[Ugh...listen. There was a slim chance maybe he wanted to go out for coffee? ...no, okay, he knew exactly what it was but he still asked anyway. Maybe to delay having to give an answer. Because this is the sort of thing two adult, male friends would do on a birthday. But...]

Yeah let's...definitely not cook with that. [Please let's not set the castle on fire? He likes it a lot.] But...maybe some other time. That's something we should do at night, right? I'm still having a little trouble drinking in my new form.

[It's hard to drink with a dog snout when you...uh. Don't want to lap things out of a bowl like a dog.]