"You walked right into that one, Quin," Dru said ( Read more... )

Khil, Les, and Max, Aristan Foundlings, age 11, walked side-by-side in the marketplace, their steps matching so perfectly one would never think that just a few months before, the physicians had said Khil'd never walk straight again. Even the livid-but-not-fresh scars on their right arms matched ( Read more... )

Today is the festival of Aphrodite-Venus. It's a Girl's Holiday. There's flowers and feminine things.

In ten days, another April Holiday honors Asasarame-Pallas-Athene-Minerva. It involves, among the celebration and many other things, being terribly smug about being Aristan. Even more so than usual, we mean ( Read more... )

Imperatrix Hypatia Aristana had handled as much business in advance as she could, and briefed her sister -- who was finally finished with a Very Interesting Week -- on various contingencies. And now she was waiting for the young man her namesake among The Boys was so conveniently fetching for today's operation.

If anyone wants to know anything about the current whereabouts of General Marc, he blundered into a LOL. The Guard is running perfectly smoothly, but Her Majesty has ordered the General to confine himself to quarters ( Read more... )

Pat here, working the communication system all by myself, may I add. This is something involving telling people five words you associate with them and then they talk about those words. I was told about this by Metody, who is a fresh, leafy, sweet scholar barbarian.So there ( Read more... )

Very late in the reign of Imperatrix Aurelia Aristana, Pat of the Aristan Foundling Guard celebrated her last Lupercalia festival with a foreign guest, one who'd become a lot less foreign over the decades. She didn't dance quite as she used to, but it was still impressive for a woman of 51. She drank with her younger siblings-in-arms and gave the ( Read more... )

Pat was at Metody's this lovely February morning with a familiar long tan tunic and a smile.

"With all due respect, sir, you're coming ( Read more... )

Pat located Metody at his Nexus apartment several hours before Rid's jaw was to be dealt with again. She had a few things with her. Rang the doorbell.