15th Screw - backdated to August 7th

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[Today is Nano's birthday, but she hasn't told anyone.  She's not really the type to call that much attention to herself over something like this, and it seems sort of insignificant to her compared to all of the problems in Hinoto-Ri.  But two years is a long time - at least, to her it is - and the past year especially has been full of so many chances to learn new things and meet new people, so she feels that she at least owes a little bit of celebration to herself.

And that's why she's at the bakery today, picking out a cupcake to enjoy while she wishes herself well for the next year.  Once she's got the tasty treat in hand, she takes it outside to one of the small tables set up near the street for customers to enjoy their snacks, pulling two small candles out and lighting them with a small fire spell that she learned from Namine.  After she hums a short little birthday song, she closes her eyes to send up a silent wish, smiles, and blows the candles out.]

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[Nano giggles just a little at the question before removing the candles and setting them to the side after she blows them out.]

They're birthday candles! Today's my birthday.

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Oh.

[Xion just stares a little dumbly.]

What's a birthday?

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Oh...!

[Nano blinks back for a moment, not having considered that Xion wouldn't really know.]

It's the anniversary of the day someone was born.

[She blushes a little, scratching at her cheek.]

Or in my case, the day I was built.

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Oh! Thats... pretty neat. Two years then, right? That's a long time. I'm not nearly as old as you...

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How old are you, Xion-san...?

[Nano doesn't have enough left of her memories to tell.]

Do you know when your birthday is? Maybe we can celebrate it together when it comes around.

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253 days old. I don't know when my birthday is, though... Sorry.

[Xion knows the months by date now, but she definitely hadn't when she had first joined the ranks of the Organization.]

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Hmm... so it shouldn't be for a few months yet. But the calendar might be different here than in your world, too.

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Well... It's not too important, I guess. Or else I would have been told about birthdays back home.

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You just haven't had your first one yet! Maybe your friends were planning a surprise party.

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I don't know... That seems kinda weird, especially for them.

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Well, I'll be sure you buy you a birthday present when it comes around, at least. To thank you for being my friend.

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You don't need to do that. I mean, you've already made ice cream for me. I don't really need anything else.

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I'll make you more ice cream, then!

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You don't have too, you know. I mean, I'd definitely like it, but you don't have to do anything for me.

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I know I don't have to. But I want to. I'm just really happy to have made friends with you, Xion-san.

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Me too. I mean, it's not the same as having all of my friends here, but... Well, it's still nice to have someone I can talk too. It gets sort of... Well, I guess I can't really feel loneliness, but it gets boring without someone there.

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I like talking to you too, and working together at the inn. And you're always welcome to come and visit at the house whenever you like!

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I don't... have a house, but you're welcome to visit me whenever you want to, too.

[Though lately most of her time has been spent helping around the inn because she's been pretty bored lately.]

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We should do something fun together sometime! I don't have to work at the inn every day with Tatsumi-san there, so maybe we could go somewhere.