The nice thing about being organized meant that, once the usual things were squared away--ordering new books, putting away the newest deliveries, making sure Dark Nation hadn't murdered a dust bunny and eaten half of it, leaving behind a carcass he'd have to clean up--Rufus could go back to his other work ( Read more... )

It was amazing, really, how much there was to do after missing a week, but Rufus didn't mind. He preferred being busy, even if fussing over his store wasn't the most important thing he was juggling ( Read more... )

Given that he was the owner, as far as he could tell, of Book Haven and the only employee besides, Rufus doubted there was anyone on or off the island who'd give a damn about him arbitrarily changing his shift to Mondays instead of Fridays ( Read more... )

It was a quiet day at the book store ( Read more... )

Rufus had… fled the picnic as soon as he possibly could ( Read more... )

Rufus was smiling slightly as he came into work for the first time in, oh, ages. Some of his people back home had confirmed a few things that left him in a good mood.

Dark Nation bolted off to sniff at things, confused by the scent of cookies that was everywhere today, while Rufus busied himself with looking at the class options for the next ( Read more... )

Everything was grey these days. Grey, or that muddy red-brown color that humans left behind when their bodies were damaged, but in the fog, the always, always fog, even that seemed grey, or black. Dirty. Earth was dirty. Dirtier now than it had been, and smaller, just one island apart from the rest, but this was the Earth that was most prevalent in ( Read more... )

Well, their Fandom was phasing with a new one and while Kathy couldn't remember how long it would take before theirs overtook this one and destroyed it nor how many times this had already happened in the past (though the flickers were lingering longer now than they'd been this morning, so odds were high the process was a quick one), she knew to ( Read more... )

He was late to work but, then, who cared? Certainly not he. Rufus swanned in hours later than he should have but the store was open now and wasn't that the important part ( Read more... )

Perhaps it was because he was still mildly irritated by the seeming lack of purpose to yesterday's Ethic's class, but Rufus actually bothered to show up for work today, since it was one of a few things that he'd taken a step back for ( Read more... )