It's been two weeks. Jack knows because Jack's been counting. On the pillars of his bed, not too far from the ballroom, he started making a notch every night. Some were crooked, he has to admit. Anything involving a knife, that happens where you're solidly drunk, is bound to be a problem ( Read more... )

The jingle of chain-mail and the hard crunch of boots over dirt road precedes the good Count down the path in the forest. This is a Sphere he'd yet to see and it was interesting so far. Quiet, calm, hint of power ( Read more... )

Daniel ... well, Daniel is seven, and tends to get easily distracted (comes from being seven and also a puppy still), so even though he knows he has an important job to do, he sometimes forgets and doesn't think about it ( Read more... )

The Mansion is not the same place since the earthquake: people have vanished, including some who were involved with the Shadow Angels and its companion, the Hall Watch. And some have simply taken leave from it for various personal reasons. It's thinned the ranks and new members will be needed to fill the breaches. This worries Tsuzuki, especially ( Read more... )

That all could have gone better ( Read more... )

It all happened so fast.

( This bit is spoilerific )

It's been a few days since everything broke loose. Mansion dwellers counted their dead and their disappeared, mourned as they could, healed who could be healed, and treasures of creativity were found to shield everyone from the cold northern winds that blew over the grounds ever since the earth shook ( 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... )

     It's been a shockingly quick nine months since Brett turned up on the Mansion lawn.  In that time he's been mostly floating in a figurative limbo, unwilling to commit to living here, unable to break away from it.  He misses his pack, he misses his friends, he misses his mother and he misses his girlfriend - he wonders if they miss him, if they ( Read more... )

Daniel has been settling in fairly well all things considered. He's been very good and hasn't gotten caught even once! The snow is going away, leaving green and warmth in it's wake and Shadow/Daniel has found hours of entertainment in chasing butterflies and other bugs (and the occasional frog too!) around the lake. He's remembered his promises to ( Read more... )