To celebrate the marriage of David Talbot and Nicolas de Lenfent, there is a small informal gathering in the tower. The happy couple are both inside with young Lilli (who has been allowed to stay up late, just this once). They would welcome friends old and new to share a drink in celebration.

Typist: So they've got married and this is the party. Tag ( Read more... )

Edward is Concerned. He's not seen Bella since she arrived, which means (in his mind) she's lying dead somewhere that he somehow hasn't looked yet. He's searched the grounds dozens of times, but hasn't seen her. It's times like these he wishes he could hear her thoughts the most. The thought, of course, had crossed his mind that perhaps she didn't ( Read more... )

There's a note displayed in a prominent location, nothing too elaborate, something small and modest written in a rather old fashioned cursive.

David Talbot is delighted to announce his engagement to Nicolas de Lenfent.For anyone who might wish to speak to David, he's sitting in a nearby chair reading a book with a smile on his face. He'd be more ( Read more... )

Jaenelle's been up all night, and finally finished in the wee hours of the morning. So now there is an enormous tree in the main room of the Mansion, decorated thus far only with lights, and with an equally enormous heap of gifts under the tree. Each gift is unlabelled until someone comes across it, upon which one of the gifts will take on the form ( Read more... )

The day is clear and cold, with a brilliant but distant sun overhead in a pale azure sky ( Read more... )

She wakes up in a bed that was not hers, is not even the one (also not hers) that she was expecting. She gets up, very cautiously, and ventures out into the hall. There is a small pistol in her hand, and she is dressed neatly but conservatively in the style of the 1950s, a cross and a scarf both around her neck. She might be twenty five, perhaps ( Read more... )

Lucivar is inside, holding a cup of what might pass for coffee somewhere and looking rather cold and a bit snowy, muttering to himself. He'd forgotten how much witches liked snow, and made the mistake of venturing outside without a shield to protect himself from the barrage of snowballs from invisible witches ( Read more... )

Feeling the need for a change of scenery, David has taken himself to one of the common rooms. He's lit the fire, and settled himself in front of the hearth. As always there are piles of books strewn around him, an ordered chaos to them that nobody would understand but himself. He's not reading them though, just staring into the flames looking a ( Read more... )

A very ancient looking book with a black cover and a gold patterning that may look like a face on it (should someone close the book to inspect it) lies open on a table in the main room of the mansion. Where it came from or how it got there is a mystery. But there it is. And in bold letters it states very clearly on the open page:

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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... )