While he knew the definition of the word, it wasn't until after a year on Tatooine that he truly understood the meaning of exile. The desert planet was already sparse and with his only contact with the outside world being a moisture farmer and his wife, Obi-Wan heard little news of the war outside of Owen's grumbling ( Read more... )

Xanadu has proved a place to take a break from Sunnydale, from time to time, and Tara feels she needs it.  She's uncertain what to do about Willow, she has her own death hanging over her head, and she isn't sure who she can talk to about all that's on her mind anymore ( Read more... )

There were few things that shocked Karrin anymore. This probably came from being friends with a wizard and working with him on a frequent basis. You either learned to accept the weird, strange, and down-right insane or you went nuts yourself. Karrin had adapted to the strangeness over time and was much stronger for it ( Read more... )

His steps are sure but his heart was heavy. The ruins of a cottage left him feeling a loss that he missed a very important person in his life. He sighed and stepped toward the remains of a window and looked up. He hoped that he would see a cardinal but the bird wasn't there to greet him this time. Granted that he knew where he was now and in the ( Read more... )

If multiversal hubs would like to evolve, that's fine - it seems charmingly adolescent, to go from sprawling madness to a proper (if still sprawling and quite mad) city. 'Look at how grown up I am, I have street signs!' Yes, charming, teenagerlike, growing pleasantly and not setting anyone's house on fire or engaging in twisted political subterfuge ( Read more... )

By now, the most recent resurrected arrivals - a pair, hailing from the late 17th century, who apparently incurred some starvation before their deaths - have adapted a little to their new surroundings, but they still carry with them a good deal of trauma and worry, so now they must go and find whatever assistance they can. Sanchari has thoughts of ( Read more... )

The question-and-answer aspect of the nexus has always entertained Martel - mostly because he's a sick bastard who enjoys other people making idiots of themselves now and then - but it's been a very rare occasion that he'd indulge himself, and rarer still that he'd indulge it stone cold sober.

He'd like very much not to be stone cold sober, ( Read more... )

Ichabod snapped open his eyes and looked at his surroundings. Everything was amiss to him. The setting seemed too new and too modern to be the Van Tassel home where he was last remembered to be ( Read more... )