Well it's time to celebrate your birthday, it happens every year

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WHO: Anders, Nathaniel, and invitees!
WHAT: Fancy birthday party in Camp Shady
WHEN: Harvestmere 27, evening
WHERE: Camp Shady
NOTES: Will update.

Since many Wardens moved into the Kestrel House, there is plenty of space in the camp for a big top tent. Finding enough candlesticks, tables, and chairs required a lot of time and a number of bribes to pull off. The tables are nicely draped with fabric lent by one of Anders' patients, and each is decorated with flowers. The tent is alight and smells like good food--more donations from grateful patients.

One of the Wardens is known for her fiddling, and she plays lively dances and crooning ballads. In the center table is an ice sculpture of a cat chasing a butterfly (you guessed it--donated by a mage patient). It glitters spectacularly in the candlelight.

On the menu is a slow-roasted pig, spiced hot cider, spectacular salads, jams, cakes, delectably seasoned vegetables, a lamb-flank, and your choice of wine. There is even a hard-won bottle of Antivan brandy Nathaniel had to win several card games to achieve.

Relax, enjoy, greet the birthday boy, and mingle. The nights will be cold soon, but under this tent, life glows.

Comments

[justice_is_blond]

Anders smiles at the bark, giving Garahel one more pat before withdrawing his arm.

"Then work on it we shall... but not tonight, as I don't want Nathaniel to be annoyed. A few days from now? We can meet up and discuss it, try a few preliminary theories? And perhaps for now I'll circulate a little more among my guests?" A short beat. "Not that your company isn't lovely. I enjoy it. I think, though, that I should be trying to speak with everyone here."

[circleprodigy]

Nodding at the suggestion, Inessa smiles understandingly. She isn't going to be so selfish as to have Anders abandon good manners in front of his guests. "Please, don't let me keep you from circulating. We can speak more later, when there are less demands on your attention."