After watching the strange magic mirror talking about all the goings on in the village, Elena realized that the unusual magic in the town had increased tenfold since she had arrived.

In fact, she was fairly certain that her presence had exacerbated The Tradition and made things worse.

Rather than try to stay and figure out why that might be ( Read more... )

( And so it came to pass... )

The kitchen staff were, very wisely, giving Jacob a wide berth tonight. He'd practically snarled at them when they complained about his changes to the specials. That combined with the dangerous glint in his dark eyes had forced them to accept his alterations ( Read more... )

A nearly silent group of tall, beautiful, almost ethereal-looking people on horseback rode down the crossroads as midnight approached. Vanessa rode with them, head down, looking sad and a bit hopeless. An eerily handsome man made sure she stayed close, leading her horse to prevent any attempt at escape ( Read more... )

Dean hadn't actually intended on planting the magic lint he'd gotten in trade for his cow -- and if he never thought those particular words in that particular order again, he'd die a happy and slightly less bewildered man -- but the garden gnome next to his trailer seemed to have invited some friends over to visit, and he'd tripped over one -- ( Read more... )

Perfectly normal lake on a perfectly normal day.

Please ignore the fowl stench given off by the sludgy green water that is bubbling and smoking in places... It's, um, alge... Yeah, yeah that's the ticket.

Alge.

The ducks have all moved to a medium sized fountain in another part of the park.

[[ooc: There is an open thread and a locked thread ( Read more... )

Willow didn't especially want to be here. One little vampire attack and her parents freaked. Well, according to them, it was a gang on PCP. Whatever ( Read more... )

Phoebe was... feeling a bit unlike her usual self ( Read more... )

Cole was feeling restless and irritable, so he made lame excuses to Phoebe and Sam and left the house, not wanting to snap at them. He also didn't want to risk disturbing the baby by way of Phoebe's empathy, since he didn't know if the baby would tap into that as well. And he especially didn't them to see how his skin had been rippling and ( Read more... )

Vanessa had been lying on her bed, floating in her stars - the elvish version of 'sleep' - when she had become aware of presences in her room. She was so tired of that constant sense of being watched that she'd been experiencing all week that she almost didn't even open her eyes to see. When she did, she was surprised to see tall, beautiful, ( Read more... )