Firestone Hot Springs there once was a bittersweet man and they called him Lemon Boy

being very vague abt things. tag for reference! this takes place at night.
@Lumiya

Familiarity was something the boy cherished. It made him calm, kept him happy and hopeful. When he found some familiar thing he'd keep it close, for these things were few and far between. But when he recognized this place—the water, the steam, the foul smell— he frowned.

It was the familarity that upsets him. When he had gone off with @Zephyr, he had expected they'd search for their missing loved ones in new places. He hadn't expected, or hoped, that they'd make a big circle.

But it wasn't his friend's fault, he told himself. He had no way of knowing that Phillip had been here before, that this was the place that Alarian.. left him? No, he whispered as he walked along the edge of the hotsprings, He- he wouldn't do that.

Phillip sat and twisted around to face Twig, who had been perched on his shoulder. Right? He wouldn't just leave me. He chuckled nervously, then dipped his crown.