Getting blood out of white Oxford shirts... as if this isn't the first time. If it weren't for the concern of having absolutely nothing to wear ...

Hm.

I hope everyone's recovered from yesterday's curse?

[ooc; The wound that helped kill him crippled him from the computer yesterday. He did die, but he's as alive as City!dead can be and grumbling ( Read more... )

In the space of a few short weeks, the City has become no more than a prison to me again.

The ticking has returned in full and that, along with the silence next door and in this apartment, is more hellish than any curse.

I am the only one left from my world, now.

... I suppose someone will have to take care of Ptolemy's cat. Tameri, was it?

...what?

I'm not dead.

I don't understand it. The last thing I remember is the Staff, and Nouda. I shouldn't be here, wherever 'here' is. It is certainly not London, but it is a city nonetheless. I have never been here, and yet...

I can't be here. I'm dead, for God's sake. I was consumed by Staff and demon.

Unless --

Bartimaeus.

Private to Bartimaeus and Queezle, Unhackable;Could I possibly speak to you two in private? With only a few days left regarding this sacrifice and countdown business, I fear our world is running out of any other options - save for one ( Read more... )

where is...

kitty. kitty please.
jesus. what did i do to you?

valentine
sorry -- so sorry.
not me but him.

ohgod i'm going mad

mad mad mad
magic incantation summon
notes, bartimaeus, i --

I DID NOT MEAN TO
but:

mandrake
complete.

it hurts it hurts blood...

[ooc; Upon midnight, Nathaniel comes to his senses, slumped on his study table and ( Read more... )

[Private.]

I think I understand now.

[/Private.]

[ooc; No one should be able to hack that, but feel free to poke at him, as he's emerged from the library now.]

All my research, all my books, all my notes, as well as the seemingly limitless supply of knowledge from the library... And absolutely nothing solves it ( Read more... )

I... I was scared.

I didn't want to die. Hell, nobody does, but I didn't want to show it at all. Not in front of them. I thought it would be grand to go out as some hero of London - the world, even - but I didn't know what the fuck we were fighting for. Not really. In the end, I guess I knew, those last seconds before Nouda devoured me. But I was ( Read more... )

Thank you, everyone, for such a wonderful Christmas. My first one that felt like a real Christmas. Though, I must say... some presents were startling. Thanks ever so, Miss Faye ( Read more... )

...I don't understand.

He's -- he's fine. He's well, not ill, his essence is like it's been replenished by the Other Place. But that's not possible, is it? I don't know if it's possible for him to return there from the City, if there are even doorways in and out of that place. Perhaps we are only linked to our corporeal world back home, otherwise ( Read more... )