There were quite a few people who lived in town who seemed to want to go to Bali, oddly enough. Sam wasn't totally sure what that was about until she looked up the school vacation schedule, which shed light on some things ( Read more... )

The kitchen staff spent the first half of the day staring at Sheba. She checked her hair seven times, but couldn't find whatever they might have put in it. When she finally started to check for "kick me" signs, the cook narrowed his eyes at her ( Read more... )

Why did Jaina keep coming back to this town again? Right, the people ( Read more... )

It was business as usual over at Sam's office, except that the espresso machine was emitting a low clickety-clack sound that only stopped whenever Sam got up to try to fix the problem.

"I know you're doing this on purpose," she told the machine severely after the fourth or fifth time she examined it and found absolutely nothing wrong. "And that's ( Read more... )

When Kitty had planned this party she'd just figured that it'd be a good way for people to mingle, especially since there were new people on the island now. She hadn't thought that there'd be powers weirdness going on, though really, there were probably a few people who could use a drink and/or assurances this would be back to normal in the ( Read more... )

Sam had a decent amount of work to do today, but first, she was determined to set up the espresso machine she'd finally given in and bought for the office. There were a few reasons for that. She liked espresso and was in dire need of caffeine today, first of all. But more importantly, she thought that teenagers in town might find an espresso ( Read more... )

Sam was a pushover. She knew this and so did most everyone who knew her well. But rarely had this been made more clear through a single experience than it had as a result of the events of this morning: specifically, her spontaneous adoption of a small dog with floppy ears and huge, adorable eyes ( Read more... )

Sam had woken up this morning with the sudden desire to play her new strategy game in the park, but the cold had thwarted her rather quickly.

However, the Perk made a decent substitute, and it offered coffee. Sam sucked down a caramel macchiatto as she sized up the board, slowly and precisely sizing up her options one move at a time ( Read more... )

By now, Sam had gotten pretty good at making all the local modifications and precautions that one needed to make for visitors' weekends when portal traffic to the Fandom area was expected to be high. Since a new crop of students and teachers was due to arrive on Saturday - though not, she expected, in anywhere near the numbers that the island saw ( Read more... )

Right, so Kitty had no idea what had happened today, but she'd gotten to hit things and hopefully never had to hear Handsome Jack's voice again so she was going to call it a success ( Read more... )