This dumb festival is what made me think they can be a lot more than they are right now. For three days out of a year they get to smile? To have a little fun? That's no kind of life, Alcuin, and you fucking know it. What you're seeing is them at their happiest, and it's still drab and careful. Compare this to the Travelers at that dumb ball-- it's pathetic. Even the most religious people I knew in my own universe still had a little bit of good in their lives every day.

I'm no god. I'd be a shitty one. But would you really be happy leaving and letting them go back to being miserable most of the time? Really, Alcuin?