About the same. I had one of the lanterns, because I thought they were fun and everyone here is so insistent about being festive and taking part in the holiday. I'm glad I had enough extra candles to keep it lit through the night. It was terrifying.

[He's seen cigarettes now--that unnerving commercial from October had them--but it still unnerves him to have a lit ember so close to one's face. No one here seems to use proper pipes, and Huaisang misses those. What he'd give for a little opium right now...]

And then the calendar says there was a month called November, but I have no memory of that at all.

It leaves me frightened for what may come at the end of this month.