~If you could surrender to a pair of arms ( Read more... )

Pat has a pot. Pat has a sack. Both are filled with stuff -- the pot even has something sticking out of it. She carries each in one arm while heading to meet Metody.

Pat waits, a small bundle in her lap, at the bench by the giant red stiletto-shoe.

She doesn't look her happiest.

Was hearing all about Secret Service nicknames today.

While there is no possible way for such a tradition to have evolved on Arista, I couldn't help but think that if it somehow did, Aurelia's would be 'Auntie' and Erasmus's would be 'Asinine'.

Operation Life's-Too-Short-Sir got off to difficult start, one full of glaring, and Luc comforted himself with the fact that if he did get knocked through the wall, no one would yell at him about the damage; the General was never one to shift that kind of responsibility ( Read more... )

Luc reported, slowly, carefully, and establishing from the start that the matter seemed to have been neutralized.

Saying Cass's name around the General always feels like delivering a knife to the heart.

"....You've...checked at the aqueducts?" He says, sounding far older than he normally does. Older than the Foundling Guard can live to be, really ( Read more... )

In keeping with current exchanges of information, we are open to questions.

Arista's very first invited transdimensional guest is back for another visit, another osteopathic issue. Metody will find the early aspects of the visit quite familiar as Pat walks him through the door hand in hand that morning.

It's another beautiful day, as Metody'll see if he looks out the windows, although perhaps a bit cooler than it was in

And soon, early that evening, Phoenix is at the palace, about to depart but discussing the case a little with Aurelia and Erasmus, surrounded by their respective security details, and one or two secretaries ( Read more... )

It was decided that Phoenix take at least the fifth day of the investigation to attend to preparations for the trial and other matters at home. But on the sixth day, his presence was requested. Well, Aurelia, though Pat, requested it. The instigation of the request was much less....request like.

"Mr. Wright, what is the meaning of this?" C Olivius ( Read more... )