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The man who walks into the bar may--to those who know a boy named Tavi of Calderon, or a certain Captain named Rufus Scipio--look somehow... familiar. He has the same dark hair--cut Legion short--and the same intensely green eyes.  He is tall and broad-shouldered, and really quite attractive looking in his Legion uniform and its red cloak ( Read more... )

"Teddy, honey--" The boy was crying again and it was for that reason that she stepped out of the kitchen to go and pick him up from the play pen ... or she would have done so if she hadn't stepped out into some other place entirely.

She tensed, glancing around for a long moment before she resolved to simply sit down and figure out where she was.

Every so often the inner machinations of the macrocosm that is the universe align in such a way as to bring tears to men's eyes and make him wonder at creation ( Read more... )

Mr. Saxon is an intelligent, cultured, and extremely popular gentleman, even among those technically at the very least his rivals, if not his enemies; a shoe-in for Britain's next PM (maybe you've even seen him on the telly ( Read more... )

It's a busy, busy universe out there, especially for someone in Jack's business.

So he feels fully justified in taking a moment for some lunch, and a beer, because he's one of the few people who can say, with something approaching absolute confidence, that the universe is not going to end in the next half hour ( Read more... )

He's outside, sipping green tea from a small cup and watching the sun set.

A man sits drinking green tea with honey.

A man sits with a great sword at his hip, a jewel at the end shimmering in a way unnatural.

There's an irishman sitting on the couch in his bookshop, doing exactly what is shown in the icon.

Yes, his lollipop is frozen wine.

Go ahead, bother him.

I dare you.

It's a little bit chilly today. Thus, Door is curled up on the couch with her legs tucked underneath her. Her ever-present Poli-Sci book is sitting in her lap and she's wrapped in a fuzzy violet blanket.

Company will likely not be ignored.