From here.Jason stalks through the door, making straight for the Bar. That he doesn't immediately notice the obvious change in energy between the Lunatic Cafe and Milliways is a testament to how irritable he truly is ( Read more... )

There are, according to modern science, five critical phases during which a puppy may be emotionally or mentally affected to a degree more profound than any others. The most notable to most people comes at around six weeks of age, when a puppy is most capable of socializing and learning how to deal with other dogs, but that age is a long way off ( Read more... )

Tersa had been familiar with the Twisted Kingdom for centuries. Sometimes she spent long weeks or months with visions or dreams flooding in on her, wandering as she picked her way through them. She learned, or she showed others, what they needed to know. Once that was done, it gave her a measure of relief ( Read more... )

So far as Whistler knows, Suzi is still upstairs. Not sleeping- she doesn't sleep long, never has- but upstairs. Everyone needs some alone time, after all, and he's fine with that. That's why he's down here, with someone who is sleeping- someone of the small, furry, brown persuasion, curled up in a basket at his feet, snoring while he carefully ( Read more... )

Once again Suzi is knitting on the red blanket. Later she's going to go up and spell Whistler on puppy sitting, but for right now she's downstairs with tea and knitting. They're still getting used to being back. Its harder than usual to accept things from the bar, its dangerous and frightening.

And she just now realized that she more-or-less ( Read more... )

Jason is lounging in a booth, as he is wont to do.
Oh he's been around...you just haven't noticed him. Really.
He even spent quality time with friends and loved ones.
Really.
So come and say hello, even though he's...been here all this time...

Midwinter feast day had arrived, as closely as Khemrys could reckon it, and so she descended from her stillroom with her heavy basket in hand to give her gifts to Bar's keeping.

Alongside the gifts, she also gave a soft, plush guardsman and his companion steed with am elegantly penned ( note to Knox )

Gibbs is used to seeing Jack in one of his...Moments. Which is to say, he's never surprised by them. Even if this time, it means Jack is dressed strangely and has shaved his beard (revealing a surprisingly young and even mild face). That's new. But the demeanor...he's seen that before. It's the air of a man blessed by madness so often that he ( Read more... )

[OOM: The Silver Corporal makes a discovery on the trail of a murderer.]The door opens to the twilight gloom of a snow-shrouded Canadian forest. A gust of icy wind and snow follows the little man in the white rabbit-fur parka in, but he carefully closes the door behind him. "Looks like it worked," he says as he pushes back his hood. He pauses to ( Read more... )

Mun wants both her pups in at once and is being lazy. So two for one special on the pups ( Read more... )