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[counterattack]

it's... i guess kinda sore?
it's not that bad. i'm fine.

( he forgot dad jokes okay... )

[crimsoncrow]

_{[ s o n please- ]}

Just "sore", huh? Well, in that case...

I guess I can't call you an old man just yet, huh?

1/2

[counterattack]

huh??

[counterattack]

( wait. oh my god )

that was so stupid, dad...

[crimsoncrow]

Hey, it's my job for that sort of thing isn't it?

[counterattack]

i guess. it's been awhile since i heard any of your dumb jokes, i forgot what they sound like.

i wasn't expecting anyone to remember the date anyway, considering.

[crimsoncrow]

They're not that dumb. Your mother thought they were pretty funny.

_{[ then again, she was always the one to laugh at most if not all of his stupid jokes and when she wasn't? she was always socking him right in the arm for it. ]}

In all seriousness, you don't really think I'd have forgotten even under the circumstances do you?

[counterattack]

i guess not forgotten, but it's not like you would've celebrated it or anything

i didn't

[crimsoncrow]

Actually... I did. Every year, even though I had no idea what had happened to you.

[counterattack]

you did??

[crimsoncrow]

Yeah. Every year.

This one won't be any different. Or... I guess it will now, huh?

[counterattack]

well, yeah, since we're actually... together

are you sure you want to? won't it be weird?

[crimsoncrow]

Why would it be?

[counterattack]

because it's been awhile and you probably got used to it being a certain way or

i dunno

maybe it's just me it'll be weird for.

[crimsoncrow]

Spending it without you was weird, not the other way around.

Tell you what, though. We




we'll do this however you want. It's your birthday, after all. If there's anything you want and if I've got the power to make it happen, just say the word.

[counterattack]

i don't really want anything...

it's just another day to me, pretty much. i couldn't celebrate it even if i wanted to, and believe me, i didn't want to.
i guess i just thought
maybe we could like
do some stuff the way we did back home? since we CAN, y'know.

[crimsoncrow]

Got anything in mind? I can think of a few things that I've missed about this day but you're the most important.

[counterattack]

a pinata... and maybe a cactus snack if we can find it

what did you miss about it?
besides me

[crimsoncrow]

If? I'm in Coatepec, squirt. We've got nothing but plants here and I'm sure if I asked Salamander she'd be able to find something close to what you're after. I'd do it myself but I'm pretty sure she'd box my ears if I was up and about for too long.

But let's see... Besides you? That little spot you used to drag me to every year for one.

[counterattack]

i could go look for it. i'm in coatepec too. i don't really wanna talk to the leaders right now though... you ask, i'll go.

( not that he should really be walking around either but TOO BAD. )

the fishing cave? or
OH, i know the one you mean.
i just really liked the view. and you could slide down the slope without tearing your ass up on a bunch of sharp rocks. except for that time you managed to find the ONE rock buried in the dirt and then walked funny all the way back home. hahaha

[crimsoncrow]

Should you really b

_{[ the ink blots, and for a good while zephyr just sits there staring at the words in his journal. and then - ]}

I tried to forget about that particular walk of shame. I'd
rather skip a repeat of that part if it's all the same

[counterattack]

i'm fine.

( whiplash that way, and then whiplash back the other way )

guess i can live without that this time, yeah. you'll probably find some other way to embarrass yourself

[crimsoncrow]

The only embarrassing thing about all of that was having to come up with an excuse as to why I was walking like that. And to explain the bruise.

I can't be the only one talking about the things I've missed from your birthday. C'mon, out with it or I'll be forced to get my old behind out of this bed to shake it out of you.

[counterattack]

wasn't the truth a good enough story?

( sweet, summer child... :/ )

i just haven't really thought about it much since i left! but i guess
i don't know

what about the time a lizard got in the pinata pot and i thought it was for me to keep as a pet? i called him scaly and i picked out a place for him to sleep and everything
then you said mom took scaly out for a walk and WEIRDLY we ate lizard that night
i didn't catch onto that until like
three years ago

[crimsoncrow]

And give your mother something else to never let me live down? Hell no. Bad enough she always brought up that time when we were about your age just to watch me squirm.

_{[ OUT OF LOVE OF COURSE but boy his pride would've suffered b i g t i m e if he'd told the truth about that little incident. ]}

Yknow I think I remember that one. Black and orange, looked like it was covered in bumps? There was no way we were gonna let you keep that thing. I'm still surprised it let you hold it for as long as you did especially with the both of us trying not to lose our cool over the whole situation.