"It passed." So there. No birthdays in space unless he's here for almost another year. (Bloody fucking Merlin, another year.) Anyway: "You seem to have come out of it all right."

Which is Snapeish for You're welcome, maybe. He's not good at that, or 'Thank you', either, which Charles has surely picked up on by now. He looks down at the pie slices, not sure if he finds it surreal or annoying. But not even he hates pie.