conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “OH, ISN’T TODAY the first day of the fourth month?” Rae asked me out of the blue.
conversations.prefix: Rae:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  The arrival of spring brought with it kinder weather, allowing us to comfortably spend the night chatting over tea in the living room. May and Aleah were already asleep in their room. "It is—why?”
conversations.prefix: I:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “Well, it’s a bit of a strange day in my old world, you see.”
conversations.prefix: Rae:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “How so?”
conversations.prefix: I:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “It was a day where it was okay to lie.” Rae brought up some nonsense I couldn’t quite wrap my head around. Then again, most of what she said was nonsense I couldn’t wrap my head around.
conversations.prefix: Rae:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “Your world must have been pretty strange to have a day like that.”
conversations.prefix: I:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “I suppose. Although I guess it wasn’t a custom from the country I lived in but one adopted from somewhere overseas.”
conversations.prefix: Rae:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “Is that right? That happens everywhere, it seems.” Even Bauer had customs adopted from the Alpes and Sousse. I even heard that the Alpes were starting to adopt the Amour Festival. As long as countries interacted in some form with one another, there would be cultural diffusion.
conversations.prefix: I:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “But the tradition of lying on this particular date gained a lot of traction in recent times,” Rae explained. “Even commercial businesses, ah—they’re kind of like the trading companies in my world—would pull pranks and such.”
conversations.prefix: Rae:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “Trading companies would pull pranks?”
conversations.prefix: I:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “Yeah. Like making a weird announcement or changing the name of their business for the day, for instance.”
conversations.prefix: Rae:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “What’s the point of that?”
conversations.prefix: I:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “People simply liked doing those kinds of things.” Rae talked about her world every now and then, but my image of it remained that of a strange and peculiar place. All I understood for sure was that she’d lived in a peaceful country with values far different than Bauer’s.
conversations.prefix: Rae:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “I don’t understand. Wouldn’t it cost money and labor for a trading company to do that? How could a silly prank be worthwhile?”
conversations.prefix: I:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “You’re right about it just being a silly prank, but if people found it amusing, the company’s popularity would soar. There were even some that became famous overnight.”
conversations.prefix: Rae:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “Tr-truly?”
conversations.prefix: I:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “Truly. My world was advanced in fields other than magic. It was possible for such companies to send information across the world in the blink of an eye.” Rae often claimed magic was convenient, but it seemed to me her world was far and away more convenient to live in despite the lack of magic. It was hard to believe… So much so in fact, I had to wonder if it was true.
conversations.prefix: Rae:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “What you said just now wouldn’t happen to be one of those lies, would it?”
conversations.prefix: I:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “Wow, you got the point of the day rather quickly. Lies were frequently exchanged in conversations like this in my world. But no."
conversations.prefix: Rae: