It was a perfectly quaint little festival. Nothing quite as impressive as the ones back in the city–packed for blocks with vendors, live music ringing out late into the night, and the rich scent of every kind of festival food imaginable blending together from stall to stall into a cacophony of delicious smells. They seemed to have a different one almost every week up in Zuzu, once the weather started warming up. Hazel had always enjoyed strolling through them.
Completely fine. Respectable, even! The weather was lovely, the little town square was decked out to the nines, and Hazel certainly–certainly–would never object to a proper deviled egg. But given the way Mayor Lewis had talked it up, Hazel was mildly… underwhelmed.
He glanced in the direction of the sullen-looking fellow nearest him. The carpenter’s boy, if Hazel recalled, though Ms. Robin and her family didn’t come to Sunday services and he’d not yet met them properly.
“… is this… everybody? I mean… everybody in town?”
foreigners were rare, even those who were newer to the town eventually evened out their accents to something more palatable. though between Sebastian's infrequent travel, he's really only familiar with the sound of the city, so the more this stranger -- Hazel -- talks, the more Sebastian ends up squinting as though he could read the words spilling out of his very country mouth.
" y-yeah, sorry, " his response is delayed, like each letter had to pass through a subtle translator. Sebastian laughs, almost in awe. " your accent's worst than ours, " he jokes, not being able to count the amount of times he's had to repeat himself in the city.
" Sebastian, though, " he catches up to the conversation, turning a chin towards his mother who was stringing up pastel flags as confirmation. " this town's too small for a whole service, isn't it ? though I guess the ... church place only has a few chairs ... " he sees the glimmering gold of the Yoba statue at the corner of his eye whenever he goes to see Abby, not that he's ever actually attended anything.