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[ The video feed flicks on to a closeup of Junseo's face before he pulls back and gives the camera a little wave. ]

If you were seventeen, but then you went back to your world for long time, and you were eighteen there, but then you came back here and your birthday is in ten days...

[ Trails off with a "uhhhh" starting off somewhere just off to the right of the camera for a good several seconds. ]

I don't know how old I am anymore?

[ Back to the camera. ]

Also being back here feels weird, but also not really? It doesn't feel like I was gone for that long, but also like I left a really long time ago. Does this happen a lot? I wasn't gone that long last time I left, so it didn't feel as weird.

[ Pause. ]

I don't think...?

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[thirdprogenitor]

[ Hold on a second here. ]

Are you not a vampire?

[ Because... what in the hell is it with vampires wanting to celebrate birthdays all of a sudden? ]

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[dumbfound]

Yeah, but don't vampires still have birthdays?

[ He was pretty sure they did. The vampire that took Junseo under his wing back home insisted on celebrating his last one. Then again that particular vampire tends to be a little eccentric. ]

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[thirdprogenitor]

What's the point when we never age and have died?

[ This must be a "young vampire" thing because... ]

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[dumbfound]

I don't know... people say nice things to you on your birthday sometimes?

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[helladoomed]

How old do you want to be?

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[dumbfound]

[ He... he gets to choose.

His eyes open wide. ]

I don't know.

[ This is too much power. ]

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[helladoomed]

Seems like that is what you have to figure out more than anything, really.

Cause you aren't gonna get a straight answer for how old you actually are when dimensions and time travel and shit come into play.

So you have to pick.

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[dumbfound]

[ A big sigh.

Man... ]

I'm not good at things like this.

[ Making choices, that is. ]

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[am_i_a_monster]

[She watches him for a moment, thinking about the dream world.]

This place does all kinds of strange things. Have a happy birthday and don't worry about the age.

How's the llama?

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[dumbfound]

I guess that makes sense. I'm not supposed to really age anyway, so...

[ Scratching absentmindedly at his cheek, before wincing a little at the question. It has been over a year, but at the same time it's also been only a few days ago that he woke up from the shared dream. Time really is weird here. ]

I don't know actually. I need to uhm-- ... The friend who is keeping him on his farm for me... I probably should apologize to him for some things--

Ah! Your leg...

[ Frowning as he thinks about it. ]

I guess it wasn't really hurt, right?

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[am_i_a_monster]

You don't age at all? That's got to be annoying when you want to buy a drink.

[She jokes and then becomes more serious.]

Does that mean you could live forever?

I'm glad that the llama is being looked after. I'm sure your friend will understand that you didn't choose to go back home.

[She nods.]

My leg's fine. Nothing from that world was real.

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[dumbfound]

It's ok. I can't drink most alcohol either. I tried once--

[ He makes a face at the memory. ]

And I guess so? I don't really know, but my hyung-- uhm... boss? He's thousands of years old, so maybe?

[ He'll also nod to the llama comment, but he's not sure that's really the problem he'll be having here. The dream world was a hell of a trip, and Junseo might have caved and helped the girl with the bleeding leg, but it wasn't like he didn't do some pretty shitty things while under the dream influence. ]

Yeah. It looked really bad though, but I guess... yeah...

[ He disappeared so quickly after waking up from it that he hasn't really had the time to process it all, and the whole going home and suddenly having another years worth of memories has been pretty distracting too. ]

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[ghoulking]

Well, I'd say you can choose whatever you prefer.

Welcome back, Junseo-kun.

[ Video ]

[dumbfound]

I don't know which one I prefer...

But thanks, hyung!

[ Video ]

[ghoulking]

Maybe it's easier to continue to consider yourself eighteen then.

[ Video ]

[dumbfound]

Okay! I'll do that then.

[ Bless. Someone actually telling him which one to go with and relieving him of the struggle of decision making. ]

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[marriedmedium]

Have a drink, darling, you'll soon find it doesn't matter!

[Sadie has poor coping mechanisms. Or excellent ones.]

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[dumbfound]

I can't drink most things though.

[ He'll have to deal with this headache to figure out some other way. ]

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[marriedmedium]

Of course you can, you simply tip the glass and swallow.

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[dumbfound]

No, uhm... I'll throw it up if I try?

[darted]

I think if I had the problem you'd have, I'd just add up all the days I've been alive and assess if enough time has passed between my birthday at home and my birthday here to justify aging. [ Mai is actually just reasonably talking him through this for the sake of gaining information. ]

That said, that's some really screwy time problem you have. [ She's still trying to wrap her head around the time inconsistency and what this implies. ] It's almost as if this place operates on an entirely different time scale.

[dumbfound]

Oh yeah! I can do that!

[ Pause, actually... ]

Wait, I can't do that.

[ He has no idea how many days he has been alive for. He never kept careful count. ]

But yeah, time here is really weird and doesn't make a whole lot of sense most of the time?

[darted]

Can you at least try and calculate the months? [ Mai still feels like he should be able to get a rough time estimate. ]

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[timeforgotten]

Would you rather be older? I'd think in situations like these, you can more or less say what you'd like best. Well, as long as it's believable.

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[dumbfound]

I don't think it really mind either way probably?

[ A pause though. ]

What happens when it stops being believable though?