☀️ Arselia and Akonia

Beata and Guion exchanged a melancholic glance after Erefir's response. Beata wasn't even sure about the exact date of her birthday and allowed for a margin of error of plus or minus a week. Something from her childhood stuck in her memory – some relatives had celebrated her birthday once or twice shortly after the new year... But it was just an excuse for her parents to get completely drunk and argue, forgetting about the birthday girl after five minutes. The next time her birthday was celebrated, they kicked her out of the circus. Since then, she had celebrated either alone or with Guion, usually buying treats or something stronger and making impulsive purchases.
Guion's situation wasn't much better. On his birthday, he was usually berated, reminded of all the mistakes he had made during the year, and told that he was already a grown man, that he should pull himself together, think things through, and not disgrace his mother and father. The gifts were strictly practical or hinted that he needed to try harder, with no entertainment or anything for the soul. In the army, due to his introverted nature, he didn't have many friends, and he had already grown to dislike his birthday so much that he decided not to celebrate it at all. And then... then he started celebrating in a similar way to Beata, because it was her idea. For his first birthday, she found some cool healer who, for an exorbitant sum, restored his souvenirs from Lower Lunaria, and somehow managed to get a real festive cake... But it still couldn't replace the ruined childhood for either of them.