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 loves playing in the snow. The animals were easier to track and there was never any end of fun it seemed. Until it got too cold and wet anyway. Sniffing around, the big black pup tried to find his trail back to the farm. That ... was weird. Maybe it had gotten covered over by more snow. There was a lot of it and he had been distracted ( Read more... )

Clay doesn't spend much time at the Mansion. Most of his time, he's outside, in his small house in the woods, avoiding people as much as possible and hunting. There are altogether too many people here, and without Jeremy here it's harder to maintain his own cover and not, for instance, to rip out the throats of people who piss him off. While still ( Read more... )

Finally, everything's ready - and Johnny's been in a better place than he has been in a long time. It has to do with a lot of factors: there's a basement bar that he can call home, and though it's not the Underground Cafe, it's close enough - better, almost, because that's one he worked to get into shape. Now, he would love to have Marie-Jeanne ( Read more... )

The coach ride to Bath proves utterly imperilous, with no great calamity than a stop at an inn -- its taproom sadly lacking in sinisterly scarred ruffians or raddled wenches with sharp tongues, much less a kitchen with a fat, surly chef cuffing the kitchen boys. Once they resume their journey, they nearly turn back to the inn, when Mrs. Allen ( Read more... )

Anita's had a few things on her plate, as of late. That's a good thing - her own personal life is in shambles, but she's always been good at ignoring that sort of thing. In a way, it's simpler. In others, it's more complicated.

She's been having trouble feeding the ardeur - she hasn't always had a partner with whom to feed it, and that's been ( Read more... )

Leaving the Academy doesn't seem like a bad idea, after all.

Alright, he misses it, although he's not quite sure what exactly is what he misses the most. It might be the little dhampir - if little is indeed an epithet that befits her. Rose Hathaway is far from being little; on the contrary, her character, her personality, the whole of her, as she ( Read more... )

Morgoth has been observing. More to the point, he's been paying shrewd attention. The witches - by which he means the Edain and the Elda who have fought him before - are distracted. He has noticed the Merlin's increased reluctance to use magic. All this became very convenient... when he saw that suddenly there was a breach in the fabric of this ( Read more... )