The Festival of Remembrance was held on the first anniversary of the Green Accord War — Day 365, by the kingdom's calendar — in the shadow of the Ashwall's reconstruction.
The Crucible, which organized the kingdom's religious calendar and whose understanding of social psychology was the product of 251 years of institutional learning, had been precise in their language: this was a remembrance. An acknowledgment that something had happened, that people had died, that the survivors owed the dead something more than forgetting — a ceremony stripped of triumphalism and parades.
