Second Flight - [Voice]

[moelle]

[An evening stroll for some fresh air outside the apartment reveals something a little bit different than what was expected, for Noelle. Lights, lights everywhere. On the trees, on the houses... it's like the village was suddenly lit up with several thousand fonstone lamps, like part of the Fon Belt itself had come down to illuminate the buildings.

She has to admit, she's a little confused. It seemed innocuous enough, yet so had those things at the top of their journals, a couple weeks ago. She flips open her journal]

Does anyone know what these lights are about? Are they another experiment?

Comments

[blessingone]

A little like it. [How to put this when she barely understands what Halloween is?]

It was -- I mean, it started with a different kind of decorations, like...like some kind of childish attempt to be creepy. Well, some of it wasn't so much decorations as changing what all the houses looked like into something that was trying too hard to be spooky. [Sort of a Nightmare Before Christmas kind of cutesy-creepy, but Earth pop culture references are pretty hard for a luddite from another world.] But they had decorations like pumpkins with faces carved into them. And people got forced into costumes....

[She shakes her head.] Maybe it's not really the same thing, but...it was for a holiday, too. And it didn't stop with decorations. Things were...bad.