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It decorates at Christmas.

[If you thought Chell would be more talkative in writing, well...]

What?

The mansion. It puts up Christmas decorations. Happened last year, and the year before that.

[God, she's been here forever.]

[Ah, there's the problem.]
christmas?

They don't have that where you're from?

[There's a bit of a wait before the next text.]

I don't think so.

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cripes i haven't seen Charlie Brown Christmas in ages let's just go by memory here.

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It reminds me of something.

_{[But the noises make him flinch. That's why he's here, of course. To spend time with the only person here who seems to be as much of a paranoid wreck as he is.]}

[Well hey now, 'wreck' is a strong word, that implies there's something unhealthy about being constantly prepared for an attempt on your life!]

[Chell glances away from her device for a moment, to the other occupant of the cube bunker that is her room.]

... What does it remind you of?

I'm not sure. Something... _[Frown] nice.

[... Well. It may not be dangerous, but Chell wasn't afraid of the noises as much as the building changing itself.

She did not have fond experiences with that.]

[that little bit of introspection out of the way, Chell reports from the network.]

... Someone said it was the mansion putting up 'Christmas decorations'. Does that sound familiar at all?

It's a holiday, it's--people give each other things. My--

Anyway, there are supposed to be lights and a tree, but they don't move by themselves normally.

[Ahh. Chell nods.]

It's something the mansion is doing.

[She states, like that's unusual.]

...

[Chell clears her throat quietly, as she figures out how to ask... Or, for starters, what to ask.

The lights and tree are obviously part of decorating, which is for this' holiday'... Where people give each other things? So...]

... What's... Christmas?

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its a holiday

its called christmas

What's christmas?

the night before you go on dates if you have a boyfriend or girlfriend and you have christmas cake

which is the same as regular cake except you eat it on christmas.

[oh.]

What does that have to do with the decorations?

people decorate for christmas too i think. or at least they do in some countries. ive never decorated my house for it, but i've seen stores decorated for christmas.

[Ah, okay, then.

Oh wait, something else occurs to her]

When is christmas?

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POOR INTERIOR DESIGN CHOICES.

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[Chell reads the message and smirks, now that she's seen some of the decorations herself.]

agreed.

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i believe humans call it christmas decorations. i find it vulgar and offensive.

[He's seen an angel speared on top of a Christmas tree, and had to forcibly remind himself why humanity is worth saving.]

What is christmas?

[multiple sources never hurt anybody.]

would you prefer the religious answer or an explanation of the glittering mockery humanity seems to have made of it.

[Castiel, angel of the Lord, incapable of working out how the shift key works, oops.]

Whichever is more relevant to the mansion's change.

[Chell has a feeling it's the 'glittering mockery' she's asking about.]

as i understand it humanity has taken the the birth of the lord's son, a joyous occasion, and turned it into festival of too much and often rather strange food, money and family feuds. They have also taken to making everything glitter and violate fake angels by sticking them on trees.

I neither understand nor like it.

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