Chimera A4, Monday Evening

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After a quick trip to Jeff, God of Biscuits, Z sat cross-legged on her bunk with a cupcake with two candles stuck in it, singing softly to herself.

"Happy birthday to me,
Happy birthday to me,
Happy birthday, dear me,
Happy birthday to me."

Then she made a wish, blew out the candles, and ate the cupcake.

((Open to Chimera cabin peoples or peoples with a good reason to be in Chimera cabin!))

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[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

Bridge both lives in this cabin and has a good reason to be knocking on the wall of this particular alcove, as it happens.

[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

Evie lived in the cabin, and thought she smelled smoke. She knocked on the alcove doorframe. "Z? Is there anything burning in there?"

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"Not any more," Z assured her. "I blew 'em out."

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"Come in," Z called.

[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

Evie peeked in the alcove, then startled. "Oh, happy birthday! I didn't know. Or I would have gotten you something. Ice cream, at the very least."

[water-wonder.livejournal.com]

Tori's reason was pretty good since she was passing by on her way back from her handwavey walk on the beach. And her ranger senses were tingling she realized this happened to be the cabin Z lived in, so she decided to stop in.

Tori popped her head in. "Anybody home?"

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Z peered out of her alcove and said, "Me! Hi, Tori. What's up?"

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"Oh, nah," Z said, shrugging that off. "No one's ever celebrated my birthday, it's no big deal."

Z was kind of a big fat liar.

[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

"Ohhh." Evie coughed a little British cough to cover her surprise and sympathy, then brightened. "Oh! One second!"

Yes, her mom sent cookies. Again.

And ten seconds later, she was back with the big tin of assorted chocolate-chip, oatmeal-raisin, sugar and cinnamon snaps. "It's not really a present, but, happy birthday!"

[water-wonder.livejournal.com]

"Hey Z!" Tori smiled and waved. She then shrugged. "I was up and about, thought I might come say hi." She made her way over to her friend. "And happy birthday, apparently." Tori grinned. "I didn't know it was today." She made a mental note to get Z a present.

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"Yeah," Z said with a shrug. "It's no big deal. I'm just turning two. Again."

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"Oh, hey, cookies!" said Z. "I can't take your cookies!"

[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

"Of course you can't! But you can accept a gift, right?" Evie bounced on her toes, looking pleased. "Since there is no ice cream, and there really truly should be. Look!" She popped the lid off the tin. "Chocolate chip! My mum is an excellent baker, I should tell you."

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Z bit her lip, peering at the cookies. "Maybe just one."

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Willow came in in time to hear the singing. "Happy birthday Z!"

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Z blushed. "Thanks, Willow!"

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"Should we be wearing silly hats?" Willow asked. "Or perhaps throwing streamers?"

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"Nah," Z told her. "It's really not that big a deal."

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"May I at least offer a 'woo-hoo'?"

[water-wonder.livejournal.com]

"Still, a very happy birthday to you Z." Tori grinned brightly and moved to give her a birthday hug.

[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

"Or three," Evie said hopefully. "Because one is just what I'd share with a friend. And so is two. But if you have one more, Or two more than two, it's more like I brought snacks."

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"You might," Z said. "What've you been up to?"

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"Aw, thanks," Z said, returning Tori's hug. "I appreciate it."

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Z very carefully picked out three cookies. "I'll just take these, then."

[water-wonder.livejournal.com]

"You're very welcome." Tori smiled brightly. "I say we do something special for your birthday. Anything you'd like to do or see. My treat."

[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

"Yay!" Evie took one for herself, then tilted her head. "So, are you sixteen, or seventeen, or eighteen today?"

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"Oh," Z said, "I already had a cupcake--and Evie brought cookies!" This was apparently quite the celebration by Z's standards.

[water-wonder.livejournal.com]

Tori grinned. "No birthday cake?" She joked. It sounded like it had been fun.

[Bedtime for me. Slowplay is love!]

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"Technically, I'm two," Z said around a mouthful of cookie. "Or seventeen."

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Hey," Bridge says with a grin, a small box (https://shop.thehungersite.com/store/item.do?itemId=3331&siteId=220&sourceId=17&sourceClass=Category&index=23) wrapped in shiny gold paper in one hand.

[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

"Time travel?" Evie asked, swallowing. "I'm one-hundred-and-six!" She grinned. "But seventeen is good as well."

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"Hey," Z said back, grinning at him. "What's up?"

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"Yup," Z said with a nod. "I'm from fifteen years in the future. And you seem remarkably well-preserved."

[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

"Thank you! I cheated, of course." Evie nodded solemnly. "I had myself mummified at sixteen." She giggled. "And used the same preservatives on the cookies in 1917."

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"That's what the cupcake was for!"

((Night!))

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Z eyed her remaining cookies warily. "Really?"

[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

Evie shook her head and took another bite of her cookie, still giggling. "No, no. Time travel, like you. These cookies are fresh. I'm only sixteen, really. I promise!"

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"What's up is that it's your birthday!" he says cheerfully, holding out the box.

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"It is! I'm two. You shouldn't have," Z said, but she was already reaching for the box.

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"Oh, that's all right, then," Z said. Then she took a bite of her second, unmummified cookie.

[bookyeve.livejournal.com]

Evie smiled. "So yes, happy birthday, then. And many more."

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Happy second and seventeenth!" Bridge says. "And of course I should have. Why wouldn't I?"

[multiplez]

Z shrugged. "Because no one ever does? It's really not that big a deal."

[water-wonder.livejournal.com]

Tori chuckled and nodded. "Right, sorry. Cupcakes are good, too." She grinned her mun having gotten one for her 21st bday down in Disney. "You sure there's nothing you want for your birthday?"