The first thing William noticed, of course, was the cold. Growing up in California made him a bit more sensitive to cold than he would have liked, but that had never been a problem on the Island. Until now ( Read more... )

It was hard not to be bored as hell sometimes. Back home, Gideon had always been on the move. And sure, his version of being on the move likely involved some form of illegal activity, that was besides the point. He wanted to do something that wasn't laying around watching the fucking clouds on the beach or whatever. Of course, the bookshelf had ( Read more... )

It is a good day for an escape ( Read more... )

He was gone. William had been looking all morning, in all of the places he thought Miles would be, but it was a half-hearted and empty search. He knew that Miles was gone, almost certainly forever. He walked through the Compound in a daze, barely registering the faces of the people he passed ( Read more... )

Living on the edge of the sea meant that the journey to anywhere other than into the water was quite a far journey. What was started in the morning was usually not returned until the evening, which left hours for exploring and moving about in between ( Read more... )

Pudge sat outside of Doris after deciding he was sick of reading the same three biographies over and over again. The shelf had not been a friend to him lately, and he was tired of staying indoors anyways. Smoking was a habit that he probably should have kicked a long time ago, but something about it made it feel like he was not too far from home. ( Read more... )

When all was said and done, it looked like something out of a storybook ( Read more... )

There's a story Ophelia knows ( Read more... )

Even if Serena hadn't fallen into a kind of routine in her island life, Saturday morning would have found her in the kitchen. It was Chuck's day to make breakfast, and she and Ned always made the best things, at least as far as Serena was concerned. She might have been a little biased, but that didn't make it untrue ( Read more... )

Gideon was surprised he was coming off as calm as he fucking was with this shit. Inwardly, he was a ball of nerves, which didn't get any better as he fucking stood up front. Everyone was gathered in a halfway decent set-up on the beach, and he knew all eyes were on him. While he didn't usually mind that shit, suddenly it was all in a different ( Read more... )