Bittersweet Tragedy (OPEN)

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February 5, 2027

Other than the fact that she was fairly certain that the holiday was Chinese (or something like that), Priscilla knew next to nothing about the Lunar New Year. Of course, she didn't really care to. The vast majority of the people around whom she spent her time didn't celebrate it, and she wasn't totally sure what the whole point of it was. It was another occasion to get dressed up, potentially, which was sort of nice. Beyond that, though, the new year came on the first of January. People couldn't just change the calendar.

She didn't recognize what half of the snacks being set up as food options were as she made her way through Horizont Alley on her way back from her lunch break. Half the signs weren't even in English. Some of the food looked awfully strange, too. Whatever a "nian gao" was seemed like some sort of take on a sticky toffee pudding, for one thing. It didn't really matter; Priscilla wasn't planning to stick around to find out what all of this was about.

Having to duck as an elderly witch carrying a cage full of Firedrakes came through without watching where she was going, Priscilla was just about to tell off the old lady. Before she could do that, however, her having ducked caused her to collide with someone else.

OOC: OPEN! I apologize for her in advance.

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The Lunar New Year was the stress test of all stress tests for work. A large portion of Horizont Alley was hooked up to their ‘internet’, and enough magical folk had charmed phones in their possession now that they had been fully out to the public for a few years. Harper was beyond excited to see how their systems would handle the influx of festival goers across the multi-day event. With today being the first day, there was sure to be a big enough crowd to put it to the test. Technically she was already done with work for the day, having a half-day due to the even, and not on call, so her being here was merely because she was interested in seeing what would happen with so many people in the same place at once. But when it all broke, she wanted to witness it firsthand. Getting food and watching parades was pretty fun too so it would work out regardless of what happened with their charms.

Phone in hand and refreshing through websites to see if it would all go kaput, Harper dodged out of the way of a witch that was wildly swinging a cage of creatures around. She had gotten pretty good at walking and texting, but hadn’t dared to try and do it while on a broom. Some of the sharper muggleborns in her department were already trying to push legislation to ban texting and flying. Apparently that was a thing, and a few wizards had gotten stuck in bell towers because of not paying attention whilst on their phones.

Anyways, she had managed to move out of the way because her peripheral vision was good at doing two things at once now, but it wasn’t great enough at keeping her from slamming into someone else entirely. With how crowded it was here, this sort of thing was sort of inevitable. She’d already thrown elbows a few times to force her way through blocked areas. “I’m so sorry,” Harper immediately apologized without even knowing who she had slammed into or what (if any) damage she had caused.

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