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Who: Kaworu Nagisa, anyone else
Broadcast: text
Action: For now he's a busybody aboard the Vanquish, unless you'd like to discuss anything else.
When: 6/6, midmorning

They sell candles in packs of 8, 10, 12, 24, 48... and some packages even larger than that. Well, a certain type of candle, the kind that goes into the cake. Initially I needed exactly 16 candles, so the package of 24 would have been reasonable, right? But I thought it might be nice just to use all 24 after all.

Then I thought that a package of 48 might be just as nice as a package of 24. If not even nicer. It seemed worth trying.

Anyway, I have some sets of candles, now, the type specific to the cake, but if each candle represents a year of life, I wondered why I should stop at 16, 24, 48, etc. I have some bigger candles in my sleeping quarters, as well, so that's a few more I can add, but the higher the number of them I have, the less it seems like enough. It would be good to have a table full of them. A room full of them. It would be good to have candles like the sweep of stars.

I'm sure I can repay you, if you'd like to lend me any of your own. I promise I won't melt them all the way.

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[In this episode of "can Kaworu Nagisa keep a secret or surprise to save his life"...]

Do you want me to bring a fire extinguisher?

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[Erm, with that specific qualifier... Okay, Kaworu's track record is admittedly bad, but he's been known to get carried away.]

They're for blowing out!

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[Just when she almost hopes he's improving.]

I know.

Do you even have something to put them in?

[Something like a cake, maybe?]

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Not yet. I'm behind schedule.

[Because he was busy buying........

Yikes. "Carried away" might be generous. Then again, if he was that meticulous about an out-of-date piano during the post-apocalypse, who knows what he's willing to do where something like today is concerned...]

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I will in about an hour.

[Asuka's time has been divvied up in a pretty unenviable fashion ever since finally, finally deciding on her gift. Luckily, she figures she has the cake ingredients pretty much on hand.]

I thought you had everything. [It's not exactly a judgment call, even if it comes off one. Last night, he'd listed off so many things he'd gotten for Shinji, so...] You think we can do the party together?

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No, I definitely don't have everything. [I never have everything, he means, which he thought would be obvious by now, but Asuka and Shinji both muster some sort of faith in him regardless.

That's why what he does have has got to be especially good.]

I think we can do it, yeah. Do you want me to do anything between now and then?

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No, you're fine.

Same place?

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Same place sounds good.

Hey, what are you going to wear?

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[Asuka's startled, and vaguely annoyed, that he's asked, partly because she's been mulling over that exact same question ever since the two gulps of water that passed as breakfast earlier this morning. She's started on the cake, at least, but she's still in a slightly ratty pink bathrobe.]

Something he made me. I'm not sure what.

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That's going to make him blush. It's cute.

I'm still choosing, too, so I was just wondering.