31_days | [15-Feb-2007] [Azumanga Daioh] Snuffed Candles

Title: Snuffed Candles
Challenge: 15-Feb-2007 "candles for the dead"
Based on: Azumanga Daioh
Characters: Osaka, Yomi
Type: Humor; 100 words
Warnings: None.

Azumanga Daioh © Kiyohiko Azuma / Mediaworks / Azumanga Daioh Committee / ADV Films.

"Yomi?" asked Osaka. "You know how, when people in the United States celebrate a birthday, they have a cake with candles?"

"Yes?" said Yomi.

"And they add a candle for each year after you're born?" Osaka asked earnestly.

"Yes, that's right."

"Does that mean that they take away a candle for each year after you've died?"

Yomi sighed, and answered the question with another question. "Why would you celebrate a 'deathday' with a cake?"

Osaka replied with yet another question. "Why wouldn't you celebrate a 'deathday' with a cake? Cakes are good enough for birthdays."

"My brain hurts," Yomi said.