Qi has not been able to LJ so...

There is a thread here with Iollan and Chives.

And a post here by Eileen.

She didn't sleep well last night, which is becoming something of a beginning-of-the-year habit for her. This year, though, the insomnia has little to do with being afraid that she's going to fail a challenge - the challenge, really, that made her a Spade - and more to do with...well. With the Deck. With what it's doing right now that feels, to her ( Read more... )

She could be concerned about the constant but inconsistent rumblings affecting her snakes. Probably is, actually. But it's not foremost in her mind, going by the silly smile on her face or the bright glimmer in her eyes. She's never particularly gloomy, but this level of cheer isn't typical ( Read more... )

Well. Having dinner and wine with Ms. Briony Williams wasn't one of the ways he typically spent an evening but it had been...not pleasant, really. But if he had to choose someone with whom to sit down to dinner with, at least Briony tended to remain interestingSo here he is, late in the evening, walking home from the Club district in Town. Feel ( Read more... )

New Year's Day was the same every year, really. For one night everyone seemed to have forgotten their limits when it came to drinking the night before and the Castle stirred late in the morning, groggy and hung over ( Read more... )

One of the benefits of living with Victor for the better part of a year was learning the very fine art of not talking to people. Of course, given that Zoe usually did talk to people - a lot of them, and frequently - it had involved a little more maneuvering on her part. But worth it, in the end, after the conversation she'd had with the elderly ( Read more... )

It was a couple of days after Christmas. Michael was probably beyond 'fashionably late' and into 'the plane has left without you, you ungrateful bastard' territory.

And yet, there are gifts. Gifts for In-Su, Amy, Zoe, Chives, Victor, Katya, Clive, Julien, Jordan, Tunde, Cadogan, Sade and Lasse. Gifts that either Chives delivers, if you happen to ( Read more... )

Hadyn's dislocated shoulder they day before hadn't been the first time something like that had happened - one memorable occasion when Hadyn had been thirteen and was getting back at Jordan for probably being horrible, Jordan had ended up with a cracked rib - but it had been a while since their sparring had gotten that rough. And while Jordan hadn't ( Read more... )

Ethan didn't mind buying gifts for his "extended family", but wrapping 'em was a chore better left to the patient. After six rolls of paper, two boxes of tape and a lot of swearing and shots of Wild Turkey, he was finally finishedLeaving them in places their intended recipients would discover while remaining undetected wasn't all that difficult ( Read more... )

Jack of Spades. That's going to take some getting used to. Maybe it was slightly less demeaning than being called a number, even though he's had plenty of time to get used to that. But he has a feeling that they'll change his name from Michael to Jack whether he likes it or not ( Read more... )