✤ twenty six; (you can't take it anywhere)

[windmill]

[The phone is picked up. For a while, there's silence and the sound of a cigarette being lit. And then,]

Happy Birthday, Canada. Even if it's here, I wish y'the best. Y'deserve it. All of it.

[A long pause, and then Netherlands' languid tone turns hard and determined.]

Listen th'fuck up! Today's Canada Appreciation Day because I goddamn say so!

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[rhymes_with_wit]

[Grins and has to laugh when she see's it. And is also wearing red and white. Whoo, Canada day!]

Happy Canada day.

[windmill]

Happy Canada Day! [a rare grin. he still likes you a bunch.]

[rhymes_with_wit]

[Hooray. Bonus points for being Canada's only citizen]

How's the day going?

[Picking up a brochure to look in it]

Drilling some education into peoples heads I take it.

[windmill]

Goin' good. What d'you think of it? Did I get anything wrong? [he knows everything he wrote is correct. HE PAYS ATTENTION, OKAY]

[rhymes_with_wit]

[Glancing through it]

Nope, looks right to me. [Intersting use of words though...]

I like the pictures.

[windmill]

...I thought if I drew Miffy, it could be more accessible t'kids, you know? [NEVER MIND THE SWEAR WORDS..]

[rhymes_with_wit]

[She nods]

Miffy's cute.

[windmill]

...Dank u. ['thank you'.]

[rhymes_with_wit]

[She nods still looking at the pictures]

Used to read some of the books with my son when he was little.

[windmill]

[c-cautious enthusiasm] ...Do you have a favorite?

[rhymes_with_wit]

What? Oh yeah.

[Glances up looking thoughtful]

Miffy at the Gallery

My kid liked the zoo one better though. Loved those animals.

[windmill]

...Heh. I collect Miffy stuff at home. Got a whole room full. [congrats, you just became the first person in all of Mayfield to learn that.]

[rhymes_with_wit]

[She would feel honered if she knew that. Anyway she thinks that makes sense.]

Oh yeah? Cute.

It's Dutch isn't it?

[windmill]

Ja. She's drawn by a Dutch artist. Dick Bruna.

Don't believe Japan's lies. Hello Kitty is a ripoff.

[rhymes_with_wit]

It is?

[windmill]

Completely.