[A zombie attack on Christmas, how delightful. Frodo had already been in a bit of a funk about the fact that this is the second Yule (for him, as it was early spring in his world when he left) that he's spent away from home. And now this ( Read more... )

[ Thanks to Laharl, Chii is out and approaching various people. The question is always the same, too. Full of excitement and with a big smile.]

Could you help me practice, please? Laharl said that he'll teach me more things, if I practice punching with people.

[This may not have been the way he expected her to go out and 'practice' with others.]

[It is night as Artanis emerges into the city; of course, the nights in Veles are long and the days short, but to one who knows only night this would be a comfort were she to know of it. Though the snowfall has stopped, what remains still forms snowy banks against the shadowy outlines of buildings, crisp and white save, now, for the faintest of ( Read more... )

[Three days is far too long to spend in the company of strange, suspicious-looking priests who keep asking questions and looking at him sideways, like they know more than they're letting on. Even a blizzard isn't enough to stop Frodo from getting out of the Temple as fast as he can ( Read more... )