Whereas the forest behind them had an air of passive tranquility, what they stepped into held the exact opposite.  They're met by a riotous splash of sunlight so bright that Midna shrinks into the hood of her cloak to keep it away.  Brilliant orchards bearing strange blue fruit encircle the both of them.  Grazing fields off in the distance are ( Read more... )

A new time rising up on us.

He slipped away while they were fighting, while the mad pirate shot at them. He was injured. Slow. Exhausted. Bringing them down. Burdening them. He was sure of it. Better to leave. Better to hide. Nobody else to slow down with his pain and his tired.

It's all going to shit.

Another cycle end and another cycle begun.

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She knows that they were going in the right direction. She’s certain of it. But, no matter how many times she tells herself that, all this time spent walking has yet to turn up any defense attorneys, men of dubious fashion sense, or lizard men of questionable sanity ( Read more... )

Novak knows that perhaps peeling away from those other guys was probably a really bad idea, and that you should always stick together in groups, but right now he's too grumpy to listen to logic. The bear kebabs did not fill him. As a matter of fact, he's even hungrier than ever and pissed off. He does not want to spend time around Hastur and ( Read more... )

It's getting chilly.
And there are bears. Sure, one of those bears is lying busted and beheaded on the ground over there, but that's an awfully huge corpse and it doubtless had relatives ( Read more... )

There isn't really a sun in the Nexus, so we can't say it's nearing sunset when things start to happen. But it's around the time sunset would be, when the music starts to fade, all the musicians beginning to pack up except for a swing band on the stage near the center of the party.

Then, even they fall silent after one last song, and a sign ( Read more... )