Maledisant thinks the Mansion is a very boring place. Nothing much happens and the people are insufferable. She's starting to suspect that some of the residents spend their time intentionally coming up with new ways to be annoying. She's not entirely sure she can blame them. The Mansion is a very dull place, after all, and it's not easy for ( Read more... )

Alice has been quiet these past few months. She remembers she came to the Mansion when it was winter (although summer back home), and now that it's getting colder, she's thinking back, looking at the past, recalling ( Read more... )

It's a very average day at the Mansion, and Maledisant is bored. She's wandering the halls, looking for someone who might entertain her, but what she finds is far more entertaining than an unsuspecting Mansion resident ( Read more... )

There have been rumors about an event - a tourney, wherein men would fight to show their greatest might, and ladies would cheer them, and grant them their favour if they did well ( Read more... )

It's Valentine's Day, one of the most clever holidays that the landen have invented, and being the great lover that he once was, Saetan finds it endearing. Really! And given the dire things that have happened in the recent past, the lovable old geezer has been rather bereft lately. Still, he's not about to brood on the past: his family may have ( Read more... )

It has taken time for this to happen, for the Dark Lord to gather it all, his influence of that which is not Arda but close enough to it, that which he hates about all else for the light of it remains a beacon ( Read more... )

In one quiet corner of the library (not the one where he usually studies with Morgana, but another), Steerpike can be found classifying books. After one particular ordeal he went through while hunting down a grimorium of minimal importance, it seems the kitchen rat turned student is giving in to a destiny he doesn't quite know about.

In other words ( Read more... )

Morgana does not understand.

She does not understand how her life has changed so drastically in the past few days.  She does not understand why everyone around her is falling asleep.  She does not understand why she is still standing.

She does not understand what any of this has to do with the pact she made with Morgause.  She does understand ( Read more... )

Katniss has grown used to life at the Mansion now, and rather enjoys it. She feels safe here--it's not like home, nor does it have the dangers of the Capitol. It feels comfortable, familiar ( Read more... )

Riku has fond memories of Setsuban or the Lunar New Year, and given the number of Chinese immigrants in their neighborhood, his dad had offered a double celebration at Omoro. And so, as part of continuing to give back to the Mansion and the people in it, he's spent the past day cooking up a buffet of Asian delicacies, including Chinese dumplings ( Read more... )