Squall-Longleg is one of the named years in the Dark Peak calendar: squall for the thin, lazy rain that goes straight through you rather than around, and longleg for a creature long associated with witchcraft and miltings. You can greet someone with "Happy Squall-Longleg" and it is considered a proper salutation. Whether it improves anything is less clear.
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Every decade the Dark Peak calendar's weather stem resets to zero, and the pairing that opens the count is treated as an omen for the years ahead. 79.drizzle-flufftail.0.0 — 'drizzle' and flufftail' — provoked genuine jubilation in Hellsborough, and jubilation in Hellsborough always makes me nervous.
View full editionEighteen months to the Dark Peak year, twenty days each, five at the end with no names and no souls — feasting days, obviously. Years run on a sixty-year wheel of weather and beast. Right now: spit-hoverwing, year 43 of the 79th cycle. Consult the calendar.
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