[The thing is, Takeshi doesn't give a shit about his birthday. Hasn't, for a very long time. Which is why it takes him a second to line the pieces up - but once he does, the same, dry amused tone as before is back in his voice. Maybe even stronger, now.]
Might be tough. Someone set the bar for unusual and unique birthday experiences extremely fucking high.
Oh yeah? Who was that? [ It's easy to match pace, let it be an inside joke. A moment of companionable quiet for the birthday pit— and he follows up: ] If you happen to feel like returning the gesture, you'll want to start digging soon.
A pit's a pit, no? [ Politely refrains from a hole's a hole out of respect for the fact they're talking about that one time he put him in the ground for many days including his birthday and it shouldn't really be funny. ] If you're not digging, just keep the evening free.
[ Stephen hasn't been much of a birthday guy either, between family dwindling down to none and time becoming significantly more malleable. But he's not yet so old that the sentiment doesn't stick. And while the malleability of time and his own mortality are still more or less as they were here, not everything stays the same. ]
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[ Or is that the early Novembers? ]
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'kay. I'm writing you into my—
[ Abruptly, silence. He's not gone anywhere, he's just gone quiet. ]
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Stephen?
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Might be tough. Someone set the bar for unusual and unique birthday experiences extremely fucking high.
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How soon?
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[ Stephen hasn't been much of a birthday guy either, between family dwindling down to none and time becoming significantly more malleable. But he's not yet so old that the sentiment doesn't stick. And while the malleability of time and his own mortality are still more or less as they were here, not everything stays the same. ]
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I don't need to dig. I know a wizard, owes me a favour.
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[ Give him the gift of forgetting all synonyms of the word sorcerer. ]
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