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[nineteenfortyfive]

[Is this not about a medical thing, this time? Seems so. Claire's a bit more relaxed than she usually is when using the network, and it might have something to do with that glass of wine in front of her.]

It's my fifty-first birthday this weekend. Do I win the award for most elderly amongst us refugees?

It's hard to believe I was in my late twenties when I first came to Olympia. Stasis is... strange, to say the least, but I'm sure any of us here for an amount of time realize that.

[Now, let's see who's going to be a smartass and make a grandma comment. She's waiting. It's there, in her smile. Do it.]

Comments

[inaurare]

How is it you are in your fifties, now, despite arriving in your twenties...?

[he arrived in his twenties as well, and so far as he knows he is still in them...]

[nineteenfortyfive]

Well. You're familiar with the fact that people can return to stasis, aren't you?

[inaurare]

I'm familiar with this, yes...? But I think I have only encountered one person go back into stasis and return.

[and Lance hadn't remembered who he was...]

[nineteenfortyfive]

It's not very common, I afraid. Mine was rather dramatic in the time I gained.

[inaurare]

I see. Forgive me, I hadn't realised at all that you had gone anywhere - never mind back into stasis.

Was it strange, then, for you to come back? To readjust...?

[nineteenfortyfive]

It's all right, sweetheart. From what I hear from most, I haven't changed all that much. It was some time ago, anyway.

It was the strangest thing to happen to me so far, here. But now, it's hard to imagine things being any other way.

[inaurare]

Well, I suppose it's all right, if it ended in a happiness for you? I can't imagine how I might take to waking to suddenly find myself older...!