It's... possible Yuna overdid it on hot rum toddies last night. Not extravagantly, but enough that she chose to spend the night in Milliways. This morning she had a small headache, but it's passed by now, and she's more-or-less cheerfully marking time by the fire; when she goes home, she'll need to go to sleep, so she needs to wait until she's ( Read more... )

Yuna looks better than she has the last few times she was in the bar; tired, but clean and unbattered, barefoot in a simple blue shift. The Al Bhed shop doesn't have all the amenities--the constant lightning strikes are bad medicine for Al Bhed machina--but it's inside, and there's beds, and a tub to wash her dress in ( Read more... )

There's a pot of tea on Yuna's table, and a few cups; it would be very rude not have other cups available, if someone came over.

There's also a sphere; it looks something like a paperweight, a billiard-sized crystal ball of clear blue water, but faintly luminous.

Right now, if we can apply the word in Milliways, Yuna is praying, her lips moving ( Read more... )

Sometimes it seems like the Thunder Plains are never going to end ( Read more... )

Yuna slumps into the bar, sopping wet and streaked with dirt and mud. Years of posture admonitions from Lulu are giving way under the weight of her sodden sleeves and her staff. There are scratches on her face and her bare upper arms, and she's entirely given up on the smell of singed hair that hangs around her like a cloud ( Read more... )

There's the deep rumble and sudden crack of nearby thunder, impossibly loud, and the bar door blows open; Yuna flies in through it, landing heavily on the ground ( Read more... )

[OOM, In Spira:

Something long expected finally occurs, and also something less expected.

Something almost happens, but does not.

A variety of people thought lost re-appear, and one vanishes.

Something is discovered that everyone already knew.]

He knows that Regan is likely to be less than pleased when she hears about this. Still, right now he's restless enough that he's willing to chance it for the opportunity to get out of the few rooms in the New Mayfair house where he's been recuperating.

And so, moving slowly and with extreme care, Gabriel Tam comes through the front door into ( Read more... )

It's getting cooler out there, and Yuna remembers clearly what it was like last year; she's taking the opportunity to swim a little bit more before all of summer has leaked away ( Read more... )

Okay, nobody told Neville that Milliways had a replica of the Hogwarts lake out back.

Not an exact replica--there's only one greenhouse, and there's no stables or firing range or smithy at Hogwarts, and he's pretty sure he's never noticed that inlet before, but the lake and the surrounding area are, for the most part, the same ( Read more... )