[video] - Winter survey pls answer

[orphism]

[On screen is one of your friendly neighborhood Persona protagonists. He spends a few seconds adjusting the camera and once satisfied, gives a happy smile. Behind him, his two partners, a DORUmon and an Elecmon, can be seen.]

Not everyone here celebrates Christmas. Or even knows what it is.

[Judging by some of the reactions he's seen around here.]

So I want to know what winter holidays you do celebrate. Or if you don't celebrate any, what you do during the cold months.

[He pauses, mulling over what he just said.]

...and if you don't have those, what do you do at this time of year?

Comments

[motherswisdom]

I don't know about this "king of the jungle" but Simba, my mate, is king of the pridelands. All the creatures of the kingdom were at the celebration of his birth. Antelope, Zebra, Elephants, Cranes, monkeys, every creature who could make it came, except for his uncle. [The woman gives cold look at mentioning the person before shaking herself lightly.]

But... we do not live in the jungle... well Simba did for a time, while he was younger and there were... problems, but now that he is king he lives at pride rock, out in the plains where the sun reaches vast distances... Everything the sun touches is our kingdom.

[orphism]

Ah, it's just an expression humans used when they didn't know the difference between a jungle and a savanna.

[But to find out that it's really a kingdom? That's amazing.]

As king, what does he do?

[motherswisdom]

I see... it is a pity that some of them don't know such a difference.

As the king he tends to the balance of the kingdom. He told me once, how his father explained it to him. 'When we die, we become the grass, and the antelope eat the grass.' This is the great circle of life, and what he maintains. It is his job to see to it that no one takes more than they need. He knows if the Zebra herd is too small, or the Antelope need to be thinned. A good king can keep this balance, a poor king... can ruin it.

[Something in the way she says that tells that she has seen some results of a poor king.]

[orphism]

[He has to admit, he wondered why the prey animals of the kingdom would not only accept but celebrate a predator as their king, but he's starting to understand now.]

It sounds like a lot of work. I'm sure he's glad to have you helping him.

[motherswisdom]

I do my best, thank you. I worry about him a bit, while we are here, because I know that by being around I provide him someone he can talk to and confide in.

[orphism]

[Someone to talk and confide in. Minato knows that role very well.]

Then keep up the good work.