Logan had taken apart the bed. He'd taken it apart and then dragged the wood from his hut, piling it up neatly near the center of the Hidden Hamlet, accompanied by a sign that said, simply, 'free wood'. After snickering to himself over the sign in question, he'd gathered some of the wood he'd planned on using for his newest surfboards, and set to ( Read more... )

Once more, Lily wakes up younger than she should be. After she and Eddie avoid an Emmy shaped disaster, she hangs out with Lisey, Chris and Lennox.

Threads timed to early morning, and lunch-time respectively, 31st October.

"Your children are all beasts," Lennox informed Hal as he peered over the top of the book he was reading, watching as all five of her puppies rolled around in the dirt in front of the hut. They were still pretty small and still very clumsy, but that didn't stop them from trying to play with each other. Even the smallest one was trying to get in ( Read more... )

On October 10th, Hal's puppies are born and Lennox immediately starts trying to figure out if they're boys or girls while Chris picks the runt of the litter to be the one they keep.

[PG for language.]

Robin was thirty.

She was thirty and no matter how many times she said it aloud, she still couldn't believe it. Thirty. Thirty whole years old, no longer a twenty-something, no longer a young adult. Now she had to accept what she did as adult actions and oh god, she really needed to not think about that. So instead of thinking, she went to the ( Read more... )

He's spent the night alone. It's taken some coaxing, Tom hadn't been especially willing, but gentle insistence and he'd given way. Yes, I'm fine. I'm sure I'm fine. You don't need to take the girls, I'm really fine. A night alone in this house, with his daughters, with his ghosts. He doesn't even know how many of them there are now. One more added ( Read more... )

It had rained for a week straight, finally stopping just a few days ago, and the weather wasn't the only thing that had changed on the island. Ray noticed it everywhere he went - a feeling of something out there, something watching and waiting in the shadows, that he hadn't felt since he got pulled out of New York. He'd been all over with the PKE, ( Read more... )

A day after Eostre's disappearance, Florence comes to the World Tree to visit Mike and the twins. They talk, in their way, and Florence is a comfort, as she always is. [Dated to October 2nd]

A couple of days later, Mike meets Chris in front of the Compound and asks him to see to it that Eostre's name is put on the memorial wall. The conversation ( Read more... )

In that weather, the rink wasn't the best place to be, but the rink was home, so that was where they were. Lily stood in the doorway of the rink, watching the rain, sipping from a steaming cup of coffee and, behind her, Emmy was playing on the ice ( Read more... )

The World Tree is blooming ( Read more... )