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[alt_charlie]

Thank you to everyone who's sent birthday greetings, and to everyone here at the reserve who's gone out of their way to make today such a lovely day!

(And special thanks to Copacati, our Peruvian Vipertooth, who could've bit me today and restrained herself. Don't think she knew it was my birthday, but I appreciate it anyway.)

Now I'm going to go back to pretending I don't know about the birthday cake Emmett's been cooking up for me for dinner, and defending my Mum's shortbread against all comers. If any of you lot of ravenous beasts want some of it, you'll have to ask really nicely.

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Private Message to Deirdre ní Mháille

[alt_charlie]

Look, love, you know that I hate it when you two fight, but I hate it even more when it feels like the fight has something to do with me. And I don't mean in the "you'll ruin Charlie's birthday" sort of way, and you'd better believe I gave him a right telling off for that as soon as you'd left.

If you're upset with him over something, tell him. Don't use me as an excuse. I know everyone's on edge right now, but I said right up front when we started all this: I won't get between you two. And I won't let either of you shove me there, either, no matter how hard you try. I love you both, but you two are the ones who need to sort this out, and not use me as a reason to pick at each other.

And if this isn't working for you, you just have to tell me. I know this was your idea in the first place, but I won't be at all offended if you decide it's time to move on. Honest. I'd rather keep you both as friends than have this whole thing go down in flames, yeah?