002 ♫ Action | Text ♫ It's my birthday, I can cry if I want to

[ipod_less]

[It's July 2nd. Shhhh. It totally is. Shhhh. And not only is it two days before the most American holiday ever, but it's a certain Political Science major's twenty-fifth birthday. She's not really big on telling people beforehand that her birthday's coming up. But today, she's wearing a hat to let everyone know just who she is today. She wore the

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[flipsalltables]

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How are you, Darcy? I caught sight of you earlier, with a strange hat on.

[ipod_less]

Clearly, you've never seen a birthday hat before.

[She takes a better picture of it, so he can see the wording on it.]

Best. Hat. Ever.

[flipsalltables]

It is your birthday? How do humans celebrate birthdays?

[ipod_less]

It is. My twenty-fifth. And we do it a number of ways. Cake with candles. Brightly wrapped presents. And if you're over twenty-one? Lots of booze.

[flipsalltables]

You are twenty-five today? Congratulations, my friend. I will bring a gift to you soon.

[ipod_less]

I am! I'm officially a quarter of a century. :) Thanks, big guy. And you don't have to. Really. But I wouldn't say no.

[flipsalltables]

That is very young still. I will bring something. I will see if Loki wishes to give you any gifts also. Have you been able to rekindle the friendship you spoke of in Aliunde?

[ipod_less]

I'm practically still a baby to you guys.

I'm...working on it. When he'd asked for information about him being Aliunde, I wrote several pages worth of stuff. It was a freakin' essay. And he didn't seem...upset by any of it. Or think I was lying, which is good. And we had marshmallows about a week or so ago. We've got a long way to go to get where we were before, but we're getting there.]

[Here, Thor, have TL;DR about your bro.]

[flipsalltables]

You are a grown woman, for your race, but you are indeed very young in comparison to us.

I am glad he seems to be warming to you. I feared he would refuse to make friends here. He has been through much, made many mistakes, but he does not deserve to be left behind or forgotten.

[ipod_less]

I'm still pretty young for a midgardian.

[Don't make her feel old, Thooooor. D: ]

As long as I'm around, he's not gonna be either of those things.

[flipsalltables]

You are. Some of you live very long lives, I have noticed.

[Some cheat and sleep seventy years in ice, too, but that's neither here nor there.]

Then I am glad he has you to be his friend, Darcy.

[ipod_less]

There's some people that live upwards of 100 years.

Thanks, big guy. And don't think that doesn't apply to you, too.

[flipsalltables]

That is surprisingly old for a human.

I know. As with you, my friend.

[ipod_less]

It really is. Of course, if you've got a certain sort of faith, people lived much longer in Bible times. My mom was pretty involved with the church so she'd always remind us of Methuselah on her birthdays when we'd tease her about getting older.

Good. I've got some free time before dinner. You wanna hang for a bit?

[flipsalltables]

Other faiths have other ways of preserving life into eternity, even during death. But those matters are complicated.

I will "hang" with you, if you wish for my company.

[ipod_less]

Yeah, that's a whole other can of worms.

Of course, I do. So cute that you used quotations.