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DN-1-1: What areas celebrate Darkest Night?

Clive

Darkest Night is one of our more profitable seasons for the store. The darkest night of the year sends people scrambling for string lights and other illuminating decor. Happy and I decorated the exterior of the store together, the bright, saturated lights, unlike the ones we sell normally. 

There is a practice I've been told is unique to Wonder; there is a particular paint, derived from the ink of the peoples of a deep-sea civilization, which glows in the presence of scrap energy-based lighting. So businesses and homes will paint designs that largely disappear during the day but glow as the nights turn dark. Darkest night is when most unveil these temporary designs. 

The festivities seem pretty standard to any other party. People share food, time, and conversation. They also see it as a time to rid themselves of the things "haunting" them this year. Happy wrote a number of names and titles onto a list and fed it into a small brazier which they brought up from storage. I've tried to ask them about the practice but they haven't been forthcoming. I'm unsure if it's a common practice or one of their quirks.