[Rei pulls back and nods. She is really glad that Fenimore came early so she could spend more personal time with her.]

Well, the festival is called Setsubun. [She says it slowly, so the other girl can follow it, a routine she's worked out for Japanese words.]

It's a day when people banish bad luck and evil spirits, and call good ones to them. There's a dance and food, but I didn't have time to get it all together, and I'd need another priest anyway.

[Because she's not dressing up in the oni costume.]