Because the del Valle sisters rarely wake up singly, there is a pretty enough green-haired girl sitting next to a fireplace and doing some embroidery. The creatures vary on the cloth, from dragons and griffins to chimeras, but they all seem to ... move naturally ( Read more... )

He pulls the unnoticeable charm off himself as he realizes he isn't in his room, nor in the library. He reaches a hand down to touch his amulet, the hexagonal shape against his skin, followed by a quick diagnostic charm to figure out what, if any, magic could have been used to do thisHe can't seem to find any ( Read more... )

She isn't sure when she wanders into the backyard of the bar. She merely knows that one moment she'd been walking through a fragrant garden and the next she was here, feet crunching in the cold snow ( Read more... )

He's in town again, not that Harry knows yet. That said, he'd come in from the Nevernever a little later than he'd expected (he still wasn't quite sure about how time worked there and he did miscalculate on occasion) and he's not about to take what little sleep the guy gets ( Read more... )

It isn't an entirely uncommon sight. Rosa is seated in an unoccupied corner of the Market admiring some of the 'new' thread she'd traded for and imagining what it might best be suited to.

That doesn't mean she isn't paying any attention to her surroundings, of course. She knows better than that by now.

Graham is sitting in a corner of the Market, alone, trying not to be horribly depressed ( Read more... )

The nice thing about being a freelance sorcerysoft designer was that you could work anywhere... including the end of the universe.

The apartment had been too cramped and the park had been too bright and the beach had been too distracting. Thus, Mikael was here. In the bar. Still stuck.

"If this stupid bastard wasn't stuck on using Elder ( Read more... )

Richard ducks into the Perunu's restaurant, has a quick wash-up in the WC, and takes the wee booth in the back corner by the kitchen that no one likes much.

He didn't like the suit, but it matched her dress and he'd been told that it showed him off well and he did so like to be shown off. Most of that had nothing to do with vanity and everything to do with success; after all, if he couldn't function well at something like this and still exude the sort of strength and personality the job required, what ( Read more... )

Graham had gone to work today, and she had as well. It was a mildly routine thing, really. But when she'd come home before him, as she sometimes did ... she'd begun to worry.

It's understandable with his occupation and all, that she's worried. Even if she knows that he is a very good Bravo. Things never go her way all the time, and she knows that ( Read more... )