The house elves were arranging presents under the tree, well, what can fit anyway. Some of the bigger and more mobile things were placed nearby. Each gift has a pretty tag saying who it's for.

And where was the dog that arranged all this?

Er...he's sleeping on the table. Lots of yummy treats will do that to you.

[[OOC: Secret Santa gifts are ( Read more... )

He knew better than to have gone outside without a coat, but he didn't do it cause it would get in the way of the war game. (And boy was that a fiasco.) Not to mention he was around Nathan, who had caught something before that ( Read more... )

((Jasper, Valentine, and Hook mentions were approved by their players. =) ))It was time for Part 2 of Baron Vladimir Harkonnen's class on Muggle Warfare. Perhaps slightly overdue, as snow had settled over the grounds, but, he hadn't been willing to hold the event while the infant-sun monstrosity still lingered in the sky. But now, it was gone, and ( Read more... )

Evan felt his legs getting heavier, just now.

It was really weird how he suddenly really hungover. Or just injured as all hell.

Oh, shit...here it co -- As fast as he could, Evan ducked around a corner and checked to see if it was deserted. Finding no one at the moment, he sunk to the floor, allowing the seizure to roll over him, knowing ( Read more... )

There had been only the most obscure and private of warnings. There were beings who could have predicted the event, with runes or through oracular visions, or by whatever arcane powers they brought with them to Hogwarts -- whatever powers had not fallen prey to the castle's unpredictable field of interference. But how might they have prevented it ( Read more... )

A jackal knew its territory and kept watch over it to make sure others did not invade it. It wasn't anything conscious. It was a part of their nature to be territorial. They also preferred the edges between light and dark ( Read more... )

 ((You want classic characters, you got it. Also, I'm aware that the pic is of a modern version of the guy.))

Mercutio sort of spaced out in the sorting room, admiring everything.

"Such gleeful creations; such would be touched by the very hand of God himself, were this not but a mortal design!" ...Right. The man picked up one of the application forms ( Read more... )

A disheveled, slime-slicked girl straggled into the Hufflepuff common room. The green sheen on her skin made her appear as though someone had indiscriminately smeared aloe vera gel over her entire body -- the dermaplastic dress included. Her bleached mane of hair was thick and clotted with the stuff. Her bare feet had stopped leaving gelid ( Read more... )

((this is Anita Blake from much earlier in the book series than the originally app’ed character. There's no stable of her boytoys and her character's not wildly oversexed. She’s a vampire executioner, she raises zombies for a living and she gets cranky without her coffee.))

Mmf. I was warm, comfortable and still very asleep. I have absolutely no ( Read more... )