The Queen of Spades had handed her a midnight blue envelope with silver lettering the day before, before all the excitement of the revue, and suggested that it might be a wise decision to go over to the embassy and invite the Arcana - formally - to their ball. It had also, she pointed out, been some time since Zoe had called upon their friends - ( Read more... )

He's been so quiet. He's been so well-behaved and kept so close to the walls, the way he'd been told to. Really, for the longest stretch of time, the Tower had been essentially a piece of the landscape. An architectural element ( Read more... )

No, for once, Johnny may be seen without his fiddle. Instead, he's having dinner down in Town and since it was such a nice evening, he's picked his meal up from the restaurant and carried it out to a nearby picnic table on the Green. He might, possibly, have gotten enough for two, just in case someone stopped by or you know, so he could wrap it up ( Read more... )

There’s a woman coming up the path from Outside. You’d be hard-pressed to guess in which direction from Outside she came from, not that that anyone has ever bothered to find that out about new arrivals to the Deck. The Deck is for secrets, after all. It tends to be a last resort ( Read more... )