The door opens into the captain's cabin of the Black Pearl and Barbossa, a wry little smirk on his face, strides in with the nonchalance of someone who's not a stranger to passing between worlds.

He looks around and nods once, satisfied, then heads towards the bar. As much as he loves the Pearl, sometimes a man needs a quiet place to think and ( Read more... )

Oblivious to the drama unfolding within, Teja is in the forge, folding steel.

The doors are wide open, the fire roaring lustily, the cats are lying about outside washing their paws, and Teja is singing while he is hammering away.-

Any friend or stranger, customer or gawker, or newly hired helper or newly accepted student, will be welcome.-

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Demeter had entered Milliways in a very good mood, she has plans and Felix is smiling. Somehow she ended up in the corner with the karaoke machine and its rather compelling.

Apparently even a goddess can't bargain her way out of it and soon she's singing with a look of horror and then laughter as she just enjoys the vulgarity of the song,

"I ( Read more... )

Teja had decided to stand drinks for all comers to celebrate Ramon Salazar's arrest, and the successful solving of his own murder case. So when the Bar gives him one of the tell-tale yellow napkins, he consults the drinks book for drinks with names he likes. Those are amazingly precise and fitting; but in the end, Teja decides against the names: - ( Read more... )

Connor Temple thought he was walking into one of the laboratories at the Home Office. Now that he's on Professor Cutter's team, he has important work to do. Without him and his database of prehistoric creatures, the Anomaly Project wouldn't be the same ( Read more... )

[Out of Milliways: The hardest words in the English language? Any words that have to be said to an audience.The door slides open, and Gordon steps through. He's made his speech and it's starting to sink in just how many people would have heard it. Not that it didn't go well, you understand, but when you realize that Dr. Kleiner is perfectly capable ( Read more... )

Its Spring and Demeter is happy and carrying it with her. She almost dances through the front door and gets a glass of beautifully bubbly wine before settling on the couch and grinning.

Her gaze is roaming over the Bar for people to help her celebrate and handsome young men who need to smile more.

It's a nice almost-Spring morning and Barbossa is walking around the lake towards the Caribbean inlet. The water is warmer there in case he would like to take his boots off and wade through the surf. He has a small satchel hung from his shoulder, the brass eyepiece of a spyglass poking out of it, and is absently throwing a small green apple up in ( Read more... )

Teja is in the bar, playing his harp, and waiting whether some that he would speak with, show themselves.

Two in particular he hopes to see; and both are women.-

Teja is out on the training ground by the lakeshore, swinging his axe rhythmically and methodically at a wooden target that is slowly being reduced to splinters ( Read more... )