Origami is therapeutic, almost meditative, and really just the thing when one is doing their best to reign in a potential panic attack. Something that she really can't afford to be having right now, all things considered.

She's willing to take requests, of course, though frogs have always been her favourite.

Dafydd is retired from spying, circulate the rumors. He's happy to let that rumor spread while at the same time spending the evening at home, tweaking the system he's using to keep passing information to Elisha. Rebeckah in Inventory is quick and sharp and came up with a brilliant system of filling out inventory forms in code, and passive ( Read more... )

So, there had been a plan - not a brilliant plan, admittedly, but even the best of plans had a way of falling apart at the worst possible moment ( Read more... )

Fun fact: typing when your wrist is in a cast is like typing like the drinking bird. Filling out forms by hand sort of works, but not really, since some ass Four broke the wrist on her dominant hand. They might be more legible, frankly, if she just had Callisto fill them out for her ( Read more... )

Twenty-four years ago today a certain Butler breathed his first. Katya is not knowing why Declan seems obsessed with fours, but she knows the fact that it is his twenty-fourth must make it significant to him. And because it is important to Chives, it is important to her. And not just to her, she thinks as she oversees the arranging of Spade Castle ( Read more... )

5AM and Cooper's on his second cup of coffee and already has the day's baking out of the way ( Read more... )

No, your eyes do not deceive. There is, indeed, a familiar face in the Club kitchens getting carefully sifting flour and checking her recipe book - all the while quietly muttering to herself in something that may be German and may be French ( Read more... )

After her discussion with Katya, Zoe decided something needed to be done for Chives' birthday. The question, of course, was what, and the answer that came quickly enough was baking. He'd been helping her learn how in a supplement to her more...experimental efforts with Sophie. Cake was traditional, cupcakes were neater, so that was the obvious ( Read more... )

Technically, he's not supposed to have them anymore, but old habits die hard, and old weapons are difficult to part with, so: Elisha still has his guns. He has fifteen of them, specifically, all of which live hidden away in his rooms at Club Castle, and are mostly pulled out for maintenance and to keep sharp. At the moment, four of them are the ( Read more... )

Isaac's been a touch glum lately-- but fear not! Shiny things abound in Diamond Castle! All of the shinies with shiny shines and shinyshinyshiny...

All right, in truth he's searching through his well-loved Diamond antiques on a mission from his Jack to find a possible Arcana relic, but seriously. All them shinies. Do approach, he's blissful right ( Read more... )