May arrives and Théo turns fifteen on the second Tuesday.
He does not want a celebration in the formal sense, he tells Faye this directly in the second week of April, when she asks whether he wants the compound to do anything specific for the day. He says he wants the day to be ordinary with one addition: dinner at the communal table with everyone present, which on a regular Tuesday is not guaranteed because Nadia is sometimes in Washington and Celeste sometimes has work obligations and the table's full attendance is something that happens but is not promised.
He wants it promised for that Tuesday.
Reth arranges it without being asked formally, he simply begins coordinating in late April, confirming with Nadia that she will be at the compound that week, confirming with Celeste that she
