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Lan does not want a bird, whether of flesh or artifice, but it is not the reason Gingetsu does not buy him one. It is not, as Lan says, because a bird would outlast him, become an inconvenience and a memory when the inevitable comes too soon.

Gingetsu is more selfish than that.

Gingetsu watches Lan watch him from the window, flit to the kitchen to bring him coffee, sit by him and take small treats he brings home from his hand.

If Lan could live forever, if he wished for a bird, Gingetsu still would not buy him one.