The news spread quickly. It's not like a building -and what a building- comes down and people go about their usual business anyway.

But it was that building.

In this place. The only reason Noel hadn't heard hushed comments about card castles coming down was probably because the townsfolk were too worried some terrorizing Arcana would loom over ( Read more... )

Today, the door of Avery's apartment at Diamond Castle is wide open, and if you peek inside, you'll see her at the kitchen counter, an apron tied over her jeans and her hair in a high ponytail. And there's an interesting mix of scents. First is the roast chicken, a simple recipe but a classic, and the mustard and the thyme are mingling in the air. ( Read more... )

The week-long Deck event draws to a close, culminating in the Midsummer Night's Dream Ball sponsored by the Spades. Liveried footmen greet party goers, who begin to trickle in after sunset, and usher them into the winding wisteria arbor draped in fairy lights. Music of unseen fountains sings to them as they stroll through the arbor until at last ( Read more... )

The Joker is ovbiously doing card tricks on her own nice booth. A booth without a clear sign, but a booth none the less. Card booth? To self-referencing. Trick Booth? Not quite what she has going on there. Joker booth? Most likely prone to scare everyone ( Read more... )

I'm expecting spectacular aim from you.

Somehow. Somehow she's been talked into the dunking booth. Damn you, Katya. So, being the really good sport that she is, she's sitting on the platform in a nice swimsuit giving the Glare of Not Quite Death (it's supposed to be fun, after all) to everyone taking a turn ( Read more... )

Everybody has to like kisses, right?

Just manning the Harvest Festival kissing booth alongside her brother. Come on, people, you know you can't resist the combined might of two McCartneys smiling at you hopefully.

It's that time again. Yes, Julien can be found out on the practice field throwing knives at targets.

He doesn't miss.

Anyone that knew -or thought that knew- the Black Joker, Noel, had one thing clear; if there was something the girl enforced beyond all things was freedom.

So when one sees Noel cruising over the buildings, roads and streets and streetlights nothing but a passing thought to her, you gotta marvel at the fact that yes, that's called free runningA ( Read more... )

For the moment, Gustave is alone, sitting at a sidewalk cafe table, the remains of a pastry on a plate pushed off to the side and half a coffee finished.

The other particular thing he has with him is an obviously worn deck of tarot cards that he's idly thumbing through ( Read more... )

There's been far too much to take in in the last seven days. The death of the Spade Jack, the sabbatical taken by the Heart Jack, Avery's accident. The Deck was literally down three of its four Jacks, and he and Rachel had to make a decision on what to do about their own, just as David and Katya needed to replace Sieben, and Ceiro and Judith would ( Read more... )