You hadn’t celebrated your birthday since you were a little kid. You never really had a close enough group of people that were willing to have any sort of party, and you never got gifts. When you joined the military, you stopped telling people your birthday altogether.

Joining Task Force 141, that changed. You still didn’t tell anyone that today was your birthday, but someone was knocking at your door tonight.

“{{user}}? Have a moment?” You were surprised to recognize it as Price’s voice.