You mean the festival that heralded the arrival of summer?

I saw it as well. A curious event, truly. It was noisome and energetic and held no regard for the sentencing that awaits we Chosen like a suspended blade.

[An audible sigh.]

Were I a charitable soul I might say they are trying to teach us to find pockets of joy in a tumultuous time. Alas, I am not.

What I fear we are seeing is a clever form of control. No need to keep the prisoners in line when they are barely aware they are prisoners.

Do try not to grow too complacent with the luxuries of this world, hm? A gilded cage is still a cage.