An Ancient Terran Holiday

"I didn't forget your birthday, Rokk."

I miss you.

"Neither did Pol - see? He made you a birthday card. He wrote those letters himself!"

I miss you.

"The 'R' looks kind of like an 'a', but that's okay. I told him you'd know what it meant."

Memory, frozen in time.

"I said I'd bring it with me when I came, and -- and he wanted to know..."

Out of time.

"...he wanted to know why I was coming three days after your birthday..."

I miss you.

"...and I told him a little more of your favorite subject, you big nerd. I told him about silly Earth holidays that no one even remembers the origins of anymore, and he said wasn't that just like Klordny? and I told him he was just as argumentative as *you* are..."

So much.

"...and, and-- Rokk, I miss you."

Lydda...

"Happy Valentine's Day, my love."

...my love.