Sleeping soundly wasn't exactly something Caterina could afford, especially not over the past few days. Her condition had flared up again, as it had every month, like clockwork, and it had left her body fatigued and her nerves racked. However, what she awoke to was not expected either. The overbearing red, as much as she adored the color, was most ( Read more... )

For three weeks, he had endured the silence, the tragedy, the sheer, unadulterated boredom of an apartment empty of all signs of intelligent life but his own. Well, his and those of whatever chiefly comprised the poor, ancient building's latest infestation -- the place was no dump (on two meager salaries, it was altogether a decent living), but the ( Read more... )

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"When in Rome..." was one lax attitude he was quickly coming to regret. Of course, there was no backing out, now -- excluding an impromptu dip in the river to wash off so much ridiculous costume. And that was well out of the question, given that at his last glance, the river was still full to the brim with those lovely glowing paper lanterns. With ( Read more... )

Outlaw was such a harsh word. He rather preferred vigilante, personally - at least there was nothing bad that could be said about being vigilant! Honestly, desperado might even have struck his fancy, had anyone bothered to ask. …Unfortunately, though, those sorts of labels simply weren't the type one could deign to decide for themselves, and with a ( Read more... )

Winter had always been his least favorite season - traveling was at its most difficult, even on foot, and harsh conditions always meant longer missions, time wasted, and frustration galore - but Abel liked to think he’d soldiered through it admirably, in spite of all its hardships, for at least half the past decade. A freak snowstorm in the dead ( Read more... )

((Continued from hereAbel grinned as he headed through the hotel, a specific destination in mind. It had been decided that the beach room would be put to good use as he and Sheena skinny dipped while pretending to be merfolk. They weren't interested in sex at the minute, just having fun as two friends ( Read more... )

Abel sat in a large window that looked out into an ocean and watched the colorful fish swim around the equally colorful landscape of coral and plants. His hair was loose, falling around his hips in a silver river while the navy blue silk robe he wore accented his pale coloration. His arms were wrapped around his legs and he rested his cheek on his ( Read more... )

He never could understand humans. He had seen them come into their full strength, weak though it was, and yet could not understand them for all the years he watched them crawl on by. But perhaps it might be because he never paid them much attention, that he found them insignificant and merely a passing chapter in the fabric of the world where as ( Read more... )

Crimes: Impersonating a priest of the Holy Church, slaughter of thousands, defecting during a war, murdering his brother, tempting others from their chosen paths, and lying.Abel closed his eyes against the merciless sun that beat down onhim. He couldn't remember the trial or even if there was one, but now he was in the stocks, head and arms firmly ( Read more... )