After several weeks of reading and studying, Childermass is ready to try something. He made a small model of Lynette's spaceship, and took it out to the gardens. There, he attempted to enchant it to send it through time, as well as space ( Read more... )

Jonathan Strange has been neglecting his wife--burying his head in tomes on weather patterns and strange magics, letting time slowly slip past him. He has forgotten that he has made a bargain with a fairy, and that eternal darkness is the consequence for shirking it ( Read more... )

 Khardeen has found that things around here have gotten altogether too serious, something that is certainly not all right by him. After a bit of thought, he attached the spell in question to objects rather than food, which was rather more difficult, but all too many, himself included, have learned to avoid food laying around.

So, the first, set on ( Read more... )

Nita is sitting cross-legged on the floor of the main room, with her book open in front of her, deep in concentration ( Read more... )

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His beloved summer is coming to an end, and Baldr is making the most of it while he can. Anyone who enters the downstairs rooms of the mansion will find that the walls have rolled up like petticoats, leaving the roof and upper stories to be supported by vines and trellises instead. Most everything looks alive, or at least prettily fake, with ( Read more... )

He is small and slender, built like an acrobat or a tumbler. His body is covered in scars and he walks with a slight limp, making him look a bit older than his sixteen years. His eyes are ringed with kohl and he wears nothing more than a bright blue kilt and a leather belt but his arms and legs are covered in gold bangles and jeweled bracelets. His ( Read more... )

Gyuri knows he shouldn't be bothering these people so soon after arriving here but he can't help it anymore. He keeps dreaming of the camps, particularly the night they hung the escapees. He never sees anything in those dreams, he just hears the rabbi standing next to him start saying Kaddish with one prisoner after another picking it up until the ( Read more... )

*Morgan isn't normally one to do anything that might be remotely productive for anyone else, but, well, she's been bored. And so she's sitting the main room of the Mansion and has, laid out in front of her, a large number of small, oddly shaped glass bottles, each containing different potions. She's not selling them - oh, of course not - but she ( Read more... )

So, if anyone's looked out the windows recently, they should have noticed one particular thing. There's snow on the ground -- and in the air as well, actually. It's even inside, and it's showing no signs of melting. In the main room a Christmas tree is set up -- all in proper wizarding form, with fairies and garlands of all sorts. And then, in ( Read more... )