Entry 358; Day 341

[misterblackbird]

So are the 'deities' quite through with us now? I'll admit, I wasn't cursed, but that didn't make the City seem any less mad to me. It was like one of those wretched weekends when every curse I've ever seen seems to happen again--but all at once. I think most everyone here has endured at least one of those weekends, even if not everyone was

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[primrosella]

He's doing a little better, from what I've heard from his doctors. They think it may take him a while to be back to his usual self, but he's recovering his strength and they're letting him have visitors now, for a little while at a time. Dr. Chase and I were speaking about having one of the healers look after him, to see if magic couldn't speed things along a little, but for now I think they're mostly leaving it to the doctors. They'd know best, I suppose.

It's an awful way to spend Givi Thanksgiving, though, trapped in a hospital bed like that.

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[misterblackbird]

You've met Megumi, haven't you? She works at the hospital from time to time and--I know you know how I feel about things like magic, but I don't doubt hers. She fairly saved Riff once. That was how we met, she and I. You might speak to her about whether she can help heal him.

Do you think he'd care for visitors tomorrow?

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[primrosella]

I'd been thinking of asking her, actually, ever since the topic came up. And I know I certainly wouldn't mind it if she--or anyone, for that matter--could cure him with magic, but of course, it's not a matter of what I want. I'll ask him what he thinks of the idea, and if he'd like to try, I'll see if Megumi would be able to help.

I think so, yes. I know I'll be there as long as they'll let me, but I'm sure he'd be glad to see any of his friends, too. I know I would.

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[misterblackbird]

Speak to Sam about it and, if he agrees, speak to her about it. I feel sure she'll be willing to help if her magic can heal the wounds he has. I don't know that there are any limits on what she can do, but perhaps there are limits on the strength of her patients. I admit, I don't entirely know how it works. But I've felt it, both through me and through her--It's like water, it cleanses--

Then I should pay him a call as well.

[neverendingbeat]

After being killed by the curse affecting me, I'm more than ready for a break from curses. Beside that, I'm feeling quite annoyed. I wasn't even given the choice to press a button, not having been given a box at all. The whole curse seemed rather arbitrary in what people received out of the event. Completely exasperating.

[misterblackbird]

Wait a moment: you were cursed, but you never had a box at all? So were some people the ones who pressed the buttons and some the ones struck by it? It wasn't balanced at all.

[neverendingbeat]

It certainly worked that way for me. What an unpleasant thought: being set up to be cursed, in my case, my life in the hands of the person holding the box. I doubt it will end up being that simple, though. The Deities would perhaps like us to think of it that way.

[misterblackbird]

The 'deities' may like for us to think of it that way, but it seems crueler to find out that perhaps we weren't all going to be cursed, that half of us would curse the other half, half would suffer and half would escape.

[ann_withane]

I haven't heard of Thanksgiving before. What is it?

[misterblackbird]

Have you not? Apparently it's exactly as it sounds: a time to give thanks for the harvest and for plenty in the face of the oncoming winter. I had someone explain it to me before, and it apparently involves colonists in America, then starvation, then salvation by the Indian tribes there, and then a grander thanksgiving for their survival and alliances. Calling it a harvest feast seems to make more sense to me.

[ann_withane]

Thanksgiving sounds so much more romantic, though. It's such an evocative name. "Harvest feast" doesn't sound like anything special at all.

[misterblackbird]

I suppose it does, but it still doesn't exactly have much to do with the things that I'm told inspired it. I suppose it does in spirit, but not so much in name.

[youdeservedit]

I've seen many mentions of Thanksgiving- I didn't think there were so many Americans.

[misterblackbird]

It may very well be a holiday that's caught on of its own accord. I can certainly understand why.

[youdeservedit]

I'm sorry, could I ask you to explain it?

[misterblackbird]

What part of it? I can understand a harvest festival easily enough. But as for celebrations of it in the City, I think that it, like some other holidays, just appeals to some of the people here and they've taken to celebrating it, even without knowing it before coming here.

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[revengeisalie]

Ah, so Thanksgiving is about the harvest... now I get it. But I agree that it's pretty late!

Now, Mister Cain Hargreaves... I heard - from Rosella - that you and Mister Sam Witwicky are doing some research, of the network.

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[misterblackbird]

And giving thanks for that harvest. It seems to make sense.

What have you heard? We were researching on the Network, if that's what you mean.

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[revengeisalie]

Mh, it does!

Ah, yes, that. Old network entries and such.

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[misterblackbird]

We are looking into some of them, yes, in the hopes of finding a pattern in the curses, though not so much as the moment.