[the smile she gives him is kind, as if to say there was nothing at all about reminiscing about the people one cared for. she'd have been feeling the same, if there was an absence in her circle that she wasn't accustomed to. it would be no trouble at all to be acquainted. but he's moved the conversation on, and she won't mire him in it.]

It really is...I've never seen a celebration quite like it. If I weren't certain we were in another realm to start with, this would be convincing enough.

[some of these decorations are definitely moving on their own in ways that seem too organic to be technology.]