Christmas in Evermarch

Chapter 6
The flat opposite had hung up Christmas decorations. Johnny was surprised at that. There had been a lot of confusion last year about whether people should have been celebrating the birth of Christ or not, considering that God was here now. There had been a lot of talk about it being a date that was essentially meaningless, a hangover from pagan deities and all that. The muta had tried to stop it and had succeeded, but largely because most people were more concerned about where their next meal was coming from that buying presents and hanging up stockings. Johnny himself had had beans on toast for Christmas dinner last year. He knew that the flat across from him had children in it and he assumed that the family had decided to risk it. Maybe there had been a leaflet that had gone round saying it was OK that he had missed.
Chapter 7
There were Christmas decorations up in the station. Thorman didn’t care, good luck to them, whoever they were. The Tinsel Guerrillas braving the wrath of the Committee. He smiled at the notion of black clad figures flitting through the building at night with bags full of Christmas tat.
Agnostic on the subjected of Christmas, Thorman knew that the argument went that it was a false holiday. It had deep pagan roots. There had been no word from God on the subject so the beardy killjoys in the Committee had insisted on Christmas Day being struck from the Christian calendar.
Chapter 10
This year in Evermarch, despite the continuing fear, and the continuing doubt over what was permitted and what was not, people still celebrated Christmas. Nathan was not a deep thinker, but he saw that his mother had wanted as close to normal a Christmas as it was possible to have, and he imagined that that was what most households in Evermarch had wanted too. The desire for something from the old world and the old ways, something that could not be taken away, no matter what else happened, was too strong to be quashed by the most zealous of black-clad muta killjoys, no matter how many leaflets they delivered or people in Santa hats they beat up. 
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