Should the castle's residents be wandering as evening falls through the windows, they might hear the soft strains of music coming from down a hall, around a corner, behind a closed door. Regardless of where they are, or how far they are from the source of the sound, it will lead them all to the same place: a veranda high up on the castle's southern ( Read more... )

In the noise of the others leaving to find their missing people, Peter hoped no one would miss him slipping off into the woods in the direction his little all-purpose-communicator-and-map-thing told him Olivia was. Let the rest of them find the others. He was getting Dunham away from creepy scientists for a while ( Read more... )

When Sark returns, it's not to the barracks, where he had believed himself to have been stuck during that bloody siege, only to end up randomly swept away and into some unknown part of the Woods. His sense of direction had been greatly impeded by the local fauna's decision to incessantly repeat a chorus of "cuckoo" at him until his options were to ( Read more... )

It had been nearly a month since Kes had woken up in the woods, which for an Ocampan was a considerable amount of time. Voyager's journey would have taken decades to make it back to the Alpha Quadrant - generations of her people could have flourished in that time. Kes herself knew she would have never seen Earth beyond the simulations on the ( Read more... )

Alec is bored.

Not that that isn't relatively easy to do, but he decided to stick around the castle tonight, and he's already considering that a bit of a mistake. The people that he's crashing with? Not really the social types. Not that Alec should really care, but they all did sell their souls to their fairy overlords. You'd think that they'd ( Read more... )

Dawn breaks through the windows of the crystal ballroom as a woman in a storm-gray mask and gray silks mounts the stairs and turns to face the crowd. Silence falls as she spreads her hands ( Read more... )

The night after the feast, after a day of being restricted to the atrium, the palace opens to its guests once again. The garden they might wander into is fashioned from various shades of colored marble and what might be purple grass (hard to tell, as the light is low and most of it is covered in snow), is marked out in four colors. Red, green, ( Read more... )

As the light fades, the collars on the cats visiting the barracks - and the collars on the wrists of those who chose to put them on - start to glow. The transition between the freezing, crumbling barracks and the opulence of a castle's interior is almost unnoticeable. One moment they're in the barracks. The next, they'll find themselves in large ( Read more... )