned, the rocks hurting his back from the fall, but he nodded anyway. The last thing he wanted was to make her feel bad.

"I'm fine, are you?" he sat up as the girl offered her hand to help him up. He shook his head, figuring she couldn't really help lift himself out of the water after seeing how light she is. He stood up by himself, wringing out the loose clothes Ina had gifted him with. He stole a glance at the girl and felt he wasn't doing her any favors by calling her a girl. Upon first glance, she had the height of a preteen, but her face and body said otherwise. Her face and eyes portrayed wisdom and knowledge. And her clothes were wet now, so they clung to her curves and he could tell that this was simply not a girl. She was a woman. He wondered how he had mistaken it. He glanced away shamefully before she caught him staring.

Little did Phillip know, she already caught him, and was getting anxious being around a stranger. "Yes, I am fine as well. My apologies, I crashed into you without even introducing myself! My name is Reina."

Reina, Phillip thought to himself. "I'm Phillip, I run the farm outside of town."

"Ina mentioned you," Reina said, "I live with my uncle Mako. I'm a botanist, so I was out here checking on the trees." She gestured back to the row of trees behind them.

Phillip nodded slowly, not getting how's he could check up on the trees, but accepting it nonetheless. "I needed to find things to sell or eat..." He claimed, looking down and noticing that the commotion had scared the fish into hiding. He sighed.

Reina followed his eyes. "The fish? They come back out after a few minutes. But don't overfish, the population in nature has to be balanced," Reina said in a teacherly voice.

Phillip shook his head, "no, no, I understand and I'm being careful not to solely rely on eating fish."

"Excellent, would you like to know what plants are edible?" Reina offered, "it's the least I could do for knocking you into the stream."

Phillip nodded eagerly, this was what he needed. If he knew what to eat and what not to eat, he could be set for life! Reina would soon solve one of his problems.

At the end of the day, Phillip walked back home from the mountains with his new friend. After waving goodbye when the trail forked off, one leading to his house and one leading to town, Phillip walked the short distance from the main road to his house alone. He still had a faint smile from the fun day he had running through the mountains and finding secrets paths he didn't know existed.

With his bag full of fresh herbs and food, he came home happy that day for the first time since moving in.