why don't you try speaking in words instead of your damn dirty lies?!

[agonise]

FORCED HONESTY MEME

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[sweariff]

Three hundred and sixty-two. [A beat, then:] So far. I think.

... And how long have you been doing the, uh. Bat thing?

[agonise]

Twelve years.

"So far, I think."

[sweariff]

And you're thirty-seven.

[There's something a little strange about this, and it's not the fact that Bigby doesn't know his own age.

He sighs.]

I didn't start keeping track of my age until I came to your world.

[agonise]

No birthdays in the Hundred Acre Wood?

[sweariff]

No point. Animals don't tend to celebrate birthdays.

["Tend to" being the key phrase here. There are exceptions.]

How long are you gonna keep doing it?

[agonise]

Until it kills me.

[sweariff]

So... forties, fifties, sixties? [He lists each one off with increasing uncertainty, pauses, then:] ... Seventies?

[agonise]

I know a lot of things, but I don't know when I'm going to die.

[sweariff]

That's not what I meant, it's just— isn't that a little too old to be dressing up like that?

[agonise]

It's not 'dressing up'.

[sweariff]

What would you call it then?

[agonise]

Armor. Like a uniform. It's not Halloween.