Two women stood in the dappled sunlight of the archery field, looking like night and day. At first glance, the only thing they seemed to have in common was an interest in shooting at the targets at the far end of the field. One was blonde, the other dark-haired, and their clothing also differed in style and era. The bows each used were nearly ( Read more... )

Walking along the beach during sunset, Sonya found it was one of the few things about the island that she truly enjoyed. Holding up the long skirts of her white dress, she traced swirling patterns in the sand with her toes, holding her sandals in the other hand.

Even better was that there weren't nearly as much people on the beach during the ( Read more... )

Between classes and her usual morning run, Thursdays tended to be the most exhausting day of the week for Lyra. Yet, today she didn't mind. In fact, Lyra had welcomed the distraction. Looking no different than usual, she sat across from Draco with her overstuffed schoolbag on her lap, one of her two paintball guns resting innocuously on the arm ( Read more... )

The tiger had grown, and Ygritte knew little more about it than when she'd first let it find her. It was big, now, but she let it hunt for meals itself and it mostly stuck to the boars. Somehow, her constant lecturing about eating the livestock, especially the goats, had managed to sink in ( Read more... )

Every year on her birthday the Domestic Bursar at Jordan College would send for Lyra - or have her tracked down and caught - and have a photogram taken ( Read more... )

Surreal was happy. Normally, this wouldn't be a strange thing, but with the island being what it was, the backwards ideals of nearly everyone on it, it was rarer than back in Kaeleer. She enjoyed the sand and the surf as much as anyone, and there were parts she didn't want to give up, but it wasn't the same ( Read more... )

That night found Sonya lurking in the rec room, and as she wasn't in the mood to argue with a box, she wore the boxers and t-shirt that served as nightclothes.  Her bare legs meant that the old scar on her right upper leg visible for any one to see, though frankly, she didn't care anymore.   The nightmares that almost caused her to scream out in ( Read more... )

Kon groaned softly when he woke up. It was still that time just before dawn when the entire world was quiet. Except that Kon could hear the chittering of squirrels and the calls of birds. He tried to roll over, but his feet tangled in the sheets and he kicked something off the bed as he was trying to get them out. That woke him up completely ( Read more... )

Alcuin was using the weather as an excuse to catch up on his reading--or rather, to spend enough time perusing the bookshelf to find among the rotating volumes some of the subjects he had been hoping to explore ( Read more... )

While most of the island had hated the previous week's weather and seemed to be enjoying this new climate (if only for the novelty), Garak was the opposite.  He had greatly enjoyed the heat and humidity and had spent the vast majority of the week on a rock deep in the interior of the island doing his very best impression of a regnar.   When he had ( Read more... )