The road to recovery is fraught with perils mostly the result of the man doing the recovering being a lousy patient. 'Uncooperative' is a kind word for his irritable attitude, and one can only assume that either the attending physician is being promised vast sums of money or a masochist. A distant third is the possibility of being just precisely ( Read more... )

After the initial time spent drifting in and out of consciousness as the antidote began moving through his blood-stream, Martel spends a lot of time sincerely wishing he was still in that state over constantly bursting the stitches in his back when he's messily ill into the tin bucket by the bed. Nitral's personal physician stays with him through ( Read more... )

Several weeks ago.

For some time now, Martel's been steadfastly ignoring the knowledge wallowing in the back of his mind, and as much as he knows he can't continue ignoring it forever he'd really like to try. Relegated to the same place as 'Sparhawk used the word reconcile without spitting on it', his understanding of what he's been told lies not ( Read more... )

After Henry and Hasi are gone following Ethina to their guestrooms, Martel speaks with Ewar briefly before meeting Langler at the library. No one (particularly Langler himself) is entirely sure why he's found himself more and more called upon personally - but nevertheless, there he is and he does as he's bid without complaining or questioning. The ( Read more... )

The house is taking some getting used to; it's one thing to drop in and out of universes like this (still a strange thought in and of itself), but it's quite another to have his name signed on a lease and a home full of his belongings. It is a home, too, albeit not the only one they share. It'd be an exercise in pointlessness if it weren't, and ( Read more... )

After an...interesting encounter, it's dark where Martel is and late in Valdis, too. Two days, and he should go home; he will, soon. He has somewhere else to stop before he does, though, and after he starts to walk away from the fire he changes course to a place in the nexus that knows him from before he had the castle ( Read more... )

The lady of the house is expected home on the eighth, a full month after leaving, and since his schedule permits (it could as easily be a coincidence as something engineered, and it's a toss up as to whether Martel or Ewar would've done the engineering), Martel is there to meet her when she arrives home ( Read more... )

Between the things that keep Martel and Candice respectively quite busy, sometimes it takes him a while to corner her to talk (he can corner her really quickly for...other things), to appraise her of what he's been acquiring and generally to do something other than make a nuisance of himself ( Read more... )

Sunday afternoon finds Martel ... working, as surprises probably no one. Idle hands and the devil's work, after all. He's in the library, at least, rather than shut away in his warded work rooms or the tower study. It makes him considerably easier to find, if preoccupied when you get to him ( Read more... )

[00:46] * Martel is in his study - settled at the top of his tower, where he can see most everything from, and where he's /really/ settled, looking as though he's been there for years and may or may not intend to winter there, too ( Read more... )