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Chapter 7: No Celebration
It was August 13, 49, 999 BC, Norm's first birthday. Neither Norm nor his masters knew the date or whose birthday it was. However, Norm's parents did. Time didn't have the meaning for magical creatures that it did for humans. Magical creatures could just Time Scooter into the future. While in the future, a Pixie had found out about the Gregorian calendar and told all the other magical creatures how it worked. Pixies were good for that kind of stuff, even if they were the antithesis of what all the other magical creatures represented. Therefore, Norm's parents knew the date and whose birthday it was, even if the birthday boy didn't.
Fern wished she, Percy and Norm were in Genie World, so they could celebrate Norm's birthday with them, but she instead was enslaved to humans in a stupid container! She knew Norm was suffering - who else could give him a bottle, a bath or sing him to sleep when he needed it?
However, she knew it would be wrong to trick her masters into setting her free and everything she directly asked for, the humans made it into religion-based nonsense. Fern groaned. What was the use of being treated like a religious figure if people garbled up whatever they said to fit their out-there interpretations?
She began to picture the presents she'd give Norm and how happy he'd be to receive them, but she couldn't actually give them to him and see his joy.
Percy also noticed it was Norm's birthday. He wondered if Norm's dumb as flea hit on the head by too much uranium and too many rocks masters had lowered Norm's intelligence at all. When they lived in Genie World, Percy had tried to get Norm to listen to Mozart and Beethoven as he went to sleep, in order to increase his intelligence, but Norm preferred Fern's singing to the great classics of the future. Percy wondered how something from the future could be a classic in the present. That was certainly a paradox.
Percy also mourned the fact he couldn't see if Norm's childhood development matched what it said in academic texts about childhood development. Percy had a feeling that being trapped in a lamp and enslaved to humans would cause Norm's development to negatively deviate from normal child development. Mistrust certainly would win the conflict of Trust vs. Mistrust in Infancy, as postulated in Erikson's stages of psychological development.
Percy knew if he and Fern raised Norm that probably wouldn't happen. He wondered what geographical location they were at. However, Percy guessed that he wouldn't be able to help them without tricking his master and even after almost a year of slavery, he still didn't think it was right. So, he had to spend eternity in his lamp…