Behind the bar, it's a little cooler than usual. Not surprising since the woman behind it is the literal embodiment of Winter. She had wandered downstairs, bored of sculpting living ice, and when she saw the vacant bar, she slipped around the pass-through in a rustle of ice-edged snow drift skirts and settled on a conveniently appearing snowbank. ( Read more... )

When she sweeps down the stairs, the Snow Queen has nothing in mind except perhaps a bottle of chilled vodka at a table suitably removed from the main bustle of the room that her natural cool won't cause the warmbloods to fuss. Unfortunately, when she reaches the foot of the stairs, she sees that the bar is unattended. She moves behind it ( Read more... )

Teja merely wants some tea when he approaches the bar this late afternoon; but he doesn't get any. Instead, he gets a small piece of paper cloth on which there is writing:

3 hrs break. You're the lucky patron chosen to tend bar for this interval of time.Teja sighs, and then spots the three rats that serve him, most of the time, standing by the ( Read more... )

Jadis is perched at the bar with a plat of salmon salad, a glass of cloudy apple juice, and a book.

Botherable, eminently so in fact. She's in what passes for a good mood, with her.

Jadis never leaves Milliways (where would she go?), but that doesn't mean that she's always entirely there. Time can play strange tricks, and no-one really knows how big the library is. Suffice it to say, that when Jadis wanders into the Bar this evening, book in one hand, she hasn't been gone - you just haven't seen her around ( Read more... )

*She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies,
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meets in her aspect and her eyes...ºMore to the point, she walks the paths of Winter, dark and cold, brilliant as the sparkle of icy moonlight on fresh snow. She is Winter. She is the Snow Queen and she has returned to Milliways ( Read more... )

There's no real sign that a party went on yesterday; the loompas made an exception and got busy outside once most patrons headed in to sleep ( Read more... )

Jadis has been riding, and as such when she comes back into the bar, her hair is wilder than usual. Her paper-white cheeks are almost flushed, and there is a distinct sparkle in her eye. The smile almost hovering on her lips is maybe even genuine ( Read more... )

*The Snow Queen arrives in a swirl of white fur and rush of freezing wind. For once, she seems lees that annoyed that she has ended up in the bar. She picks up a bottle of vodka and a glass and sits at a table in the middle of the room*

Tom was out by the lake earlier today, preparing for the birthday ball. He'd been most disturbed to discover scorched earth and the lingering traces of wild magic - disturbed, wild magic - near the site he'd planned ( Read more... )