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I guess if I go by the date I showed up here back home, and the time I've been here, I would have turned seventeen by now.

Happy birthday, or whatever.

[Oddly enough, this one didn't suck like the last one.]

At least if I'm going to be lost in space I should celebrate occasions like this one, right?

By the way, who actually thinks it's a good idea to put on those masks?

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Happy birthday, kid.

Dunno 'bout good idea or bad idea-- depends on how you look at it.

Thanks.

How do you look at it?

A li'l bit of both. I can see someone I lost 'fore comin' here when I put it on. Just see, can't touch her or talk to her. S'been... odd. Nice in a way. Hurts like hell in others.

Thinkin' maybe it's helpin' me cope with bein' here, yeah?

I don't think I trust something that induces hallucinations.

Long as you can tell what's real and what ain't, seein' things ain't gonna hurt you. S'like seein' a picture in a theater, yeah? Only better, in color.

How long until you can't tell the difference?

Dunno. Might never be able t'fool myself into thinkin' she's alive again. Not sure I'd mind if I managed to.

Sorry she's dead.

Yeah. Me too. S'why I'll take my chances with this mask deal. Better than just a headstone and some old pictures.

Maybe.

Oh my gosh-- Your birthday! We have to do something!

Do what?

Birthdays don't mean anything.

And anyone putting on the masks is an idiot.

Here's to making up our own time so we're not the same age for the next half of forever.

[A beat] Sooo... you haven't put on your mask?

At least let me make you a cake. At the very least.

By definition, they do.

Coming from the guy who has his up for anyone to take.

Better than rotting, right?

No. Why?

[No. Topher, no.]

Have you?

[Pause. Well, the last time he got a cake...]

Chocolate?

Naturally.

All right, but I'll come watch you bake it.

Square deal. You can see the master at work.

It probably won't take all that much to impress me, you know.

Why? It's not like the world stops if you miss one.

How does that make them not idiots if they take it?

Miss a lot of them?

I never said that. But you'd still be the idiot who lost his mask because he wasn't smart enough to hide it.

Most of them, yeah.

[deadpan] No skin off my back.

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