Trowa has a table, and a book, and a cup of coffee. (Decaf.)

The book is in German, and is an overview of the history of India up through AC 120.

He's probably monitoring the room anyway, though.

(For 'probably,' read 'definitely.')

It's been a long, hard day in the Nursery Crimes Division. Two new 'straw-into-gold' dens have popped up, and there's been trouble amongst the bears, to say nothing (and please, please say nothing) about the public nuisance complaints about the mold growing from the Old Lady's shoe-shaped house ( Read more... )

River is settled on top of a table, barefoot and crosslegged. Her fingers wander idly over the fabric of her skirt, exploring the folds across her knee and the smooth wooden table below.

She's peoplewatching today, it seems. Or, well, watching something. Possibly it's just air. She seems to find it reasonably interesting, anyway.

[Watching ( Read more... )

Mai is having a bad day. Azula is in one of her moods, Ty Lee is sulking while pretending she wasn't, and to top it all off the door to her room (where she could finally get some peace and quiet) opens to hereShe spins to leave but the door is closed and won't open. Since it's undignified to scream in frustration or pound on the door, Mai turns, ( Read more... )

Mai pauses as she opens the door to find Milliways.

This place again.

Well, she's here. And the tea is good. She might as well stick around.

Which means that a few minutes later she's sitting at a table out of the way with a teapot and a single glass. She is neither expecting nor inviting company.

(But don't let that stop you!)

Lunch with two excitable toddlers and one assassin after running about in piles of leaves by the lake is usually a fairly messy affair, despite Havelock's best efforts. However, this being achieved and Aria and Adrian somewhat settled by the application of bread rolls, cheese cubes and apple pieces; it is time for quieter amusement indoors, ( Read more... )

It's not at all that Jamie doesn't like Helen and Joris. It's good having people to travel with - it really is - and Jamie's a social person and all, but . . . well, what with Helen and Joris not being really the best of friends on this time, and what with the natural stress they're both feeling as newcomers to the Bounds, and what with both of ( Read more... )

X-23 has recently discovered that promotions come with a lot of extra paperwork. And a lot of extra computer files. For the most part she doesn't mind ( Read more... )

At an out of the way table Mai sits with a cup of steaming tea. She's not actually drinking it at the moment. Instead she's peeled off one of her dark fingerless gloves and is turning it over and over in her hands examining it for weak stitching or minute rips.

A girl must be careful with her appearance, after all.

Magical girls get magical entrances; some of them do, anyway. Regular girls aren't anything special, anything notable; there's no sparkling flash, no announcement of grand destiny. Nothing at all ( Read more... )