"Right." Sara nodded. "The next one runs from two days before the sun sinks to two days after it sinks."
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
Right. That. She forced herself not to look as pissy as the reminder made her feel. “A four day holiday?”
"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus "From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf "A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni [they/he]
"Yep. It's a celebration of making it halfway through the year and a sort of prayer that the darkness will be kind. We've been celebrating it for centuries."
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
Ky nodded, still actively focusing on masking her displeasure. “How does it work?”
"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus "From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf "A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni [they/he]
"We eat and sing and play games." Sara shrugged. "It's like a lot of holidays. We abandoned the prayer to the gods ages ago, but that used to be a thing. We'd sacrifice an animal and everything."
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
Ky nodded. “I guess I just don’t quite understand how multi day holidays work — like when do you know you’re done for the day? When you start the next day?”
"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus "From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf "A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni [they/he]
"Generally it's an all day, all night thing with naps and sleep in between. But days aren't really a thing in the North once the sun goes to sleep. So that makes it a little easier to forget that time is passing."
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
Ky nodded sullenly. That sounded entirely terrible. Starting off the darkness with no concept whatsoever of day or night or a normal sleep cycle or anything else. This winter was going to be the end of her. And she almost wished the assassins would make it here before the sun died.
"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus "From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf "A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni [they/he]
"There's another feast day when it wakes, and that lasts twice as long depending on how much food is left. With nobles it's usually a lot of food left, but back when I was a farm girl we had to skip it a few times."
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
Ky cringed and nodded. “… are they just family celebrations? Or do more people come?”
"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus "From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf "A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni [they/he]
"For the sake of preserving food in the village it's usually a family celebration. But if there's enough daylight on feast days, sometimes there are gatherings in the village square."
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
“Makes sense.” Ky nodded. There needed to be a singular sliver of good in this gods forsaken region.
"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus "From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf "A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni [they/he]
"What sort of feast days did you have in the South?" Sara asked.
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
“My township didn’t really do feasts, but we would celebrate everyone’s birthdays together, so there were frequent celebrations. But that was mostly singing and dancing… though there were sweets, if that counts. We didn’t really eat them any other time.”
"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus "From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf "A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni [they/he]
"That's great!" Sara grinned. "What sorts of sweets?"
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
