[OOM: Out of Milliways, and in a different part of Time: Weatherall Station gets a visitor.

Who turns out to have some unexpected relations hanging around.]The door opens not on a room or a field or a spaceship's interior cabin, but on a black field of vacuum shot through with the terrible flowerbursts of dying stars. It's the view from the ( Read more... )

Out of Milliways:

Two stories end.

[OOM: Wales, 2035: Now that Cordelia has come, others arrive to join the Davies family for the Christmas holidays.

On Christmas Eve, the Davies family and Cordelia Vorkosigan trade stories, some of which have been garbled over the years. Bran steps in to tell the true version, surprising everyone and upsetting his wife Margaret, who is comforted ( Read more... )

[Out of Milliways:

After Cordelia Vorkosigan's unexpected arrival:

And so the Shortest Day came and the year died
And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world
Came people...]

[OOM: Returning from the Summer Country, some time ago.]The door opens to an instant of starry blackness, and Will steps into the bar. It's been some time; he pauses for a moment, surveying the room with a faint smile on his round face, before he shoves back the thick brown hair that inevitable flops onto his forehead, and heads for the bar ( Read more... )

[OOM: The tale of Arthur and Guinevere and Lancelot in Fionavar has come to its ending, To the immeasurable relief of Bran, Will, Merriman and the other Guinevere, Arthur, King of the Summer Country, returns home to reclaim his kingdom.

Not long after, Bran also returns home.]

[OOM: The day after Galadan's visit to the Summer Country behind the north wind, Bran and Merriman discuss responses.

And some things... change.

The gift of humans, after all, is choice.

In the immediate aftermath, the Old Ones talk, and so do Bran and Moiraine.]

[OOM: After the Summer Country's unexpected and unwelcome visitor, the Old Ones and the regent take stock of the situation.]

[OOM and outside Time: In the Summer Country, there is a strategic retreat.

The general hope is that it will be more of a strategy and less of a retreat.]

[OOM: In the Summer Country, Raven visits a cousin, two not-quite-friends, and a sister. It is not so bad a thing at all.]