>Try to find Cirno. She's always been a buddy, right?
You decide to try and find the ice fairy CIRNO. You doubt anything could really get her down.
You start towards the Misty Lake, habitually avoiding a quicker path from your location through the Magic Forest. The lake has seen better days, and is currently a rather darkish brown hue. And kind of purple, really its disgusting. You actually think this is kind of new. There are a good number of fairies around here, probably because this is where Cirno spends most of her time.
After THE INCIDENT, Most Youkai grouped together to defend their land. Fairies never really saw themselves as owners of a single area, or as a group. This led to issues- Fairies were spread out and usually helped around with the 'owner' of their area's deeds. (SDM's Maids, for example.) So many Youkai groups started to see them as mercenaries, and try to force them to fight for them. This led to more confusion and fighting, until the fairies just stopped helping altogether. The default reaction to a fairy became to kill the hell out of it. This would be more threatening to the fairies if they didn't pretty much respawn, however. Fairies as such, typically don't follow any leader, and are overall weak and unorganized. Though, quite a few have apparently been starting to follow Cirno over the years...
Many fairies flee from where you emerged, perhaps from reputation, perhaps from just being something other than a fairy. You pace around the lake, trying to spot Cirno, but its kind of hard from the edges. You really don't want to go in it, you hate water in general but this is just disgusting.