Claire's not exactly in a good place with losing all her people, buuuuut she's getting invited to the birthday party and will make an effort to show up for Ellie.

No feelsy conversation to be had with other guests present, buuuuut if you want we could also put them into a day 40 sleepover getting trapped in 1301? the living room is a bit of a wreck because *someone* took their mental breakdown out on it, but, yeah. It's just claire alone in there, so if you wanted to have ellie visit, they could get stuck together.