"Hey, Bazzle!"
"Allerton. What are you doing here? ...In the dining hall. During meal time… I seem to have asked a foolish question."
"It's all good, Baz! I was hoping I'd find you here so I could ask you who you got for the gift exchange."
"The point of this ridiculous gift exchange is that no one is supposed to know who they will get their present from. If I told you, you could work out by process of elimination who is paired together."
"...I'm gonna be honest. I stopped listening after 'gift exchange.' I'm so hyped! I can't wait to see what my person got me!"
"Indeed. I've never cared for the exchanging of gifts, but there is more cause to be in a 'festive' mood this year. We have reclaimed the City. The Red Legion is-"
"Yeah, yeah. All that. But also snow! And people put lights up! And there's an SRL thing! And snowballs!"
"You're very enthusiastic about this holiday, Allerton."
"Who wouldn't be? Anyway, tell me who you got."
"I will not."
"C'mon, Baz."
"No."
"Baaaaaaaaaaaaaazzzzzzzzzllllleeeeeeeeeee."
"I will not compromise the gift exchange."
"Fine then. Don't tell me. What'd you get them? ...Why're you making that face? Wait. You dropped it off the Tower by accident? No, wait. A Dreg ate it. No, wait. You forgot to get it… Ohmygod that's it! You forgot to get the present!"
"I did no such thing."
"Hahahaha! Someone's not getting a present! Is it Liv? Please tell me it's Liv! She'd flip!"
"There is still time to salvage this. The exchange isn't for another… thirteen and a half minutes. Allerton, you must stall them until I return."
"Sure. Only if you admit I'm the best Guardian in the team."
"I will not tell lies on the Dawning."
"Hey! Rude! I don't have to stall for you. I don't have anything to lose from this. But you can save the Dawning! Just admit, in front of the group, that I'm the best."
"I see no way of negotiating out of this… Very well. Now stall. I have a shop to find!"
"You got it, Baz! It's time to introduce my friends to the story of how an innocent quest to make a grilled cheese sandwich led to a death and subsequent resurrection."