She's a sad, pale woman and she has the look of someone far gone to illness. It doesn't help that her sudden appearance here amid the brightness of the mansion has sent her into a state of fearful agitation. Where is her family? Her home? Even the air and temperature is wrong, dreadfully wrong - where is the cold harshness of Kievan Rus' winter?! ( Read more... )

two yellow eyes in the air, down low, near your calves. two yellow eyes, and a hurrying of feet, little feet ( Read more... )

Prince Paul Maraloffski and Princess Helen Kurtzevitch have been married.

The self-styled General Jinjur has not been seen in some time, it's true. But as one of those denizens of the mansion who seems to have no trouble making her way to and from her home country, maybe she has spent the missed time there. She has her uniform still, but it is not so crisp and neat as it once looked. This does not seem to trouble her, ( Read more... )

Helen, not Vasil, is in the main room of the mansion. She has done what she can with her short hair, put on a white dress of plain style, and sits down with a piece of embroidery to wait and see what will happen. She doesn't know how the mansion will react and she is a bit nervous but she doesn't let it show. Princesses don't do that.

Denis has had some very nice company lately for which he is glad but he is curious about one thing, which he asks now:

"Are there any vampires here anymore?"

Having learned that the mortals of the mansion are not sufficiently occupied, the gentleman with the thistle-down hair has decided to provide a bit of harmless entertainment. Therefore, anyone who spends more than five minutes in one place will find himself or herself a child ( Read more... )

A girl of about seventeen crawled out of the bushes. She was wearing a somewhat coarse and dirty shift, and was, herself, a bit disheveled, but for all that was quite handsome indeed. Once out of the bush, she looked around, and found herself not at all where she was expecting to be. So, after a short moment of surprise, she shrugged to herself ( Read more... )

Ganymede can be found sitting on the floor in the mansion. Having found some scissors in the plot hole, he is now contemplating a lock of his hair, scissors poised, but unmoving (Rosalind knows that some length, of course, is fashionable, but she fears for her hair growing too long, and making her look too girlish. She's trying to ignore the fact ( Read more... )

As everyone knows, tea is sort of the staple of life around the Mansion. And some ruthless being has gone right to the source. Most of the tea is still in its neat little boxes, not conveniently laid out, because we all know how people adapt (and gods don't play fair), but anyone desiring their breakfast beverage of choice may find it does a little ( Read more... )