[Saber has a couple more, before forcing herself to do the same; as joyous as the consumption of a temporary beauty could be... this elation was something she wished to stretch out.
Ah. That question. A question she was absolutely going to evade as best she could, since. Parts of it were kind of really fucked up.
Most of it, actually.]
Ah, the majority of the celebration was ceremony; acts that had little significance to those not of the priesthood. For the common folk - the nobility, as well - it was largely a time for... togetherness.
Lupercalia was generally one of the few properly peaceful occasions the capital ever saw... aside from the stampeding of the Luperci, in their rush to whip the objects of their desire.
[Leaving out the part where some of the more desperate/old-fashioned Luperci would use thongs made not of the goat's skin, but of their own skin. It might put a damper on the whole thing.]
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Ah. That question. A question she was absolutely going to evade as best she could, since. Parts of it were kind of really fucked up.
Most of it, actually.]
Ah, the majority of the celebration was ceremony; acts that had little significance to those not of the priesthood. For the common folk - the nobility, as well - it was largely a time for... togetherness.
Lupercalia was generally one of the few properly peaceful occasions the capital ever saw... aside from the stampeding of the Luperci, in their rush to whip the objects of their desire.
[Leaving out the part where some of the more desperate/old-fashioned Luperci would use thongs made not of the goat's skin, but of their own skin. It might put a damper on the whole thing.]