Gyula Kadar had come to America to live with the woman he met in collage and married just after, he had left his family and friends behind and isolated himself in the strange new country just to be with her. He had been happy, he wrote home often to his cousins and the aunt who had raised him since his parents death, his parents had been well off ( Read more... )

Timeline: Random, noncanon ( Read more... )

The strange land he had found himself in for all those months had been so slow as of late, he had such good...and such bad memories of it. Like being able to speak to Esther and apologize and meeting the empress...which still bothered him that Esther had been on friendly terms with her before he had ever seen her face. Silly childish things that ( Read more... )

Only Noelle had known of what happened a fateful day she decided to live up to her nunly duties retired or not. Having found Dietrich half dead in the wreakage of the battle between the Vatican and RosenKreuz she found the battered and beaten body of the smiling devil child who had stood beside the magician who had tried to crush her to death with ( Read more... )

[It's a perfectly lovely day in Wonderland, whether you're fresh from a fall face-first down a rabbit hole, out in the garden admiring your painted roses, or being chased through the woods by a furious bandersnatch ( Read more... )

[Wherever you were, before, YOU IN SPACE NOW, YO.

Er. Or, somewhere inside this bustling space station, at any rate. It's way crowded, and definitely not the high-end model from the nice money side of the universal train tracks - most everywhere you go (outside the pristine central hub shop with all the creature comforts of home for totally ( Read more... )

Caterina was not having the most wonderful of days. Abel was lounging about the front desk being useless as anything aside from an overgrown decoration, nosedeep into some trashy romance. And let us not speak of the creeps in the basement....Giving into impulse, she flipped all the light switches as she walked by, heading back to her office, ( Read more... )

[It's a bright and sunny and beautiful world that greets you as you open your eyes. Birds are chirping everywhere, trees rustle in the calm breeze, and somewhere faraway, you might even hear the sound of excited voices calling back and forth. You can't quite make sense of what they're saying, but it's a cheerful sound. Everything here seems ( Read more... )

[The room is pitch black, and the dank air smells of wet stone and moss. There's a little bit of light, here and there, thick motes of dust shining where they sift through, out of the darkness. Water drips slowly from somewhere deep in the shadows, drowning out the soft, almost inaudible echo of steady sobs from somewhere much deeper ( Read more... )

[Shopping really did make everything better. Kate had fun using one of the lovely automa dolls to grab clothes for Caterina to try. She even found a way to change it to carry her voice. It made them speaking to her in the store a little less strange she hoped.]

I think a light blue would look lovely on you Lady Caterina!  [She had the doll pick up a ( Read more... )