03 ✢ [video]

[shurikenfemale]

[Now usually she's not one to complain. In fact, she basically never complains.

But today? Today is the exception. On the screen is a very exhausted Cissnei thanks to the poison.]

This must be one of the worst birthdays I've had yet.

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[snowwhitesoul]

[Guess who's being told to spend her birthday on a sickbed?]

My apologies, then.

[shurikenfemale]

[She would if she could. She'd like the antidote.]

Thanks. I didn't think the handcuffs would be on this long.

[snowwhitesoul]

Same. Who ever our captors are, they are fond of suspense.

[Sarcasm all over that statement. Of course, "suspense" was being kind here.]

[shurikenfemale]

Suspense is one way to look at it, yeah. Have you been able to take them off?

[womanwhofights]

Could be worse. [Ever the optimist.]

[shurikenfemale]

I... guess so, yeah. Just not the way I imagined my birthday to be.

[womanwhofights]

Imagined scenarios rarely line up with reality.

But... happy birthday anyways!

[shurikenfemale]

True enough.

[She smiles, just a little.]

Thanks. [A light sigh as she shakes the handcuffs.] I think it's going to be a long day.

[holeheart]

It's your birthday, too?

[shurikenfemale]

Yeah, it is. I hope you're not handcuffed like me, at least.

[holeheart]

Oh, it ain't MY birthday. Mine's in July. It's my friend's birthday, and she's spendin' it recoverin' from that handcuff crap... You should hurry and get it off!

[shurikenfemale]

We're working on it, trust me. The handcuffs are more stubborn than I thought.

[forsakeprophecy]

[voice]

That... really sucks. I'm sorry. But uh, Happy Birthday anyway? Even though, uh, I guess it won't be happy.

[voice]

[shurikenfemale]

I'll be happy when I get these cuffs off. But thanks anyway. There's always tomorrow, I guess.

[forsakeprophecy]

[voice]

I'm starting to think we should just have a huge party when the cuffs come off. [He doesn't say if, because that thought is scary.]

[voice]

[shurikenfemale]

[She laughs, just a little bit.]

Maybe. It would be a change of pace from being cuffed.

[knifedances]

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Is it? I've never paid much attention to them, myself. It's just another day, after all.

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[shurikenfemale]

Might be, yeah. But knowing that you're dying on your birthday isn't what I would consider the best. Ironic, really.

[knifedances]

[He was stabbed and left bleeding in the street on his most recent birthday. He only has vague, blurry memories of being in a hospital before he woke up here, in a morgue. It certainly hadn't been the best :|]

Or even poetic ☆ But that's such a pessimistic way of looking at things; you don't know you're going to die, after all. Or have you already given up?

[He sounds cheerful enough perhaps, but he's not feeling particularly healthy himself]

[shurikenfemale]

Poison is generally lethal, in my experience. Might be otherwise this time.

[The fact that she feels like death isn't really convincing her that she might live, though.]