Other than the nice horses, though, there really wasn't anything in the procession for Rissie. It was just a bunch of people riding around in armor! Was this like some sort of entertainment that happened at this festival? Would they break into mock combat and give them a show?

Sadly, that didn't happen, and soon they were around the bend in the road and Rissie could no longer see them. Everyone around her, though, wasn't as done with this whole thing as she. They pushed her along after the procession, and, remembering the reason that she'd run into the throngs in the first place, she stuck as best she could to her position. No one had tried to grab her when she'd been just standing there earlier, so these were probably good people: was better to have them around her than try to fight her way back out the way she came, especially with the added trouble of the crowd's movements. Besides, from what she could see no one else was breaking out of the crowds to go back to manning shops or entertaining random people, so there would be nothing to do even if she could make her mistake. And so she followed the crowds to whatever the next main attraction would be, dampened as her spirits were by the letdown of this latest one.

The nice thing about having broken into the crowds at about the middle of the path that the knights took was that she ended up about in the middle of the crowd where they waited for the speech to be delivered. Not that she could see anything due to the taller people in front of her (and no, as much as she thought that those around her were probably nice people, she still didn't want to bring attention to herself by asking them to move or maybe lift her so that she could see), but at least she would be close enough to easily hear. It took her a few sentences into the speech to finally understand what all the hubbub was about that parade: so those had been Ikana knights she'd witnessed! No wonder people had been so excited about something so dull.

Now, like any well-learned student, Rissie knew "Everything You Need to Know about the Oathkeepers" (yes, there was a book titled that; yes, she had read it). The importance of what this prince said did not escape her, and so she was among those who gasped at the announcement that one of the seals had broken. Also like any other well-learned student, Rissie knew about the Four Giants and that they were really the only gods that Termina could ever need, and so it did not escape her that these mentions of a new goddess were strange and heretical. Not that her grandparents had instilled in her any sort of religious zeal, she'd just never heard that there was any other sort of divine being.

Perhaps, though, the import of his warning, carried to them from the goddess, did go over her head. Sure, breaking seals was bad, and new goddesses was weird, but whatever sort of horrors might brew in the outside world, Clock Town would be safe. It wasn't like anyone would try smashing them with a moon again; that didn't work last time and, perhaps unfairly, she figured that their enemy, whoever he might be, would be smart enough not to repeat the mistakes of his predecessor. And so she had no trouble following the orders to disperse calmly, and she certainly wasn't going to go interfering with any sort of diplomatic talks.

Or rather, she would have had no trouble were it not for the fact that she was stuck pretty much smack-dab in the middle of the crowd. It would be a good while before she'd be able to untangle helrself from that mass of bodies and make her way... wherever she happened to decide to go next. This Carnival needed a bulletin; how was Rissie supposed to even know what was going on?