I had just poured a cup of coffee and was sitting down in front of my desk when Dhanassin walked up, a big grin on her face.

Dana, as we called her, had blue hair like my own, though a bit lighter (and she kept hers blue, as opposed to mine: streaked heavily with blonde so it looked more like I had blue streaks and blonde hair than the true blonde streaks and blue hair). Her eyes sparkled and her red lips were turned upwards in a grin.

“What?” I asked, grinning back.

“Jeeno and I had the most brilliant idea! You know, Bry’s birthday is coming up, right?”

Yeah, we celebrated birthdays. We didn’t age and we weren’t born, so they weren’t real. But hey, everyone likes to get presents.

“Yeah,” I said, trying on a bit of her excitement. Normally easy, she had a rather infectious personality, but gods I had such a bad hang over today.

“Well we were thinking of doing a surprise thing! It will be so much fun, don’t you think? He won’t expect it at all!”

I snorted. Bry hated surprises.