Entry 380; Day 425

[misterblackbird]

Are all the tourists quite gone now? I thought I saw a few lingering over the last day or two, but that can't possibly be true. I do know there are some newcomers in the City and I may very well have just seen some of them. I almost wonder if the City abandons or traps some of the visitors in the City after they've all come flooding in.

Entertaining as it is to have them in the City, it's rather exhausting. I stayed in to try and avoid them, but they found me on the Network all the same. I admit, I did set myself up for some of that, perhaps, since I was using the Network. Little wonder that they should find me.

I was surprised to see the celebration--the Chinese New Year celebration, I mean, or so I was told--on Sunday. Yes, I know that was the date for that New Year, and I shouldn't have been surprised if there had been some kind of celebration, but I hadn't expected to see fireworks and lanterns and a day of darkness set down by the 'deities'--and that along with the visiting crowds. I'm sure they quite enjoyed that. But, then, they seem to enjoy all of the City, or at least those of us in it, so why wouldn't they like fireworks and all the rest? Not that it isn't still unsettling not to see the sun rise, but I am glad I'd seen that happen before. I can only imagine what it was like to the people here who'd never seen that happen. And, all right, I did enjoy it myself. I remember going out with Riff and Merry during the Lantern Festival a year or two ago--another time the sun didn't rise.

I daresay I preferred the fireworks and celebrations on Sunday to the usual brooding and excesses of most St Valentine's Days. It was St Valentine's Day, but I don't know that anyone kept it. If they did, they kept it quietly. Fireworks and dancing dragons are far more entertaining. I think it was last St Valentine's Day, or perhaps the one before, that the City was flooded and made to look like Venice. That wasn't a pleasant holiday at all, but circumstances then were not what they are now.

Either way, the City always seems far emptier and quieter once they're gone--not that the City is ever empty or quiet, but at leas the Network doesn't seem to fairly hum with activity.

And, of course, we're not given any sort of rest after it. I shouldn't expect any by now. No sooner are the tourists gone but there's another curse set down on us, and a rather disgusting one, too, going on the things I saw on the Network. Eating everything in sight--I say it's appalling. There's no curse today, but it's a wonder you're not all sick. You may yet suffer for what you've eaten, you know.

Either way, it's getting to be late February, which means the weather will start to warm soon enough. I prefer the cold, I think, but even I get enough of it from time to time. I should be glad to see a few more green leaves around the City.

~C.

[ooc: ILU 4TH WALLERS~!!♥ Meanwhile, no, he was not cursed yesterday, nor will he probably be cursed tomorrow, but he's cranky as ever.]

Comments

[had_not_lived]

I barely even noticed it was dark, isn't that funny? There were so many lanterns and things.

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

Between the lanterns, the fireworks, and the crowds, I agree, it was the least of the things to notice.

[had_not_lived]

Did you have any nice visitors?

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

A few, yes. There are a few who come back time after time. Did you?

[had_not_lived]

Sure. The same thing, really. It's kind of strange, making friends who don't live here, but it's nice.

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

It is rather strange, yes, but I am glad to see them when they come to visit.

[had_not_lived]

Me, too. I like that curse, even if it's confusing. Lately it hasn't even been that bad, I think there are less people who look like me.

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

I can't say that I like it, exactly, but it is always exciting. And I think I'm rather glad I've not met anyone who looks all that much like me--although, Setsuna and I looked similar sometimes, but that isn't quite the same.

[had_not_lived]

Well, I'm kind of used to it because there's always at least one person. It's weird, though.

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

It is quite odd that you'd have so many people look like you.

[had_not_lived]

I try to think of it as the universe... universes? having good taste.

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

That would be a flattering way to think of it.

[had_not_lived]

Having a sense of humor about it seems to be the best thing to do. Though it makes me wonder about how alike all of them-- us?-- really are.

[misterblackbird.livejournal.com]

I suppose it probably is. You could go mad if you think about it too much. It is a peculiar sort of coincidence, I think.