I'm not exactly sure why we weren't, either - in fact, I haven't heard of spirits actually wandering the city like they had during the festivities in over a century.

[She pauses, placing a hand against her chin.]

The Autumn Festival was, in the past, a celebration of life and rebirth as the earth prepared itself to be eclipsed by winter. In the old texts, there are records of souls of the departed being more active during this time and that priestesses of old would send them to their resting place...

Though from what I saw while there, I doubt you and your other guests only came across the dead...