Out with the old....

[sundead]

Who: Everyone
What: New Year's.
When: Dec. 31st, New Year's Eve, to Jan 1st, New Year's Day.
Where: Everywhere
Summary: It's New Year's, and the people of Luceti have a lot to reflect upon, and to look forward to. And on a more meta level, new journal names.
Rating: We'll see...

New Year's brings images of crowds, and songs, and fireworks; staying up til midnight and watching balls or bells being rung. But Luceti is a different time and place. Whether you're partying with friends or watching the sunrise, what are you doing today?

Comments

[menial]

Maybe making it hard to get to is part of what makes it sacred.

[godbent]

If that's the case she should have put it int he mountains. This distance is a half-assed level of difficulty.

[menial]

Well, maybe you should find a way to send a feedback form to her.

[godbent]

She wasn't super talkative at the time... I bet I could leave a message with Miyabi though...

[menial]

['Is she trying to confuse me on purpose?']

Right, Miyabi, whoever that is.

[godbent]

She's this fairy who works for Amaterasu as a messenger or something.

[menial]

You say that like it's so normal.

[godbent]

Well, I met both, so..

[menial]

Yeah, I know. It's still a little surprising to see you take something like that... calmly.

[godbent]

Oh! Yeah, well... whatever.

[Sniffle. and she sighs. at least the hill is in sight now]

[menial]

[He sighs, too.

'Why are you like this, Haruhi?'

A little annoyed, he simply says it straight out:]

You're pretty different.

[godbent]

What are you even talking about?

[menial]

...What's hard to understand about "you're different"?

[godbent]

As compared to what. Compared to the "Haruhi" you knew?

[menial]

What else?

Not that it's necessarily surprising.

[godbent]

[she bites her lip and shakes her head]

I can't control that.

[menial]

I know.

['...And I had been thinking about that, right? Only... There's something else, too. It's not what I was thinking about before. She was thinking about something else just now, right? When we were talking?

...Forget it.']

[godbent]

...So you're still out at midnight?

[ :I ]

[menial]

['There's the problem. This constant lineface she's got going on here. What did I do? I didn't do anything!']

It's New Year's. Lots of people are, right?

[godbent]

[She nods. The lineface is more puffy checks of linefacey annoyance at her own sickness but. The mood here is distinctly not that great. She sighs]

Looks like that's the case, for once.

[menial]

Is it usually less so at New Year's?

[godbent]

...Yeah, actually. It's weird - everyone gets into Christmas, and then I make Tanabtata happen, but other than that, nothing. The Organization makes Valentines and Halloween memorable of course, but... New Years tends to get pretty ignored.

[menial]

Huh. Too bad for Respect for the Aged Day, I guess.

New Year's seems to me like a more solitary kind of holiday, anyway. Or more intimate, anyway.

['Or... introspective? I don't know what word I'm looking for.']

[godbent]

Mm, I guess, but you'd think there would at least be fireworks-

[and... as she says that Miyabi lights off her fireworks from the base of the hill the tree is on. The ones detailed here, that is]

[menial]

['...Was that her?'

He waits for them to quiet down a little.]

...Well, there you go. Satisfied with it all now?