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[aside from helping with whatever festival-related whims his brothers have had, Legato has managed to avoid most of the chaos so far. And now that the energy in town is finally beginning to die down as the sun's light whittles away, he leaves the shelter of his house to lounge out on the porch.
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But she understood how he managed to grate on everyone's nerves. Even with nothing implicit in his questions, he seemed to insult them all.
Still, Amelia saw something good, so Jilly's voice is light when she answers, taking the questions at face value]
A little bit of everything, really. It's a chance to celebrate, and to be together. And it's for the Great One. Very few things people do are black and white.
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It's more of an excuse, then?
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It's a tribute and an opportunity. You know?
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[no. no, he does not know.]
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It is in part for the Great One. And he does care. But we do this for ourselves as much as for him.
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[yeah, nothing could possibly go wrong here]
Does he really? ...Though, I suppose anyone would get a thrill from having an entire village throw a festival for them.
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That's the reason we started doing so in the first place, yes.
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And does that reason have validity any longer?
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Personally, I don't feel there's a "Great One" to begin with. No evidence for one exists, after all, and I am not the type to accept hypotheses without evidence.
But I would assume that the more tangible benefits of this festival are the ones it provides to the villagers - most people enjoy doing something like this for the purposes of celebration, after all.
[All Robert's gonna be doing for the festival is checking on the electricity.
... and, well, okay, taking a certain sweet little blonde girl around...]
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'Celebration' is such a vague term, especially when they have difficulty coming up with exactly what it is that they are celebrating. I've never understood it.
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That is true, but to a regrettable extent it is because the reasons for this are vague. I suppose it's mostly because people find some justification for doing so themselves.
In a way, your "habit" statement makes a significant amount of sense. Ritualized actions. [Robert understands those. He has a lot of them, himself.] In a way, it's become as much a part of this village as the wars, Shifts, and occasional disappearances have. It's something the villagers expect to occur.
And it's one of the few things we have any real control over whether it occurs or not.
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Mmm. [a somewhat darkly thoughtful murmur, as if that clicks with something he'd been mulling over himself] ...Therapeutic, then.
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[Amelia's been going to the festival since she's been a child. It's just always been there.]
I'd have to say it's tradition, I guess. And it's fun.
Have you ever gone yourself? [Probably not. Crowds aren't Legato's thing.] If you haven't, maybe you should. You could find something you like about it for yourself.
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[but...]
I'm guessing you and your family are going?
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[She sees what you're doing there.]
I'll spend some time with them there, but I'm not going with anyone specific just yet.
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[which gives him an excuse to be there if it comes down to it]
Are you running around like the rest of the village then, in some stage of preparation?
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[but not these silly adults]
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