It is the grey hour when the frost on the window doesn’t melt, but listens . When the floorboards remember the weight of ancestors who never spoke above a whisper.
You do not mark wenmaal on a calendar. The calendar is too proud, too precise. Wenmaal arrives like a held breath—between the last chime of midnight and the first thought of morning.
In the old villages, they would say: “Wenmaal has set the table again.”
The world, for once, will not ask you to be useful.