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So does your birthday still count if you technically skipped four months?

[This is an important question being posed over your journals, Luceti. Because if it does count, Zatanna's fifteen today. Not that she's been advertising it a lot. Holidays have been kind of hard on her since Halloween, and today really isn't an exception. It's the first birthday she's spent without her father, and in the superhero business? That's saying something.

She tries not to let it get her down, though--or at least, not to show that it is. Maybe if someone catches her when she's alone, they'll see hints of it. Staring off into space with a frown at some reminder. There's bound to be plenty, since she's raiding the library for books on magic and the item shop for more stage friendly props. The training she does daily at the battle dome (with her birthday being no exception) isn't the only thing she should keep up with.

So at some point during the afternoon, she'll try to find bored people in the plaza, cards in hand. It'll be better than just the "think of your card and I'll name it" bit, promise. Sometimes she sticks to sleight of hand, while others she may employ a backwards chant. Maybe it's not all that impressive in a place where anyone can learn magic, but she doesn't want those skills to deteriorate. It's the one connection she's got to her father, the person who taught her what she knows.

Eventually, she'll head back to Community House 5 when she starts thinking about dinner.]

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[Zatanna laughs a little at that, taking her cake from the employee and heading toward an empty table nearby.] Don’t worry. I’m sure he won’t ruin his dark persona by saying thanks. [Whether he appreciates it or not. Robin isn’t exactly the go to guy for polite gestures.]

Yeah, that’s true. Especially when you think about the fact that most of us are from different universes. [Which could make it harder in some cases, should it turn out the Robins here don’t fight like the Robin back in Zatanna’s world.] Maybe it’s something we should look into setting up soon. It’d probably be good before we all ended up on a mission or a draft or something.

[He follows her to the table, taking a seat across from her, and nodding at what she says.]

Yeah, no kidding. I know improv's part of the job, but even that could be hard if we don't know how everyone works. [There's a pause as he takes a bite of his cake.] Not that I'm worried. I'm pretty sure we've all got at least a little team experience.

Yeah. A lot of our practice back home was how to work together as a unit. [Thankfully Zatanna hadn’t been around for the days before the pecking order was established. Those missions were pretty wince-worthy, or at least that’s what she’d been told.] It’ll be weird actually talking out loud for it, though. Back home, Miss Martian would telepathically link us all so we could just talk by thinking about it.

Whoa. Sounds handy. [More than just handy, actually. It sounds really cool.] I don't think they had anything like that where I came from. They seemed to do alright, though.

Well, yeah. The superheroes didn't always have access to it where I'm from either. [But it's both super useful and yeah, super cool.] Let's just hope Artemis and I haven't gotten too spoiled.

Compared to what we've got here, I think we're all kind of spoiled. [He misses his everything at home, to be honest.] But I'm sure we'll manage. That's what we're supposed to do.

Yep. Triumph over adversity, or something like that.

[There’s a lot to miss—but some good things to make up for it. Like the bite of cake Zatanna takes then.]

Oh wow. This is so good.

Not bad, right? It's still pretty weird to think this stuff is free sometimes. But hey, if it always tastes this good, I'm not going to complain.

No kidding. But when you think about how many people actually work around here, you have to figure they must be pretty bored or really in love with what they do. [Zatanna really doesn’t see much reason to have a job like cooking or waiting tables otherwise.]

It's pretty impressive. I mean, even if they are just really bored, it takes a lot to stick to it, you know? There's no way I could do it.

[It wasn't that he couldn't be dedicated, because he could totally be! It's just that... well. He was too restless.]

I think we’re allowed though, since we’re teenagers. [They were dedicated to their own causes, sure. But day labor? No thank you.] Although that does bring up the whole question of school in the fall.

There's a question? [He's teasing. Kind of.] I've really been enjoying my extended summer vacation.

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