Albert and Innocia

Innocia: Look Albert, Christmas decorations! It's that merry time again!

Albert: Sure looks that way. But rather early, isn't it? Just the beginning of November and the seasons are greeting already? Feels kinda awkward.

Innocia: Who cares? Take it like a countdown to presents and feasts and other nice stuff! You just have to look optimistic. I hope I get alot of toys this Christmas!

Albert: I suppose I could, just without the toys. Hey, look. A church in the middle of the shopping district; that's rare. And the architecture looks so oldern too...

Innocia: Albert, why don't they have Christmas decorations as well? I mean, Christmas comes from church. If everyone else is celebrating beforehand, why not them?

Albert: Well, Christmas is more than just presents, toys, feasts and Santa Claus, Inno. While the decorations are up, they're for shoppers who care about the more materialistic aspect of Christmas. You'd probably see decorations on churches when it's closer to Christmas, say 'round 20th December or so?

Innocia: Wow, that's deep, and I don't get what materialistic means. But essentially they want to celebrate the more important things, right?

Albert: Well, I guess you can look at it that way. Some people go as far as to say that the important things are the only things that matter, and everything else is irrelevent.

The Salesman: That would indeed be so. The decorations, along with those other foolish things going on are indeed irrelevent lies intended to decieve people from the truth.

Albert: Who're you?!

The Salesman: Someone out to pass the truth on to everyone, be they the elderly, the working, or like you, the youth.

Albert: So you're from that church. Thank you, but we have to be on our way.

The Salesman: You're just trying to escape.

Albert: From what?

The Salesman: The truth. You're afraid because you can't take the truth; it's just too much for someone like you, isn't it? You're scared. Scared of accepting the fact that all those presents everyone's carrying around are just mere distractions from the true importance of Christmas.

Innocia: They are? (Albert: ...)

The Salesman: Yes, they are. Christmas is being defiled by people like you, materialistic brats who just look at money. And all those damn entreprenuers take advantage of that and make you waste it in the name of Christmas. They drive you away from the churches and towards the malls, while we are stranded behind with nothing except drivers offering us a ride up the wall.

Innocia: ...you're scary...

The Salesman: Of course! The truth never looked kind and friendly to fools, did it? Turn now, child, to the light, such that the glitter of money no longer shines in comparison to the bright radiance you face away from!

Albert: Leave him alone! She's just a child!

The Salesman: Move away! She must cast away the facade of illusions and come towards me! Only then will she receive true peace and enlightenment. It is just a step away!

Albert: Innocia, you can stop clinging onto me and hiding behind my back now. We're going somewhere else, away from these kind of freaks.

(Albert and Innocia leave amidst shouting from the salesman, who stops and finds a teenage couple walking along a similar street and begins talking to them. Albert and Innocia then enter a mall.)

Albert: Well, let's just eat lunch first before we continue walking around, shall we, Innocia? ...Innocia? Man, she got lost again.