genessia | Welcome to the Festival of Fireflies

Welcome to the Festival of Fireflies

Who: You! Anyone and everyone is welcome to come!
What: A Festival of Fireflies with games, food, rides and more!
Where: Genessia
When: August 15th-20th. Starting at 7pm
Warnings: Be sure to warn in your threads appropriately.

[The gates are open and the air is filled with the sound of music. Whether you're a reveler, a vendor or anything in between-- come and enjoy the festival!

The Firefly Masquerade post is here]

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[Katze let's out a disappointed groan when Airy failed at his riddle attempt. The girl isn't very clever, is she?]

C'mon! Try! Just don't give up like that.

[She's not as fun as Hajime! At least Hajime tried to decode his riddles.]

I'll give you a hint. It's sweet.

Yes but there are a lot of people who don't like sweets and if you say sugar it's like you're cheating because there is sugar in everything.

[Airy's overthinking the problem to much to have an educated guess.]

I also don't think people use the word tastiest so it really depends on your definition of the word...

I'll guess chocolate.

Sugar can't possibly be in everything! There's no sugar in corn dogs or takoyaki!

[So he thinks. There's actually sugar in both.]

Nope, wrong! Chocolate is sugary and sweet but I'm talkin' about something not a candy!

[Mentioning candy, where's the cotton candy at?! Katze is searching about for the vendor as they speak.]

I'm pretty sure there are natural sugars in everything.

[At least reading the ingredients lists told her that.]

Not candy but sweet? Cake?

[Airy points over to the stand that has cotton candy as well as as few other carnival treats.]

This way.

But corn dogs don't taste sweet!

[Natural sugars? Buh?! Katze is confused.]

Pzzzzt! Wrong! Definitely not a cake but it can be used in a ingredients for a cake. I think.

[Makes a beeline for all the goodies. Guess who's gonna get fat? KATZE!]

Corn actually has a lot of sugar in it.

[She'll find Katze a book on food and drop it off at his apartment sometime.]

It can? Vanilla?

Corn has sugar? Oh man, I never knew! That's kinda freaky. I guess that's why it tastes so good.

[He legitimately like cream of corn but only had it about twice in his life.]

Nope! Not vanilla since it doesn't come from a plant.

[He's getting two giant cotton candy puffs on a stick. The pink one!]

Vanilla comes from a bean which comes from a plant...

[She's definitely getting him a book about food.]

What about icing? That's on cake, not really in it though.

[Airy steps up next and orders a blue one. She always feels like blue tastes best. She lightly tests the spongy spun sugar before pulling off a long string and gathering it in her mouth.]

I thought vanilla was a flower?

[Katze literally knows nothing about food other than jelly beans and cream corn. He likes sweet stuff but doesn't know anything about how candy is made.]

Wrong again, Airy! Think organic.

[He says before taking a huge bite out of the sugary concoction. A sound of pure delight escapes his lips.]

S-So good. This is...magical.

[Airy smiles at Katze's excitement.]

Technically most things start as organic.

[She points this out but still keeps thinking: it's in a cake, organic, sweet and a lot of people like it.]

The base ingredients of a cake are eggs, flour, sugar, water, salt, butter, baking powder, you can have cream or milk too, vanilla. [She looks over at Katze.] That's it and most of those aren't naturally sweet though they have sugar in them.

[She really has no idea.]

Really? But I can never find any jellybean plants.

[The goof says as he continues to snack on his candy. This stuff is good! So good that Katze is quietly nomming. He's happily munching away.]

Yet none of them are as tasty as honey.

[The answer was "honey".]

Jellybeans are sugar and artificial flavor. I think the ingredients are found naturally but they're made in a factory.

[Airy pauses.]

Honey is in cake?

[She's never heard of that.]

I know Honey doesn't go bad.

[She continues to eat her cotton candy though a lot slower than Katze.]

So...jellybeans aren't real. [He asks looking a tad disturbed now.] Factory made? Like...processed! Yeah, processed!

[Oh boy! He doesn't want to eat fake processed foods bit jellybeans are great!]

Isn't honey in cake? How else do they get so sweet? Sugar can't do everything!

Yeah.

[Airy nods, most candies are processed. They really have to be though she has no idea what those processes entail. She's watch some of 'how its made' when she was sick as a kid. It was that or Scooby-do and she honestly doesn't remember much of either.]

Sugar is just... sweet and there is honey in some cakes but not most. Unlike sugar which just tastes sweet, honey can have a flavor depending on what flower it comes from or what bee.

At least, I think so.

So does that make "Sugar" the tastiest thing that everyone likes and not "Honey"? [-GASP!!!-] That means I got my own riddle wrong?

[He narrows his eyes a little in disbelief. Did he really get it all wrong.]

Gosh, that's a shocker.

[He munches quietly for a moment as he ponders.]

You know, I don't know much about humans other than all of them usually being cowards or jerks.

[He's having an epiphany here, Airy.]

[Airy stares at Katze curiously.]

Yeah um.... how many people have you meet? There are all kinds of people. More types than I think you can count.

[Though Airy knows a lot of jerks, she doesn't know many cowards.]

...um.

[He let's out a thoughtful hum.]

I met lots and lots of people! Plenty to deem you humans as absolutely worthless~

[Of course he's joking, right? Right? Katze goes back to munching again.]

Okay! Maybe not COMPLETELY worthless. Some of you folks are amusing and make good treats.

Did you try to get to know them one on one?

[Airy can't argue that groups of people are ridiculous.]

Or are you judging before you get to know them? You should really give people a chance, they'll surprise you.

...Well, no.

[Dammit, Airy! Stop making him think! Katze doesn't do well with critical thinking. Nope. Not at all.]

Surprise me how? I gave one a chance and she locked me up in her soul!

The point of a surprise is that it's surprising.

[Airy laughs, turning towards Katze with her fingers laced behind her back.]

If I... [Her voice trails off and she waves a hand in the air. Seemingly from nowhere a rainbow glides from where Airy's palm had just been located, falling down to the ground like a waterfall.] did something like this?

[*GASP!*]

Wait how---HUH!? [Katze stares at the colorful blond with pure shock. He has no idea what the hell she did to make that rainbow suddenly appear but he's surprised.]

Eh!? Humans aren't suppose to be able to do stuff like that!

[Do it again, Airy! Do it again!]

[Airy laughs and wonders if he'd make the connection from their first conversation when she asked: what defines a human.]

I am human.

[Her fingers curl, not because it has anything to do with what she's doing, but it helps her focus and create a clear view of what she wants. The rainbow waterfall jumps from the ground and circles around Katze growing in hue until it looked like a solid ribbon floating on some invisible breeze.

This is actually kind of fun.]

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