River was barbecuing an apple. She looked sullen and muttering to herself, wishing cabin time was over and she could go back to her own room, where there was no need to make an effort to keep people out of her mind. The cabins were noisy - although less so now since a certain darkhaired girl turned into a bird. There was also that incident that had ( Read more... )

The more she thought about it, the more Adah realized that, while she mourned the loss of her privacy, she really rather liked the cabins. She kept to herself enough that privacy was never really an issue; it came rather naturally around her. Everything was on the same level, which made going from one place to another a bit easier. And then ( Read more... )

Dawn was trying very hard not to resent the cabins for taking away two weeks of her last few weeks living with Sam, but it wasn't working as well as she wanted it to. To distract herself (and because she had to do it if she expected to sleep anyway), Dawn was outside the cabin, drawing protective sigils on the outside of the window sills near her ( Read more... )