006 ☣ voice (backdated to yesterday)

[minded]

I still don't get what the point of birthdays are. They're just another year gone by. They're just like any other day.

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[controlledvariable]

They mean you've survived another year. Sometimes that's worth celebrating.

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[minded]

Not this time.

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[controlledvariable]

[.... Okay, not the response she was expecting.]

You'd rather not have survived the year?

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[minded]

Let's just say wrong place, wrong time.

[ That probably comes off as he died back in his world. ]

I survived, but the same couldn't have been said about a good friend.

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[controlledvariable]

Oh. [Yeah that - makes more sense, then. Steph's never really lost someone she'd call a good friend, but still.] I'm sorry.

I can't... speak on behalf of your friend, but I know I'd want mine to celebrate their own lives, even without me.

[That comes out kind of awkward and fumbling, if only beause she's suddenly thinking about what it was like for Tim, when she was "dead".]