It has been too long a time since Morgoth fed upon the fear of the Mansion Dwellers. He feels His power diminishing because of it, or perhaps it is that He needs it to feel alive ( Read more... )

The Open University (which, Paul muses sometimes, should probably renamed Mansion Education Institute) is entering its last week of classes before the winter break ( Read more... )

For the past several weeks, folks going into the basement might have noticed a few odd-looking buckets in one cool, dark, dry corner, and a tall guy checking on them every day, with the attention of a surgeon with a critical patient ( Read more... )

Boyle has been keeping to himself as much as possible since he's arrival here. Sticking to only going out at night and more or less haunting the less populated places of the Mansion. Old habits are hard to break after all and he's still not quite used to not being seen as less than dirt by the livebloods ( Read more... )

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The first full day of unofficial summer (Nine would object since the summer solstice hasn't happened yet) and Titus is out on the lawn, shirt open at the collar as he takes in the sun's rays. The season finds him well: no major upsets since his spill through a collapsing floor when the house fell over. He might be found with a sketchpad on his ( Read more... )

Jason steps out through his bedroom doorway into the corridor, and as soon as he feels sunlight on his face, he knows he's not in the Circus anymore. The Mansion hallway is much brighter than the Circus of the Damned's windowless, underground passages, and he has to put a furred hand up to shield his eyes while they adjust to the light. He can't ( Read more... )

It's been a long day for Hansel. Really, it's been a long few days. So he feels entirely justified, now that the coven of witches is dead, in finding a quiet corner where he can put his head down and nap for an hour or two. Especially since he's pretty sure the last time he slept was less sleeping and more blacking out after getting stabbed ( Read more... )

Fuchsia's been dealing with everything, the way she always does: completely ignoring reality.  She's managed to find herself a collection of terrible romances, and will part with them like her father did his own library, with depression and possible madness.

While she's managed to avoid anything about shades of grey (though she did make her way ( Read more... )

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