He could not cope. It was not possible.

"Is that how it goes," he said, a bit quieter now that the initial surprise was giving way to everything else. A present and a cake. Nice food on the big day. Might as well stay and make it a party with terribly kind faces that wanted to be here. This was all actually really overwhelming now that he was processing it.

"I dunno what you think a lot would be, if this isn't much."