The Barge has been more quiet lately. It feels like the calm before the storm, like everyone is waiting for something. Perhaps they know something that I don't. [There's a small, demeaning laugh.I do wonder: Has anyone noticed the odd arrivals this month? Normally they come around the second and third weeks of the month. Now they come later. Sexby ( Read more... )

Cissie King-Jones is in a coma. Tim Drake will be responsible for her inmate.

[Private to Martha]
Will you check on her? To ensure it's a Barge coma?

[Private to Molly]
She's staying in her room. If you want to see her, ask.

[Private to Tim]
I trust you to look after Isaac. [Pause.] I'm not taking her to the infirmary. I'll stay with her. [ ( Read more... )

Most historians have agreed that it was the Egyptians, and those of Mesopotamia, who first invented the watch. 1500 BC. BC. They used flowing water to estimate time mechanically. Accurate "clocks" weren't created until nearly 1530 AD, by Italian monks. To know when to hold sermons and prayers. It played a sound, featuring no hands and merely ( Read more... )

You act like people are acting strangely. They all seem practically the same to me.. overreacting, dramatic. Inmates and wardens alike. You're all on a witch hunt and, meanwhile, the Admiral is winning as you play into his game.

[Private to Tim]
Are you acting as ridiculous as the rest of them?

[Private to Cissie]
I want you to leave me.

[ ( Read more... )

There's always a time when lines begin to blur. Reality, fiction. Want, need. Past, future. Friendship, love. What no one bothers to tell you is that it never gets easier. It stays the same ridiculous goal time and time again. To find something that doesn't exist. [A pause.] Everyone isn't striving for perfection, they're striving for average. ( Read more... )

There's something about a higher calling that most people can't ignore. To find peace, to be special. Once the survival instinct is gone, anything is possible. It also makes it harder to find a reason for most people to live. People who feel loved have a better chance of surviving severe burns, recovering from surgery. So do people who have ( Read more... )

[Private to Tim]
I feel uneasy.

[Private to Santa]
( Tim, Dick, Isaac, Cissie, Stephanie, Judas, Claire, Crane, Slade )

I'm surprised there's not more of an uproar, with everything that happened. Or maybe it's only on the Warden Filter.

[Private to Tim]
I have a favor to ask. Also, I borrowed a pen. [Just to annoy you.] I'll return it later today.

[Private to Stephanie]
Are you feeling any better?

[Private to Cissie]
Your room tonight?

[Private to Tim]
Who have you asked about me? I assume Stephanie, warning her. Maybe Cissie, Claire, Isaac. Slade. Eddie, Crane. Who else? Why?

[Private to Cissie, Stephanie, Slade, Eddie, Claire, and Adam separately]
Did Tim ask you about me?

[Private to Elle]
If I said I needed you to lie for me, to my warden, would you?

Bishop takes the Knight. Check.

( Private messages to: Judas, Cissie, Tim, Slade, The Doctor (Five), and Isaac )