14 [Video]

[nexmosnonlucror]

[Tom is carefully crafting icicles with his wand by the fountain outside of town, tiny snowflakes appearing out of nowhere as he twists the ice into beautiful points.]

How does one celebrate a birthday, in your world?

[Tom inclines his head toward the levitating PCD.

Both eyes intact, thank you.]My seventeenth is at the birth of the new year.

Comments

[soundsofdrums]

We have so many, they're not really worth celebrating at all after childhood.

[nexmosnonlucror]

[Interest piqued.]

Is that so?

[soundsofdrums]

After nine hundred and some odd of your Earth years, personally, it hardly matters anymore.

[nexmosnonlucror]

Do you tire of it?

Such a long lifespan.

[soundsofdrums]

Sometimes. It does get boring from time to time, really.

[nexmosnonlucror]

And you were born that way? With eternal life.

[soundsofdrums]

It's not quite eternal, though could be very, very long if you're careful. And--essentially, yes. It's encoded in our genes.

[nexmosnonlucror]

Our society, in my time, would quite literally kill for access to your genetic sequence.

[soundsofdrums]

Oh, most races likely would.