He'd surrendered all of his duties in the Hearts, and his boxes had been packed - some of them already moved to the apartment his grandfather had ordered vacated in Spade Castle, near the other Novaks. For all that he had another week and some days before he and Maddox Hobbs met at the appointed place, he was pretty much not a Heart anymore. Of ( Read more... )

And so, young Teodoro Chambers had had his mother seen to by the Deck's hospital, freeing him of the heavy duty of being sole caretaker. Perhaps a few members of the hospital staff had given him knowing gazes, having heard his show, but no one directly confronted him with their suspicions ( Read more... )

Jack of Hearts ( Read more... )

It's a couple days before Christmas - less than that, really, considering most of today has flown by. Blythe needs to take a break from worrying about the status of the Deck and the inability to get supplies. There are presents for everyone waiting to be wrapped. The solution seems obvious. So anyone coming to visit the Ace of Hearts today will see ( Read more... )

Briony took the bait and the reins and ran with the Garden in the Green even though Cooper had backed her into the project. She'd been a good sport about it. The least he could do was contribute his own half to the equation. So he took charge of removing the trees felled from the Asarlai's magical explosion. Most he'd had chopped into mulch, mulch ( Read more... )

Early on, after he became a Ten, Jordan had contacted a few Hearts who lived Outside but still had ties to the Deck - or still technically lived there, but spent more time Outside than In. They weren't operatives, per se, not like the ones the Spades had or even the ones he suspected Elisha Kagan had. But they notified him of things that might be ( Read more... )

After his coronation, as it were, he wanted to have a chance to meet people, to let them see him face to face. So he'd asked the kitchens to prepare a dinner for as many hearts as could fit into the dining hall in Heart Castle. They'd set a table for the three faces, so they could all sit before everyone else, and let the people in to sit and eat ( Read more... )

Challenge won, there's still work to be done. Karin is an ambassador--an emissary on behalf of the Clubs, to the Hearts--and it's time to ambass. Well, if ambass is even the right verb form of that word. She doesn't know ( Read more... )

She's okay. It was a rough night after the Halloween Festival, so she packed her bags and headed to her father's house in Town. Not so bad, really, spending time with him, though living with her stepmom was definitely... awkward ( Read more... )

Carlos Jose was a proud scout of the Deck Scouts club. They did all kinds of neat things. Use compasses and maps to find their way, tie knots, learn how to make a fire out of stuff found in nature, set up tents, and look cute in shorts and tall socks ( Read more... )