Objectively speaking, her drafting of landscapes and buildings showed a spark of real talent. Her life drawings, on the other hand, could not be classed as anything but abysmal. For as well as she read people and was able to be helpful in parsing their problems, she still could not seem to translate the cues that gave meanings to their actions onto ( Read more... )

River was pretty excited to be putting the final touches on her little dance studio. It was just a hut, right off the path not too far from Serenity, but it was everything she needed and all hers. She had offered to teach ballet as part of the school's curriculum, believing that the island could only benefit from some proper culture, but she ( Read more... )

Life goes on.

That was what they said, wasn’t it? Not that Kathryn was overly fond of stating the obvious as a means to make people feel better, but in this case the implications seemed true enough. It did go on and you could get used to it. Even if life in this case meant being stuck on an inexplicable, seemingly magical island in the middle of ( Read more... )

Three weeks.

There were days when the mere thought made her want to scream. At other times it simply drew her attention back to the feeling of guilt that kept eating away at her heart. For three weeks she had been trapped in this place, confronted by its madness and unable to find a way back. And at the same time her ship, her people were in ( Read more... )

Even if they did have electricity, Beverly had gotten used to not staying up late at home, because of the lack of light. Humans got adjusted to situations fairly quickly, Deanna had always said. Not adjusting meant that there was either something wrong with you or that you were too damned stubborn ( Read more... )

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Sarah had had her doubts about the nature of their location at first. True, she couldn't think of any explanation for how they'd arrived on an island in the middle of nowhere with no apparent gap in time between the moment of departure and the moment in which she'd found herself there, but huge gaps between what she and what Chuck last remembered. ( Read more... )

Slow and sure, Ygritte's life had returned to the settled wandering she'd been living before. The endless bounds of ocean forced her nomadism to stay within its reaches, but there were several campsites along the shore, and a few in the woods, that held her interest. More than a bit secretly, she wanted to spend a night or two on the mysterious ( Read more... )

At first, being something like half her usual height had seriously freaked Serena out. She was tiny and her clothes, when she'd woken up, hadn't fit, and everything was so much bigger and further away than usual. After a while, though, she'd calmed down. Somewhere along the way, she'd even begun to enjoy herself ( Read more... )

Kathryn came to lying on the deck where the last attack of Annorax’s ship had flung her, amid the debris that had once been Voyager’s bridge. A sharp pain shot through her body originating in her right shoulder. She felt dizzy. Well, it didn’t matter much now, anyway. The only thing that mattered was to end this and quickly. With a tremendous ( Read more... )