These days in Taxon were short, the sun rising a little before ten in the morning and setting shortly after one in the afternoon. It was also cold and snowy, and combining all of that together it could be difficult to find anything worth celebrating. Fortunately, there were some individuals intent on making making sure there was still warmth, that ( Read more... )

The tablet turns on spontaneously to reveal a slender young woman with riotous brown curls seated at a table in a certain coffee shop not far from Taxon hotel. Coincidentally, it's the very same coffee shop she'd disappeared from well over a month ago in the middle of a tablet broadcast; the very same table too, in fact ( Read more... )

The tablet turns on before things get weird, so Taxon gets a quick upshot glance at the bare midriff exposed at Gwen's hip, underneath her heavy pea coat. There's some shuffling, so it's clear she's on the move.  And then all movement stops.

Gwen hears a voice, smooth and low...and barely perceptible.  But it's there, like a whisper coming from ( Read more... )

" - Have to learn to keep it under... control." Charles let his train of thought taper off with the startling realization that he was quite suddenly alone. Not only alone, but very much not where he had been just seconds before. His brows knit together, eyes sweeping around the metallic chamber, instantly on guard. His expression set into a ( Read more... )

Kobra had never seen snow in his life. Not that he had ever felt a particular urge to do so; in the hot desert days he was much more likely to dream of buckets full of ice cubes than snow. Though he would've taken it, if ice cubes weren't available ( Read more... )

The visual flickers to Party, curled up in the back of his car, looking a cross between very confused, very embarrassed, and maybe a little scared. That's what you get when you push a witch into an oven, but he's not quite sure how to put that one in to words. He's used to killing people, but right now he's not exactly in Taxon's good books, never ( Read more... )

( Cain, Dec 7 )

In the kingdom of Taxonia, there was a brave older brother. This brother was courageous and passionate, but his mind often wandered. The village knew him by the fiery red hair he possessed, and his way of distracting himself from chores to make up beautiful songs, or to draw wonderful pictures ( Read more... )

Once, as it tends to be, upon a time...

Far up in the skies, where blue melts into gray and gray into black, sat the King of Thunder on his tower of clouds. A forthright king he was, and quick to temper, as lightnings as sharp as knives and rains as heavy as the sea crushed down upon the earth during his foulest of moods. His daughters of rain, of ( Read more... )

The broadcast begins with a crouching Glitch (a heavy leather apron over a workman's version of his typical ensemble) holding his hands out like he's just balanced the tablet precariously on...something. He nods in satisfaction and straightens up. "Okay, follow me, please ( Read more... )