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It occurs to me now that my birthday is probably coming up, seeing as it has already passed here once before. I was probably dead at the time-- Barge dead, that is, since I am already as deceased as can be-- or in a port, or lost in a flood. I don't know how old I would be... Thirty-two forever, or would I be approaching thirty-four now? I don't feel any older, physically; no wear and tear outside of injuries. Mentally, I suppose it's a different matter entirely.

It's odd to think that I've let my last birthday slip without any thought. But then, I hardly keep up with time at all any more. It's difficult to think of it continuing for me when I'm no longer part of any world. The only way I really ever track it, these days, is through this...

[There's a long pause as he looks over things in his journal and begins to do the math]

Oh, you have got to be joking. I could not have possibly--

[HAVE SOME OUTRAGE]

ONE HUNDRED ENTRIES?! I have been here for over a year; have I really done nothing more with my time than dawdle about with a journal like a teenage girl? This is what my afterlife is?













I could use something to drink. Right now.

[OOC: I've decided that West's a Scorpio, since it seems to fit his moody craziness, so YAY I GUESS THIS MEANS HIS BIRTHDAY'S COMING UP IN A COUPLE MONTHS LOL. But only Billy and probably Morgan would know that]

Date: 2009-09-07 09:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lazarusrisen.livejournal.com
Better than the cynicism of...however old I am.

Marvelous.

Date: 2009-09-07 09:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] major-west.livejournal.com
How does it feel, living so long after you lose hope?

Date: 2009-09-07 10:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lazarusrisen.livejournal.com
Awful. You just keep hoping that you'll find hope in something new. A new person, a new event, a new cause, anything.

Date: 2009-09-07 10:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] major-west.livejournal.com
I suppose I was lucky; that feeling didn't last long for me.

Did you ever find something?

Date: 2009-09-07 10:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lazarusrisen.livejournal.com
Various things. My wives helped inspire hope, they gave me reason to do something. But they either failed my expectations or died. Wars inspire. There's nothing as exhilerating as running through a battlefield. And then there was the Company.

Date: 2009-09-07 10:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] major-west.livejournal.com
You know, ten years in the military, and I'd never had a proper battlefield experience. Not like I was trained for, at least.

I've heard about that, here and there. What's so important about it?

Date: 2009-09-08 03:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lazarusrisen.livejournal.com
Heard about what? The Company?

Date: 2009-09-08 03:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] major-west.livejournal.com
Yes. I've seen that name before.

Date: 2009-09-08 03:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lazarusrisen.livejournal.com
I'll tell you over drinks.

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