The next several weeks went by in a flash. Hogmanay was intense, with seemingly every Highlander in the north trying to pack themselves into the city for the celebration. Children stayed up well pasrt their bedtimes to see the giant shiny ball open and drop millions of little pieces of confetti.
The Alconians were astonished to see it, and Tidas questioned how they went about cleaning it all up. Skye laughed that about it, wondering why he would be focused on such a silly matter when there was so much fun to be had..
The shops had closed down, but had stalls lining the sidewalks filled with goodies of every variety. Skye was particularly excited when she found a book about the topography of the Star Continent. It was written by a man she'd never heard of, but Tidas said was a famous explorer from Ruscovic.
