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That's probably cause you are.

Well, according to my personal assistant I am Over the Hill.

I'm not sure what the specific age for that is, but yeah. Seems like it.

It's not important. I'll let that one be a mystery.

Ouch though, that hurts. What happens when you live forever, huh? When you get to be an old man like myself?

I'll just use you as the baseline.

No one's gonna live forever, man.

I can't be the oldest person you know!

That's for sure, but you're not going to be this young forever either.

I'm sure I'm older, in one way or another.

I'm sure there are people older than you too. But that doesn't make me feel any younger I admit.

There always is, but I think 1811 is a good birth year.

Pretty sure you are. I'm trying to think of someone older but I'm drawing a blank.

Yeah, don't remind me. That part of my life is a long way away.

I'd be shocked, had I not known a man who had been born in the 1650's. He was a very angry and frustrated man. So I'm sorry.

Oh, I'm not a sad man. I tend to be very happy, actually!

Well I'm not as old as I look, being this incredibly amazing takes a lot out of you.

It'll happen sooner than you think. One minute you're watching a young Joel Hodgson tear apart B Movies to get you through high school and the next thing you know you see them all on stage at a reunion special and wonder when the hell you got so old.

I don't think he was sad. I think he was tired. But that's good.

I think that being a wendigo helps. A sense of humor doesn't hurt either . . . *His jokes are mostly horrifying, but that's the wendigo for you.*

I think, after a certain amount of time, getting to be that old would be a burden on anyone. But I suppose it helps to have a good sense of humour about it.

So how old are you then?

Nah, I make sure I'm living it up all the way, for as long as I can. Shit won't pass me by. Plus, who knows. By the time I'm twenty one, maybe they'll come up with some scientific shit that'll keep me young forever.

Old enough to know better, young enough not to care?

Hey no one said I wasn't living it up, just that I got slapped in the face with my own age. Though me living it up and you living it up are entirely different, I know.
I don't think I'd like that much. Being young forever. Of course I didn't really like it the first time around.

Not getting attached to people is also helpful, although it leaves you rather lonely. So perhaps it's a good thing that I have trouble making friends. *He has problems with the whole 'do not stab them' part, you see.*

How high and mighty of you. [he snorts]

Well, if you were young forever, you could do it all over again until you got it right. [He shrugs] I'd do some shit differently too.

I just turned 39, which is not over the hill yet.

But I'm assuming you'd have to relive the past and my past was not nearly as thrilling as yours has been. I assure you. It was mostly just torture. When I was your age I was just finishing college in a city I didn't know, in a country I barely understood still. And while it would be nice to try and do things differently I'd rather not relive all that rubbish. Besides the things we do define who we are as a person.
[He offers a smile though.] Mind if I ask what you would do, if you could go back?

I can imagine, though I'm rather good at the whole distancing myself from people thing so I suppose that's one aspect, if I had to live forever, I could muddle through alright.

You probably don't want to imagine, though, do you? *Friends are delicious!*

You seem nice enough, though. Perhaps we could be friends? I promise not to stab you . . .

Oh, shit. I thought you were like forty five, minimum.

Finishing college? When did you start? School shit definitely makes life torture. It's been a lot better since I finished high school. The fun stuff like partying and all that was definitely living it up, but the rest was bullshit. I dunno, maybe it wasn't as great as I thought it was. But yeah, it does define us.

Um... party less, maybe. Or, get less wasted cause I'm paying for it now. I would've run away from home and found a better family a lot sooner. But then I might not have met Ronan, or Matt and Jen, and that would be worse.

Really? I thought you thought I was sixty.

When I was seventeen. It wasn't hard to graduate in Florida. But it was a whole different bear when I came up to New York for college. But I made it through. I didn't do any of that when I was a kid, I went to a few parties but... I was never really invited back. Don't discredit your memories, not all mine were bad either. The good ones are important, that's why you remember them.

There's an up and down to every path we choose. But I understand that, I mean. I don't know you all that well, yet. But I think I can understand wanting to change those things, at least for you. But you're right on that front. There might not have even been a need for those people in your life, had you had the chance to change that.