Winter Rose Festival

[Jiyu Simul Stamus]

Most of her volunteers were already completely exhausted, it was not easy going bringing something like this together and reminded her of why she had left it up to her family before. Why put so much effort into such an event when everyone here would be dead in the year anyway? A long life was its own special kind of curse. Mismatched optics looked around as numerous animals quickly swamped towards Rosemary for that one last way to stay awake for the celebrations, the normal. Shockingly, the healer made her way through the crowd seeming to judge everyone else could take care of themselves, a second cup of tea held in her telekinetic abilities.

Her voice echoed through the cavern among the light voices currently projected from those mingling with tea cups near the table the healer had left from. "There's no need to sacrifice it, though sometime during the Solstice I'm going to burn candles in the shape of The Aspects to make sure they don't cause us problems for being left out, since they are rather harmful when upset." she'd seen them, but she seemed extremely detached from them as if they were normal animals or something, and why shouldn't she the calico was used to dealing with such things. Jiyu herself? Was an immortal who had once possessed all powers she knew existed, so the idea of deities was not foreign to her and the knowledge they could be extremely violent at times. "Signify the rebirth with the change of seasons or something, and hopefully they take it as a compliment. Dealing with deities can be difficult sometimes, but they're not too different from normal animals just more powerful individually. Something besides dragging a sentient animal to a stake is bound to appease them enough to make sure they leave us alone and help us when they can." she wasn't just some cannibal after all, there was no way even the god of fire would only accept one thing.

Jiyu nodded slightly, taking the cup of coffee and scooting it forward with her paw, lapping at it slowly before she returned her attention to the healer. "You can tell that." it didn't sound like a question, but she was curious as to how Rose could tell when she didn't change her own expression ever. "Keeping focus is important for this." that much was true, celebrations were important and painful as these times of year were for her if she lost focus she'd lose her resovle to make this happen.