With those endless dining room tables and everybody in suits and gowns? ...Were there chocobos?
[ They're part of the family too, right? Being birthday presents and all. He's probably erring on the side of royalty, but he has no basis for parties outside of movies, and the community social events he'd gone to when he was five or six. Those were decidedly not very interesting to him, and he'd contented himself with food and not speaking. ]
[ A beat. She's thinking... Were there chocobos. Horses. Chocohorses. ]
Not in attendance, no. Any and all riding animals were shown outside, rather than inside, should any be gifted. [ ...ahaha. ] There was quite a lot of business talk as well—it was quite dull. I'll never have a need for such a thing, so I used to simply nod and find somehow to excuse myself from the conversation. Eventually, I started taking books to socials, and after doing the required introductions and formalities and so on, so forth, I'd go outside and read until I was needed for this or that.
[ Not that she could do that on her birthday, but... ]
For the record, I've never gotten a horse or a chocobo or anything like that as a birthday gift. I did get a bird once, however. She was a little parakeet, and I named her Pollyanna... I wasn't allowed to keep her when I moved though.
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With those endless dining room tables and everybody in suits and gowns? ...Were there chocobos?
[ They're part of the family too, right? Being birthday presents and all. He's probably erring on the side of royalty, but he has no basis for parties outside of movies, and the community social events he'd gone to when he was five or six. Those were decidedly not very interesting to him, and he'd contented himself with food and not speaking. ]
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[ A beat. She's thinking... Were there chocobos. Horses. Chocohorses. ]
Not in attendance, no. Any and all riding animals were shown outside, rather than inside, should any be gifted. [ ...ahaha. ] There was quite a lot of business talk as well—it was quite dull. I'll never have a need for such a thing, so I used to simply nod and find somehow to excuse myself from the conversation. Eventually, I started taking books to socials, and after doing the required introductions and formalities and so on, so forth, I'd go outside and read until I was needed for this or that.
[ Not that she could do that on her birthday, but... ]
For the record, I've never gotten a horse or a chocobo or anything like that as a birthday gift. I did get a bird once, however. She was a little parakeet, and I named her Pollyanna... I wasn't allowed to keep her when I moved though.