17 [Voice]

[unseeing_sight]

It's my nineteenth birthday today. I think. I might be wrong. I was counting from Christmas. But I haven't been sure about my birthday for a very long time.

Even though I suppose I'm still seventeen. Still. It's my nineteenth birthday.

Comments

[i_see_death]

Happy birthday. Going to get Ark to make a cake?

[unseeing_sight]

Thank you.

Well, um, I don't know...if she wants to, I suppose?

[i_see_death]

Ah. Not much of one for birthday parties, I take it?

[unseeing_sight]

I haven't celebrated my birthday since I was ten. I just like to keep track, that's all.

[priorpyro]

A birthday, huh? Congratulations. That's a very special day.

[unseeing_sight]

Huh? Oh, right, I suppose it is. Thank you.

[rialta_fianaise]

Happy birthday, Hans! [Grins] Don't get into all that metaphysical time stuff. It's already making my head spin. You shouldn't be older than me and younger than me at the same time!

But, yeah. Happy birthday! Having a party or anything?

[unseeing_sight]

[Laughs]

I'm sorry. I can't help being older than I am.

Erm...no, I don't think so...it's not really that important...after all, I'm still seventeen!

[rialta_fianaise]

Oh, come on! You should! With cake and jelly and chocolate and...

Sorry, I'm hungry. [Sheepish laugh]

[unseeing_sight]

Jelly? Chocolate?

[Laughs again]

We all are, but you get used to not thinking about food after a while. I've had enough to eat for so long that I've had to get used to it all over again, though.

[warped_genetics]

...Birth Day? [ Blinks at that, but judging from what everyone else is saying he goes on a bit awkwardly. ]

Happy.. Birth Day.

[unseeing_sight]

Thank you, Zetsurin.

Erm, are you getting on alright, by the way? Since everyone's hungry...

[kamui_vampiro]

... Happy birthday.
tsk.. I can't stop thinking how young you are.

[unseeing_sight]

I'm not really young. Had I been normal, I would probably be a husband and a father by my nineteenth birthday.

...

And, well, you don't sound any older than me.

[kamui_vampiro]

Really? It seems... strange to me, but, anyway, every world has his own rules...

Do you think so? -you can hear a soft, really soft, and brief laugh.-

[unseeing_sight]

Many things I hear are strange to me. It's only natural that some things about my life would seem strange to you.

[Slightly awkward pause]

Um, so how old are you?