[Out of Milliways: At the Slayer Academy, a couple of recently graduated Slayers get their field assignments.]

She comes in through the door looking pleased to be here.

There were things she had to do. To be taken by the earth and reborn is not a light matter. Besides, even before that, she was poisoned and thrown out a building. So she's spent too long recovering, in a sleep to reknit mind and body, and longer after that making up for what she had to miss ( Read more... )

Out of Milliways:

At the Slayer Academy, a plan that's been in the works for a long time finally begins to come together.

Hours later, aspects of it are discovered nearly simultaneously, both at the Academy and elsewhere. The plan picks up speed -- and is unexpectedly interrupted ...

Following which, of course, there are inevitably consequences ( Read more... )

Philippus has apparently been subjected to a makeover, given that she's wearing stylish-yet-practical city clothing instead of her usual comfortable, workout-ready garb. She also comes in with a distinct sort of swagger to her bearing, face stiff with pride, looking around with a distinctly superior air ( Read more... )

This tiny Scottish pony is fed up with being a tiny Scottish pony ( Read more... )

[Out of Milliways, millitimed to Wednesday: It's time for another visit from our old friend, the Law of Unintended Consequences.
This OOM is brought to you by the letters W and H and the number 3.]

[OOM: Years ago, Whitehall ordered the police to stop chasing down a certain missing scientist. Whitehall has since changed its mind, and sent its newest investigators to pick up where the police left off.]Harry Wells is not good at being idle, and never has been. When he wakes up before dawn without a good reason, he seldom wastes time lying in ( Read more... )

Here's the thing: It's hard to find good help these days.

Particularly when "these days" is defined as "the period of time during which one's husband has gone all tabula rasa, rendering him essentially completely useless in all matters of childcare." And Puck and Lilly have been meaning to do this for some time ( Read more... )

Wells hasn't had time to get to Brichester today, between the goats and the school and the phone call from his parents and everything else. It's left him bloody sour-tempered, to say the least. Well, there's one cure for that that damn near always works: gratuitous violence.

Those poor, poor paper targets. They never saw the bullets coming.

Philippus was not really warned about Bar's sense of humor, and failed to treat the unasked-for offerings of Bar with the appropriate caution.

Philippus is reading The Surrendered Wife by Laura Doyle. Her expression is mingled horror and revulsion, although she sometimes gives the occasional look of hopeful disbelief to the bar in general ( Read more... )