HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

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[Visitors to the Velvet Room are in for an unusual sight.

Gorb balloons. Streamers. Banners that not only read, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GORO AKECHI! but also...

CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR FRIENDSHIP!

This particular banner has cutesy illustrations of a normal Akechi and Falcon. Yes, really.

There are multiple, multi-layered cakes. One is an angel food cake, decorated to resemble Robin Hood. Then there's another cake, fashioned after Loki, with lovingly decorated dazzle camouflage frosting. Inside is a heavenly red velvet.

Lastly, there's a purely chocolate delight, patterned after Hereward.

There are even little Gorb cupcakes, designed to look like the myriad Akechis resident in the Velvet Room. Fresh brewed coffee and Jazz Jin mocktails await those who seek a beverage, and there's even some curry. How thoughtful!

So... care to mingle?]

Comments

[gorobo]

"Yeah. Yeah. That sounds," terrifying. Horrific. Like his worst fear, and yet-- "okay. Fine."

As fine as it can get, probably. He... it's really, really fucking scary. This could fuck him up forever. Wolf could change him irreparably, and he wouldn't even know.

But it's Wolf. He doesn't... he doesn't know if he can trust it, not fully.

But there's nobody else capable of that he'd even think of trusting with this.

"I'd. Like to do get it over with as soon as possible." Before he loses his nerve.

[rookandhound]

"Alright. Just, um."

What could he even say that would make this less terrifying?

"Try to relax, I guess. I'm not sure how this will feel to you, but it's never once damaged anything, so-"

"Goro, I rather think he meant 'as soon as is possible once we're in a more private setting', and not 'right this very instant'."

A beat.

"Ah. Right. Yeah, that. would. make way more sense."

[gorobo]

For a moment, Falcon tenses, realizing he hadn't made himself clear-- wait, no, not in the middle of a crowd, not--

Thankfully, Rookmon intercepts Wolf, and he lets out a small, robotic noise of relief.

"Yes, I... meant it more like that. Let me just..."

He shoots a quick text at Magpie, letting him know what's happening. Having done that, he nods at Wolf and Rookmon.

"Right. Let's... go, then."

[rookandhound]

"Okay. Sorry, I guess I'm just. Nervous, too. I don't..."

He sighed, and followed. "I don't want to screw this up. It's important. You're. Important."