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"Hi, Cal! You're not wearing your eyepatch?" Enzo is wearing his!

Cal shakes his head. "It kills my depth perception," he explains. Because obviously depth perception is important when you are sitting at a table not doing much of anything.

"Yeah, but it's Pirate Day!" He grins. "I didn't even know there was a Pirate Day!"

"Neither did I." For Enzo's sake, Cal smiles cheerfully. "Having fun?"

"We had a battle outside! On a ship! And then we attacked Mike on the shore and pillaged his food!"

That is a definite yes.

Cal laughs, much more real than the smile a few seconds ago. Enzo tends to have that effect on him. "Didja win?"

"...we didn't lose?"

"Everybody won?" Cal guesses. That's the best kind of ship battle.

"Uh, yeah." Close enough. "We all teamed up at the end for the pillaging part."

"Cool," Cal says. "Sounds like it was fun."

"It totally was! We fell out of the rigging."

That's the part with all the sails and stuff, right?

"You okay?" Cal asks, even though he clearly is.

"Yeah, we hit a lot of stuff on the way down."

So reassuring, that is.

Very.

"Oh. Well. Good," Cal says, bemused. But Enzo appears to be all right, so he leaves it at that.

"How do humans decide what gets a holiday?"

For Cal, who has not yet worked out what is behind all the nonsense going on today, this question is completely out of left field. SO he flounders for a few seconds.

"Uh. Uh, I - I don't really know. A lot of them are religious. Celebrating the good things," he adds, what with religion and Enzo still not being one of his favorite combinations. "Others are just - fun."

"This is one of the fun ones, right?" For all he knows, there might be something in some religion involving pirates, but...

Confused pause.

"If this is a holiday, it isn't one I've heard of."

Unless it's a very strongly themed Halloween or something, but it isn't that time yet, is it?

Now Enzo's confused. "Bar usually only dresses people up for holidays."

Cal can't decide whether this piece of information is unnerving or reassuring. This is a regular occurrence?

"I did ask what was going on" - sort of - "but all I got was this." He shows Enzo a napkin that says, Arrrrr.

Enzo bursts out laughing. "Bar's pretty weird sometimes."

"Yeah, I definitely noticed," Cal says a bit dryly. He is smiling, though. No need to spoil Enzo's fun.

"It's almost Hallowe'en again, right?"

"I don't know," Cal says. He's said that a lot during this conversation. "I - don't even know what month it is here. It was May when - back home. Almost my birthday, actually. Doesn't mean anything here, though. I'll have to ask what month it is sometime."

It seems odd to think of Milliways going by an ordinary calendar. It would definitely be the first ordinary thing about this place.

"It's September here," Enzo informs him. "There's a calendar on the board, 'cause of the werewolves."