…While the main storyline right now is a flashback, this might be a flash-forward. (Guess I’ll keep doing this until the present-day timeline gets around to winter again.)
Meanwhile: there’s a new behind-the-scenes Patreon post about the Woman in Black, Acai, and Iona. Give it a look.
A Szélanyanatt procession at the Sønheim Embassy.
Ragnild: Saffron buns! Have some Saffron buns to get you through the long night, officer?
Bryn: Long? At this latitude? It’s not even dark for fifteen hours! . . . but I will sure have a few of those buns, yes.
Sigrún: I, also, will have a bun. Thank you, young ladies.
Ragnild: Wait a second, Captain Sigrún . . .
. . . we actually have a special delivery just for you!
Sigrún: Hm? What kind of —
Ragnild: How are tiny buns a special gift, anyway? They added up to less than one real bun.
Iona: I guess she must really like tiny things.
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Tiny Buns indicate ‘made with care’.
add “just for you” to that.
Who wouldn’t be moved by that gesture?
…How do they indicate made with care?
smaller things require a more delicate touch.
And here I thought Saffron Buns was a Ceannic dignitary.
Wait, the day is longer than the night on the solstice? How?
Keeping in mind that Leif and Thorn’s earth has a 26-hour rotation, Szélanyanatt may be late enough after the Solstice that the days are getting longer already. Central is a much more southerly latitude than Sønheim, so their days are probably more equal in length by a wide, wide margin. At the Solstice most of Sønheim only receives 2 hours of daylight.
There’s not a binary switch between day and night, there’s a transitional twilight period in between. To take NYC as an example, full night on the solstice is about 11.5 hours long — the rest is divided into just over 9 hours of full daylight, and just over 3 hours of various stages of twilight.
…but your comment reminded me that, when people are just talking casually rather than looking at charts, they’re not going to say “it’s officially astronomical twilight right now,” they’re just gonna say “it’s dark out.”
So I went and bumped Bryn’s number up a little higher!
Whoops, never realized the captain had silver eyes. Cool.
can someone remind me why one of them appears to have a small animal riding on her shoulder?
That’s Ragnild’s pet ferret, if I remember the species right.
Actually, why is Sigurn getting special consideration? Is it just because of her rank? I haven’t noticed her particularly interacting with the kids or staff.
The kids are just delivering the buns — they were made by the kitchen staff, and an unidentified person put in a special request for Sigrún behind the scenes.
Front page CSS or something is borked, boss, as of 7:52 PM EST: https://imgur.com/a/J1p7wZ5
I know, I know 🙁
I tried to restrict the color scheme from overriding the After Dark theme, and the solution was so powerful it ended up restricting the colors to just the pages in the Leif & Thorn collection. Trying to work out the most elegant fix now…
Aaah, gotcha. Good luck and good skill!
I did Santa Lucia Day growing up, complete with candle crown (battery operated) and saffron buns. It’s fun seeing the fantasy version!
At 42.8 N latitude, I’ve got about 15 hours of darkness currently… out of 24. Seems like I’m further north than the embassy.
Depends on your definition of “darkness.” I just checked the times for NYC, at 40.7 N, and it says about 11.5 hours of true night, plus a total of 3-ish hours from various stages of twilight. So a person could call that anywhere from 11.5 to 14.5 hours based on where they personally think the cutoff is.
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