"This will sound weird, but we had a giant... paint party. We channeled beacons of light that way to shoot the moon-like light to the skies", Jean shook his head. "But people were also tasked to offer something of themselves. Blood, hair, something that belongs to you only. That was given to a partner, who then threw it into the beacon and vice versa. It's a traditional Solstice ritual, but we had to add the first part since we missed the actual Summer Solstice."

They had... bigger things to do. Which was a big damn mess.

Jean does notice the unease Reiner is in, even if he didn't claim to understand how he was feeling. However, he could try make things a little brighter. Which means he grows a pair of giant eagle-wings made of fire to bring light from further up, like it would be coming from the sky. It wasn't quite like the sun, but it was better than just the torches around them.