[OOM: Out of Milliways, and in a different part of Time: Weatherall Station gets a visitor.

Who turns out to have some unexpected relations hanging around.]The door opens not on a room or a field or a spaceship's interior cabin, but on a black field of vacuum shot through with the terrible flowerbursts of dying stars. It's the view from the ( Read more... )

Bran Davies, third year medical student at a Cardiff university, is reading a physical chemistry textbook, holding it open with one hand as he steps through the door. He is about to turn the page when he looks up.

"Well, now. It has been a long time, hasn't it?"

[After this.]The front door opens ( Read more... )

Out of Milliways:

Two stories end.

[OOM: Wales, 2035: Now that Cordelia has come, others arrive to join the Davies family for the Christmas holidays.

On Christmas Eve, the Davies family and Cordelia Vorkosigan trade stories, some of which have been garbled over the years. Bran steps in to tell the true version, surprising everyone and upsetting his wife Margaret, who is comforted ( Read more... )

Bran will have to leave Clwyd for the spring term soon, but at the moment he's still at the farm, reviewing his classnotes, preparing the next semester's work, helping out his father and the other farmworkers, and remaining infuriated at the local news ( Read more... )

[Out of Milliways:

After Cordelia Vorkosigan's unexpected arrival:

And so the Shortest Day came and the year died
And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world
Came people...]

Bran Davies, home from Cardiff for the holidays, has had some opportunity to rest from the stresses of the fall term. It is not entirely peaceful at home, though. The Dysynni valley, some hours north of Cardiff, is much closer to the fires than Bran's university, and the people of Clwyd Farm have been grim and thoughtful lately ( Read more... )

It is winter, and more than that, it is Midwinter-- or just past that longest night, rather. Christmas is coming, and Twelfth Night to follow. A time of great importance indeed, to that which she was once.

But this year, with all traces of the Dark now truly gone from her -- the last bit given and granted as of a summer past -- the middle of ( Read more... )

Yesterday, after another fruitless argument, Bran Davies stalked out of the Cardiff pub where the Plaid Cymru loyalists congregate. This time, several people followed him, including an eighteen-year-old education student from Llanelli by the name of Margaret Jones ( Read more... )