[Nadine laughs a little at the comment, and manages a smile back.]

Yeah, it's pretty much just an excuse to have a big summer party. Take away the whole 'everything made by magic' part and this...is basically the real thing. Block party cookouts, pool parties, fireworks. They're all Fourth of July party staples.

[It's just bigger and more fantastical here in the Horizon, without the usual limits of time and money and space. And half the people here have no idea what the US. But that really doesn't matter. As far as she's concerned, there is no US anymore.

Though she supposes the citizens of Boulder would disagree.]

I haven't actually been to one since I was a kid.