[OOM: A visit from the Realms of the Dead brings as many questions as answers. But maybe, just maybe, they are the right questions.

Milli-timed to several weeks ago, after the attack on the palace.]

[OoM: And the night before Thom's resurrection, he goes to tell Delia...

And it turns out that he's not the only one who is leaving.]

*The back door opens, and Thom drifts in. He looks terrible: wet through with snow, wearing last week's thin black clothes. He goes on bare feet to a table, sits down, and rests his chin in his hands; closes his eyes.

After a few minutes, he shivers, opens them, and orders Atlantean.*

A little lady comes running into the bar.

And then she runs out again--and comes in, this time dragging Charlie by the hand, who's got Keiran and a baby bag on his other arm. "Play wif me, Charlie!" Georgia demands.

"Yes, Empress," Charlie says, laughing.

So, two bebbeh gods and their nanny in a bar. Watch out for falling cherry blossoms.

Night falls, and the air begins to hold a slight chill ( Read more... )

Last night, the front door had led Odile safely back to her work room back in the tower, and by the routes of the guards on the battlements, little time had even passed while she was in Milliways. Thus reassured, when she returned to her tower tonight and found that the workroom door lead back here ( Read more... )

[OOM: It's amazing how convincing voices from the past can be.]

Krycek's settled in a chair near the fire with a cup of coffee-vodka held tightly within his still-shaking hands.

He looks exhausted.

Exhausted and scared.

[It is return of the Boots. The Boots, the high-heeled, thigh-high, oh-so-black Boots.]

[and oh, there is a Delia attached to said boots, in a short black skirt and...no, not the Bodice. A green jumper, if you must know. Loose, but stylishly so.]

[she is also, surprise surprise, drinking a glass of wine at a table]

[OOM: Millitimed to January 9th, Goldy drops by to see Alanna, bearing belated Christmas gifts and news of Miho's return. But clearly it is the foot spa that wins the day.

Domino Harvey brings pizza and tales of being first a model, then a bounty hunter. Alanna is highly entertained. Once she's certain Domino isn't Elizabeth, that is ( Read more... )

There's an Endless in the bar ( Read more... )