March 25, 2049
Real Time AM07:01
With a burst of soothing and melodious music, Motan, who had just logged out, gradually came to consciousness inside the Game Cabin and was taken aback by the somewhat familiar tune by his ear. It took him a while to snap out of it before he opened the cabin's hatch from the inside with mixed feelings of amusement and resignation. He then got up to set the Game Cabin to sleep mode and turned off the flowing birthday song.
He remembered that today was his birthday according to the Gregorian calendar, March 25th...
To be honest, Motan didn't have any particular feelings about his birthday and had never seriously celebrated it – not during his time in the orphanage when he was young, nor in the years since he had been living on his own. He had never taken this day, which seemed to hold significant commemorative value to others, to heart.
