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Who: Everyone!
What: Thanksgiving + New Feather party.
When: Evening of the 20th.
Where: School cafeteria, nicely done up.
Summary: There's food. And there's also board games, are you game for some Snakes and Ladders?
Rating: Let's put this all over the board. Strange stuff can happen, man.
[Thanksgiving may not be a familiar holiday to most in Luceti, but everyone understands potluck, at least! Hopefully. Preferably.

It's all done buffet-style as usual. Thanksgiving stuff greets you first when you grab a plate and get in line at the buffet lines (food and drink provided by everyone, Thanksgiving stuff courtesy of the Welcome Centre and Ginia). Though of course, don't think that you have to stand in a line while eating! There's tables and chairs for sitting and talking and— eating, obviously. Reach out and grab a drink! If you get one that's been prepared by the Welcome Centre, it's non-alcoholic. Can't really say the same for anything else brought by others, so you may want to be careful. Y'know, just in case.

'course, there's also board games if you're interested in 'em. Just check out that corner over there!]

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'Now, I wonder what the connection between Turkey and the --

Aaaagh!'

[Kyon yelps as the cold ice cream smacks into him.]

'First snowballs, now what appears to be a moving pile of ice cream tubs. Is my life here destined to be one long parade of being hit by cold things?'

What's going on here?

[A head pops out from behind the ice cream pile. Hello there!]

Ice cream! Want some? I have lots of flavours here!

[Setting them dow and patting the top tub as if she's proud of this collection she has amassed.]

Do you want strawberry? Chocolate?

'I've always preferred little-sister types to be docile and well-behaved, rather than chirpy...

That said, I guess I shouldn't be churlish to a little girl trying to be nice. That's just wrong.'

Strawberry, perhaps? Many thanks.

[Rearranging the tubs until she's found the strawberry ice cream. Rather than finding a cone, a bowl or something else, Yotsuba just holds up the entire tub to Kyon.]

Here you are, it's strawberry. Really strawberry! [That's better than sort of strawberry.]

Ah, really strawberry. Is there an ultimate strawberry, or have I got to earn that?

[He takes it from her... and kind of holds it, wondering what to do with it next.]

The ultimate strawberry... [Her eyes glaze over for a moment. Does that exist? Wow. Wooow.]

If you ever earn the ultimate strawberry, you've gotta make sure you share it with me, okay? It's probably really big, and really really strawberry!

'...Cute kid.'

In fact, I'd wager there's nothing more strawberry than it in the world. I guess I'll think about sharing it with you. Maybe.

No, you must! [Looking around frantically. She needs this ultimate strawberry okay?! Uhm. Uhm... Oh, idea! Grabbing another tub of ice cream and holding it up.]

Here's another one! Now will you share the ultimate strawberry with me?

[He smiles a little.]

Okay, ice cream girl. You've convinced me. When I find it, I assuredly will convey it to you.

Yay! Yotsuba will get to taste the ultimate strawberry!!

[Throwing her arms up into the air and waving them around. This is her victory dance... Or something.]

Thank you! You can't change your mind now, okay? You definitely hafta... a-sure-ed-ly convey it to me now!

May I be struck by the lightning of a thousand storms if I fail you... If I ever find the truly ultimate strawberry, that is.

[Blink. Wait what.] But... Won't it hurt to be struck by lightning? It's all bright and noisy. You don't hafta go hurt yourself like that, just don't break the promise!

[Tilting her head to one side now.] You might not find it? Why not?

Well, hopefully I will never have to suffer if I don't break the promise. Like you said.

'This girl is something else. How old is she? Six?'

There may not be a single ultimate strawberry. They may just keep getting more and more strawberry until the end.

Ohhhhh, okay. Yotsuba gets it now!

[You were close there, inner monologue. She's five, but hey points for trying.]

So after really strawberry... Would be super strawberry! And very strawberry!! But 'til what 'end'? Will the strawberries stop being strawberries?

That's a very real possibility, Yotsuba.

[CAN'T HAVE THAT. NO WAY.]

It is?! Then we need to stop the strawberries from not being strawberries, otherwise there'll be no more strawberries left, and that's bad! Very bad!!

--It's a very long evolutionary process... that no one can be sure about, of course.

What's evo-loo-shun-ary? [Hello. That's a nice word you have there. Please explain.]

'To be honest, I'm not sure I paid enough attention in biology to give the right answer.'

Uh... It's when one thing turns into something else over time.

Ohhhhh! Like when you eat yummy food and after awhile it turns into poop!

That... would probably not be a process you'd describe as evolutionary. But I guess the idea is right.

It wouldn't? But you said it's when one thing turns into another... What else does that? [...] Oh! Ohhh! What about a caterpillar into a flutterby?

Yes, that's more like it.

Though the word is butterfly.

Oh, okay, flutterb- ...Butter-fly. Butterfly! Got it! That;s what Yotsuba meant to say!

Good work, Yotsuba. Or should I say, wood gerk.