It is funny, the things that get remembered. A documentary on the Borgia pope’s mistress; Bianca had been a girl - seventeen when France invaded in 1494, only a little younger then the wide-eyed, innocent-faced and manipulative Guilia ( Read more... )

placeholder - Bianca leads Svava out of the boat-house. Mid-morning, warm and humid but overcast. Her old, two story+attic house is up a bit on the hill, and the beach stretches away to the right. It's a small cove, not that many houses but a few.

...which makes far more sense if this is read first.

( Literally, caithdein meant ‘shadow behind the throne’... )

It's the middle of the day, and Bianca is, it should be said, dressed - jeans and jumper and her wealth of blonde hair tied back into a plait. She is also, however, lying on her bed in the House of Arch, watching Arithon sleep.

And trying not to wake him.

It is strange, being able to walk out in the sun. It is even stranger having to put on a coat and scarf and boots for warmth instead of blending it.

And yet, there Bianca is. Walking outside in the sun, under the winter snow with a dreamy smile on her face.

She will never get used to the sun. Never.

Tom Riddle,

Alanna suggested I tell you this, and I think it is a good idea if I do. Sadly, I still get lost in your House, so this is the easiest way. I need to warn you about a possible threat in the Milliways, one which may affect your two children. You see, there is another vampire from my world in the bar, called Claudia. She was made when ( Read more... )

Venice hadn't been bombed so far, maybe not never. Hard to have tanks, with the canals, but, still ( Read more... )

Lets say the setting is Italy. This tells us a lot - it is after unification, it is when Italians are now Italians instead of Venetians, Florentines or Roman. Late 19th century, the entirety of the twentieth ( Read more... )

This is how mortals see, everything dim and dark. As if looking through water, and that water is murky and clouded with ink ( Read more... )

There was, Bianca had decided long ago, only one real problem in living in Australia. It isn’t the lack of hunting, or the distance from everywhere and everyone she knows. No, it’s the heat of summer ( Read more... )