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[Despite having been on the Moira for a number of months now- not to mention the year that seemed to flash past in the blink of an eye- Evie is only now making her first public broadcast to the network. She looks somewhat subdued, settled in the library in her own clothes with the hood of her overcoat cast back from her face and a small pile of books scattered around her. They appear to be volumes on world history.

She looks at the camera on her MID and smiles awkwardly.]

A quick question, if it's not too much trouble. I don't suppose there's a right answer but I'm curious. Considering how we are all out of our own space and time aboard this ship, how exactly should we treat anniversaries? Births, deaths, marriages and the like... do you think it's best to just continue with the totals as normal or would you add on the years that have passed since the day you left your own homes to today's date?

And secondly, can someone direct me to somewhere that has candles? Today should be my brother's birthday and -

[She stops herself from saying something else. How it's the... twenty second? Twenty third? Several hundreds and twenty third? anniversary of their mother's death too, but no one wants to hear that.]

Well. I would feel it would be breaking the habit of a lifetime not to mark the occasion somehow, even without him being here.

Thank you.

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TIMES STILL MOVIN DUDE there's no reason why we should do anything else idk why humans do it every year though that sounds like a waste of time

Oh I fully understand that time is moving, sometimes it seems as though it's moving far too fast on this ship. Does age not mean anything to your society?

buddy i'm almost 4 million years old and i'm one of the younger ones aboard

I think there's some candles in the cargo hold, if you check the crate labeled "free to take".

[That part was easy — there's a pause before she considers the other question.]

As for the years, if it's a serious gap? I'd say it's easiest to count what you've lived, what you've experienced.

[There's a another beat, shorter this time, and a chagrined:]

That said, I don't actually know what year it's considered to be in this universe, on-board the Moira.

I have been trying to find out the year and having no luck with it. I've been thinking that it makes one feel strangely old if you add hundreds of years to whatever age you or a family member is supposed to be if you do take it from the year that you left from. It would be almost biblical.

[Not that she's a believer, but she's well read and some of those ages are pushing it.]

I can't imagine my brother being several hundred years old. He's only just managing to pass as an adult.

Pick a day. Too much countin' otherwise.

I am well aware of the day, it's just trying to work out the year that goes with it that I'm struggling with.

Dunno if we got a year here.

'Sides, you didn't lose some days gettin' here?

I kinda ignore them. Even if the calendar here says it's my birthday, I didn't suddenly age an extra number of months. That said, I wouldn't turn down free cake.

I suppose that makes sense, it just seems very odd not to do something when the calendars say that today is today. It doesn't feel like it should be.

[But then she frowns a little.]

Why would there be free cake?

Because it's your birthday? Not everywhere gives it away for free, especially if people start just saying it's their birthday when it's not, but plenty do.

[She looks a little taken aback by that.]

... how did you-?

And that still doesn't explain why there should be cake. Gifts I can understand, but people are under no obligation to give someone cake.

[...oh, is it her birthday too? Are they twins? Huh, he'd meant it in a general sense.]

But birthday cake is the best part of turning a year older. Gifts might suck, but it's hard to mess up cake.

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