It wasn't for my birthday. I've not gotten birthday presents since I won my Cloth, though I'm sure that if he could find me, Shun would give me something every year.

[A pause.]

I don't put it past him to have a stock of presents for me that he wanted to give me and couldn't, though I would hope for him to have better sense than that.

[And know that the idea of getting a present he knows he won't be able to give to the person he wants to give it to is just plain stupid.]

Thatch. Marco's too much of a fail to be a mom.

Anyway, isn't there anyone like that back in your world for you? I don't have anyone whom I consider my parents, but there's someone whom I see as a father for one of my brothers at the very least.