video; un: prometheus

[jolting]

I don't know how many people celebrate this, but today is Pi Day. Pi is a mathematical constant, with the first three numbers being three, one and four. Most people just celebrate by baking or eating pies. I made one for my daughter's math class.

Pi itself is actually very fascinating, though. It was originally defined as the ratio of a circle's circumference, but now it's used in many formulas in math and physics. Its decimal presentation never settles into a permanent repeating pattern.

But, ah... I'm sure most people just care about the pie.

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[sweetlies]

Miners Day? [What?

He's actually curious. How do you celebrate something like that?]

Would I be inconveniencing you if I asked you to tell me about it?

[jolting]

It was some thing where the miners would trade coal for things. The nuns use it as a yearly fund raiser.

[sweetlies]

[Hm]

That certainly makes sense. How did the nuns start using it for a fundraiser though? Do they keep the spirit of it alive?

[jolting]

They sell candles. The whole town loved it, though. It's just a time for us all to come together. Like a big but low-key community party.

[he's probably not explaining it well (but tbh the show didn't even explain it that well)]

[sweetlies]

[Better than Ciel can do by trying to guess. (And, really, it would.)]

It certainly sounds like a good way to encourage togetherness. We have some festivals something like that in London but I don't much care for them.

[jolting]

Hm. Maybe it's different in big cities. Storybrooke's a small town and we all know each other, so the festivals are more like hanging out with your friends.

[he smirks] We can even turn two people trapped in a mine into a party. Once they were freed, of course.

[sweetlies]

Oh, no doubt. We had the Frozen Fair in London but on my estate, we would celebrate smaller events. Like the St. Michael's Festival.

[He blinks and then laughs softly.] I would be worried otherwise! Unless they were wretched people, then I could hardly blame you if you had celebrated before they were saved.

[jolting]

What's the Frozen Fair?

[sweetlies]

It's held whenever the Thames freezes. Festival stalls are set up and ice sculptures made.

[jolting]

Hm. Interesting. Though it'd be hard to get into such a thing after we had that ice witch in town.

[sweetlies]

[His expressions fades a bit. He should be used to hearing this after so long but-]

Ice witch?

[jolting]

Yeah, a witch who specialized in ice magic. I forget her name. Anyway, she was freezing the whole town and had ice men stomping around, so that would ruin future ice sculpture making. For me, at least.