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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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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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I can't help but think this kind of behaviour is almost... furtive, at times... [Robert sighs a little.] Then again, perhaps I simply don't understand the rationale well enough.
[It helps when nobody ever wants him around, when he gets strange looks everywhere, and when people avoid him. That's usually a good reason to avoid people in return, and festivals are just concentrated groups of people.]
... I'll be there for the purposes of making sure the magitechnological equipment is functioning, but that's the extent of it, for me. [Simply business as usual.]
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As long as my brothers project seems unlikely to malfunction, I will be staying home.
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Of course, I'd hardly be the one to encourage you going if you did not want to. And if there's no reason for you to go, then by all means, enjoy the relative quiet while most of the village is concentrated elsewhere...
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