Very suddenly in the middle of the common room there is a flash of bright light followed by a poofing sound and a puff of pink smoke. When it clears a peculiar-looking figure can be seen ( Read more... )

He arrives much the way he went out, at least from his perspective. Light, burning, pain. Still he doesn't cry out and as the effects begin to wear off and his vision clears finds himself not exactly where he expected. The only telling sign of what he's just endured is a scorched hole in his shirt and a large burn on his chest, remnants of the ( Read more... )

Eeyore would not call himself Adventurous. He thought the Expotition to the North Pole was a foolish notion, but that had proved less silly than he expected (except for Roo falling into the stream and Not Grabbing Onto Eeyore's Tail when he had the kindness to dip it into the water and got it All Numb). Most of the time, he's trudging through the ( Read more... )

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Meru was finally home after participating in what was basically the second Dragon Campaign. There may not always be peace, but she reasoned, at least things were better now. The world was safe, and slowly humans and Winglies might be able to integrate peacefully, one step at a time.

She hoped a good step could be taken right now. Standing in the ( Read more... )

The Doctor is Thinking.

Inside, at the moment, though he spent most of last night fighting with the TARDIS, trying to get her working again, even if he knew intellectually it was extremely unlikely that he would succeed. (And he didn't.) But now he knows that his companions are out there somewhere - Donna's out there somewhere - and while this ( Read more... )

Out in the clearing by the lake, there walks a lone knight. For those who do not know Sir Tristan de Lyonesse, a prince of Cornwall and Britanny, he looks, very likely, like a lone ranger.

His heart has been heavy, burdened by the knowledge of his renewed solitude, but the magic nature of the Manse has made his own rationalizations easier to accept ( Read more... )

Hisoka hears the click of a boot heel on cement, and becomes aware that the feet are his own. His red-gold hair ruffles in the moving air, and moisture beads on it. A fine mist of icy rain is wafting over the terrace where he stands. He is dressed in a naval uniform of the late 1890s or early 1900s, a brass-buttoned jacket belted over well- ( Read more... )

Titus never really cared much for books, yet since his arrival at the Mansion, he's been spending more time in the Library, poring through the volumes there, particularly during periods of rough weather ( Read more... )

To be honest, it was an exhausting day.

Layla Williams might have an apparently inexhaustible energy burning within her, but even sidekicks need their sleep.

So after getting back home (after school, after training) and speaking to Will on the phone - no roof? someone might ask - well yes, you see, he's been caught in a family reunion of the sorts ( Read more... )