"Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, happy birthd…" Manya and others sang as I blew away the candles on the massive cake, they had brought.
It is as big as and we are only seven people.
"Happy birthday to you, Micheal," they finished.
"Thank you all for accepting my invitation to celebrate this day," I said.
It is my first ti celebrating my birthday since I ca here. I don't like to, but I need to be more social.
Being closed off isn't good for my psychological health.
I looked at six people. All of them are my friends. So I had done a mission with while so shared the sa profession, except for Ehys.
He is Manya's boyfriend.
I began to cut the cake and ate with them.
It is good. Though, I would have baked better.
I quickly pushed that throw away. I couldn't always compare myself with others.
"Who brought the ga?" asked Manya. "," said Joriv. He is a healer with in the hospital.
A minute later, seven of us sitting on the floor of my living room, playing the ga of Orion West. It is a tradition of Tor.
The ga, too, had been invented in the organization.
There is a yearly competition for it, and the organization offers a massive prize for the winners. One of the prizes is a day with the Pri.
People in the organization are really serious about it.
All the six people around had serious expressions. As they kill each other's pieces and capture more territory.
"Hey!" Manya scread, glaring at Ehys as he conquered her seat.
"You are my girlfriend, but I want to win the ga, darling," said the elf, before leading his army toward Kala's territory.
He captured it, before moving to mine.
I had prepared a good defense, but he broke them one after another, before conquering my seat.
I had tried hard, but the man was good.
He moved like a beast, but his army was tactical. Just when you thought, you would be able to hold him back, he brings out the force, that destroys yours.
The only other one who was able to conquer was Joriv and an hour later, only two of them remained.
Their forces clashed on land and sea. Both lost so and won so, but the final victory went to Ehys.
It is a pyrrhic victory, but a victory, nonetheless.
"You are good. I hope we will face each other directly, in this year's competition," said Ehys.
"Sure. I wanted to face you for years," replied Joriv.
"Now, that ga is over, let's eat," I said. "Finally," said Kala, and we walked to the table, while the clones served the dinner.
One clone had brought, an inconspicuous bottle of wine.
The clone filled the glasses, with yellow golden wine. The quantity was lesser than normal but didn't look like it because of the design of the glass, but everyone could see.
However, nobody comnted, as most of them were focused on the delicious-slling food in front of them.
Still, they raised their glasses.
Click!
"To Micheal," said Manya.
"To Micheal," the other repeated as they clinked the glasses, before taking them to their lips.
As they did, they froze.
The glasses are special. They would contain the energy, and sll and even restrict the soul sense trying to scan the content inside.
Manya's whole body shook, before she took the sip, closing her eyes a mont later.
Everyone did the sa and didn't open their eyes for over ten minutes and when they did, there was a deep shock in them.
"It's n..nectar, isn't it?" Manya asked hesitantly, and I nodded.
"It's luck, that I got a bottle, and I wanted to share it with you all," I said with a smile.
There is not a hint of doubt in her eyes about it. She could never guess that it was crafted from the formula, she had given .
"I have only heard about the nectar, never thought, I would be able to drink one," he said, looking at the yellow-gold liquid in glass.
"Just one sip had made feel like I am in a lake of power, that slowly getting absorbed by . Strengthening , little by little," added Ehys.
They kept looking at it for a while, before taking another sip and closing their eyes again.
"You should eat food too; it complents the nectar well," I advised as they opened their eyes again.
They nodded and ate food in front of them.
"It's delicious as always and tastes even more delicious, thanks to the nectar," said Manya, and took another bite of her food.
It had taken an hour to think about the best food, that complented the nectar.
I barely manage to do it, even with thousands of recipes and one of the best culinary skills in the organization.
"It's the best al, I had in my life," said Ehys as he finished, before his eyes turned serious.
'Micheal, do you perhaps have another bottle of nectar?' he asked telepathically.
'I could pay you a good price for it,' he asked a mont later. 'I wish; I had got only one,' I replied with a voice full of regret.
A few seconds later, the others also enquired, including Manya. So had straight up said what they were willing to offer in exchange.
One made interested, but cald myself. They are not people; I want to sell.
There is soone else I have in mind. They will pay a much better price than them.
So, I politely rejected their offers.
"Once again, happy birthday, Micheal, and thank you, for giving one of the best nights of my life," said Manya two hours later, as she got up to leave.
"I am glad," I said, and she smiled.
'Think about my offer,' she said one last ti, before walking out of the door.
I closed it and walked toward the wall and sat down on my chair, in the house, which had beco empty again.
Ting Ting!
A few minutes passed and I was looking at the view, when the doorbell rang.
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