[Avoiding the question had been an answer of sorts, one that he's glad not to be pushed on. For once it would be too much for him to translate for her. He's given up frontiers, one after another, against better intentions. The ground is shaky enough as it is.
And he'd told her, not so long ago, the most important thing. I'm glad you're here. If keeping things as they are means avoiding questions then he can, for once, check himself into not asking for more.]
My birthday's in February.
[It's an odd shift in conversation but, that time last year, only three people here had known. Only one had remembered.]
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And he'd told her, not so long ago, the most important thing. I'm glad you're here. If keeping things as they are means avoiding questions then he can, for once, check himself into not asking for more.]
My birthday's in February.
[It's an odd shift in conversation but, that time last year, only three people here had known. Only one had remembered.]