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15 Black Feathers [Voice]

( Forward dated to Thursday, the spring equinox )

[ Saten posting on the journals? Indeed it is! Something has been on her mind, and given that today's today, well. Might as well ask. ]

In my world today would be the first day of the new year. I've been here long enough to know that's not the case in this place.

Why is the new year here an arbitrary day in the beginning of winter? What significance does that hold?

[ Not that it's been bothering her. Just, you know. Curiosity. ]

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Ah I believe it has something to do with the switching between calendars in my world. Typically the new year would be March 25th in some other cultures. But it's long since changed to January 1st.

Why?

[ To pretty much all of what he said. ]

Positioning of the sun and stars usually. I-I mean they do something back home called spring forward and fall back, which they turn the clocks forward and backwards respectively. It's done out of habit mostly nowadays, but in the past farmers used it to tend to crops and the like.

...

Why would clocks need to be changed?

To make up for the lose of daylight, mostly. And to, ah, not confuse people either. [ He laughs slightly on his end. It's probably a strange concept to even think about but Helios knows about it only from living in America for a few years himself. ]

Changing the clocks doesn't change the amount of daylight.

[ It is but America is good at strange concepts isn't it. Her world doesn't have any sort of America though. ]

I think some ancient cultures had figured it out based on seasons and positions of the sun and stars. It had to do with the winter solstice, I think.

Then why isn't it on the solstice?

[ Come on, that just seems sloppy. ]

Because the mathematics at the time weren't perfect. They couldn't accurately track the actual movement of the earth, sun, and moon.

I'd have thought they'd have enough time to figure it out before now. It can't be that difficult. It acts exactly the same every year.

[ Says the being who can sense the length of daylight precisely. No Saten you just have a specialized skill set there. ]

Well, they can in my time. But by that point the date was established, and moving it would have just been hassle really, so it stuck. The date's not as important as it used to be. It's just a time-keeping device now, rather than anything ritualistic.

It's more of a hassle when the equinoxes and solstices don't line up properly. Changing it is only difficult for a single year.

Yeah, and then you throw off a whole host of things by shifting that one day - not only on Earth, but on other planets that trade with you. We have star dates, but still. Not to mention you have to get every nation to agree to that date. It's to much hassle.

There aren't any other planets.

[ That's ridiculous. ]

Well, I am going to have to argue that, because I've been on quite a few. There's countless planets out there aside from Earth, even if not all are populated with life.

[ Which only leads to one logical conclusion. ]

Why keep making them after the first failure? Only an idiot would still bother trying after a few.

[ Because most planets aren't formed the way Earth was in her world, that's why. ]

Um, pretty sure that Earth isn't a failure. And the Vulcans and a number of other races might be upset at being called failures.

It is. It was never supposed to exist.

Well, for a "failure" it's oddly successful. It and many other planets.

There's nothing successful about it. All it did was restrict possibilities.

You're going to have to get more specific here, cause I think our definitions or "success" and "failure" are a biiiiit different.

[ "Failure" is anything she doesn't like, whoops. ]

We were trying to create another being. Instead it failed and turned into Earth. It changed the way our world worked for the worse.

Well, just speaking for myself, Earth is a pretty grand place, though admittedly that didn't stop me from leaving it and heading out to find new worlds.

Your opinion doesn't matter. It didn't become what it was supposed to be. That makes it a failure.

You know, plenty of neat things have come out of "failures". Just because something didn't work the way you wanted doesn't make it worthless or mean it didn't work in some other way.

Also, as an earthling, I feel a moral obligation to argue with you til I am blue in the face. Don't know what your beef is, but Earth has done pretty well for itself. And besides, if something didn't do what it was supposed to - does the blame lay in the creation or the creator?

_{[ Argue that, missy. ]}

Blame was not the question. It doesn't matter who's to blame for making it a failure. That doesn't change what it is. It was supposed to become another angel and it didn't. It killed hundreds of them instead. [ Well, by now that number is much higher, but she was talking about the short(er)-term. ] It did the opposite of what it was supposed to. It couldn't have been more of a failure.

Wait, what? Earth? An Angel? Um, Earth is a planet. And it didn't kill anyone. I mean, there are natural disasters, but those aren't in our control.

Earth is a planet now. It was supposed to be an angel. It didn't become what it was supposed to be and it caused the decay of all those who came after it.

Huh, well, every world religion has it wrong then. Way wrong.

Humans tend to. They'll listen to whatever lies they're fed easily. As long as it sounds good they'll eat it right up.

I have this feeling you're one of those that doesn't want to make nice when you make first contact - with anything.

I'm not one for setting false expectations. I won't be nice now if I'm not going to be nice later. What would be the point of that?

Social graces, maybe? The sake of being polite?

I don't believe in politeness for politeness's sake. Perhaps once it's been earned.

Do I even want to know what it takes to earn you being polite?

My respect. And that comes from strength.

And let me guess - your version of strength involves a lot of blood.

It can. But it doesn't have to. Does yours?

Preferably no. I try and avoid blood.

_{[ Bruising was another matter. ]}

That seems like an unnecessary restriction.

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