[Huaisang looks helplessly bewildered at the advice, since part of him certainly agrees with it. This isn't how he wants to spend his money, and yet here he is, waiting in line to spend far too much on an ugly metal tree.] Were you not here in October?
[Of the variety of strange things that Huaisang learned in that dream month, the most important was that the trappings of the holiday will offer some protection against the horrors that this place disgorges. At least, he hopes that's the case.] I'm only going to get a little one.
alight
[Of the variety of strange things that Huaisang learned in that dream month, the most important was that the trappings of the holiday will offer some protection against the horrors that this place disgorges. At least, he hopes that's the case.] I'm only going to get a little one.