But going beyond simple beliefs and folklore of haunting eyes lying within snow's mist and sizzling laughs from beneath the ocean waves.

The solstices have real effects on magical creatures and people. Though humans would never know this, for it would make hunting them easy.

#booksky #silverleaf

DotO is celebrated with night markets and festivals in large cities, with people making the trip to see street entertainment, magic, and novelty foods.

People of all kinds dress in blue robes and head coverings, making humans and non-humans difficult to distinguish.

#silverleaf #booksky #writersky

There's also a church ran festival named "Day of the Other."

It was intended as a bridge between humans and non-humans.

Despite the church drifting away from non-human relations long ago, DotO is a tradition some parts of the Anu continent still celebrate, though Lanria has long forgotten it.

I feel like adding on to say it's not because I don't like collecting things, I just grew up always needing to live light.

The life of a kid whose home was never stable, I suppose~

But I always envied those that could collect and found joy in it. I'm happy for those people.

She believed this theory so thoroughly that we spent entire classes on the proof of aliens through ancient Egyptian art.

More than 1 question on our final exam was about aliens and their existence in history.

Ah, the memories.

Anyways, can you tell I grew up in the southern US?