<strong>"It certainly has not,</strong>" Blackwell agreed, and she pulled Sora close for a moment and offered a wide grin.<strong>"So it's a big deal, right?"</strong>She kept them moving, though -- it was easier, at least, when they moved with the flow of the crowd (not that Blackwell would have been deterred otherwise.)  She kept them directed toward the new church -- the cathedral, even -- but she didn't move too quickly.  She wanted to enjoy her friend's company, after all, and it wouldn't do to move too quickly to speak to her!<br/><br/><strong>"Are you looking forward to the new cathedral?  I never went much, even before it was burnt down,"</strong>she confided.<strong>"Even less after that.  But everyone else seems excited!"</strong>The closer they got, the more Blackwell slowed, the more she seemed to want to talk about the festival and the cathedral and a little bit of nothing at all.