This is the sort of gathering that Ilde is in the mood for; as many people don't talk to anyone at all as those who do, and it offers a comfortable opportunity to be surrounded by people without being bothered by many of them unless she wishes to be. They're interested in the meteor shower more than socializing, and- it's beautiful.

Even if she's no social butterfly, lately, she ends up spending most of her time in the orbit of the storyteller; a few times she feels as if she should be taking notes so she can remember what's said later. So she can tell someone else.

It feels a little like being part of a community, which is-

-unsettling, actually. She frowns, hands in her coat pockets, and starts moving away from the storyteller.