❀ - [Video/Action] - 第五 [中秋節; Mid-Autumn Festival, Discedo]

[meilihua]

[Hopefully by now, most people on Fortuna have somehow received a prettily wrapped package containing four different varieties of home-made mooncake outside their doorstep. Those within Discedo had them hand-delivered; everyone else...hope they made it...]

Hey everyone! I know things have been really crazy recently, but if you have a chance [pause] and are in someplace where it's safe to do it [pause...], you should definitely go outside and take a look up at the moon! If you squint really closely, maybe you'll see Chang'e ( 嫦娥), the moon goddess who lives there, or the Jade Rabbit making medicine!

[A soft, kind of wistful laugh] At least, that's what I would say if we were at home...

Anyway, I hope all my packages made it safely, but even if it's not the same moon, you can definitely still eat the mooncake! There's 4 kinds: lotus-paste, red bean, green tea, and chocolate! Just for variety.

I included egg-yolk in a few of them, but you don't have to eat it if you don't like it.

[Oh wait...] Yeah, and I guess it's China's birthday tomorrow too.

祝你生日快樂，老師！ You're still old, by the way!

Oh, and I don't care if you changed to simplified, you're still going to have to get all your greetings in traditional from me! [Yes, Taiwan did just stick her tongue out in the video. How mature.]

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[then_there_were_none]

[Normally Flandre would ask, but the mention of it being potentially sad warned her off for now. She was sad enough right now; no need to add to the heap.]

At home, Remi used to take me up to the room with all the big windows in it where we could see the moon, sometimes.

[Rarely. But it still happened! And Flandre recalled it fondly each time.]

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[meilihua]

Ah, that sounds like a really nice memory... Is Remi a friend of yours from home?

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[then_there_were_none]

Remilia~ My big sister!

She was here in the city too, for a little bit.

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[meilihua]

I'm sorry I never got a chance to meet her then...

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[then_there_were_none]

Only for a little bit.

She told me to be brave, and strong while I was here, so I am. Trying to.

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[meilihua]

That's a little harder than it sounds, sometimes, but you can definitely do it! How long have you been here?

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[then_there_were_none]

I hope so.

Three years, soon.

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[meilihua]

Wow...that's a really long time...

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[then_there_were_none]

Cube was here longer.

Time never seemed to move so slowly, before...

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[meilihua]

I guess we all have to find things to do for ourselves to pass the time...