Those outliers weren't outliers for long. The numbers, so promising, held and then grew in the months following the show's premiere. Christof was pleased ( Read more... )

Only a few cafes in the area kept their doors open this late, and those were only equipped with a skeleton crew, each individual counting down the minutes until closing and turning off that misleadingly welcoming sign brightening the darkness outside the door. Rachel was focusing more on the prospect of sleeping in tomorrow than on her task of ( Read more... )

It had not seemed like little Evie was going to be born on schedule, so Christof had had to take the matter into his own hands. The network's doctors had induced labor a good while ago, now, long enough for the party being held for the directors and crew in the control room, celebrating the beginning of a promising new chapter of their grand ( Read more... )

The clouds gather...

... and the daylight dims...

... as the rising wind howls...

...into the fury of the breaking storm.

But the quieting gloom after the storm has passed...

... brings no comfort to those it leaves behind...

... only the dread of the coming night...

... bringing the chill of the dark.

As the days grow darker, pity those ( Read more... )

"Sir, you're expected in the boardroom in twenty minutes," Christof's assistant, Chloe, reminded him as she set down his morning's third cup of coffee ( Read more... )

They turn, and they are somewhere else. Another shadowed alley in the sprawling city of Los Angeles, with only a passed-out drunk to be an unknowing witness to their arrival.

The Rider takes a quick (free) breath, then lets it out ( Read more... )

The days have been getting darker, these past few weeks. The clouds are so thick that it is impossible to tell where the sun is at any time of day. Noon is merely brightened, frosty twilight ( Read more... )

A short dramatic scene starring:

Aspen, as herself
White Rider, as herself
Saphyria, as herself
and Black Rider, as himself

( Over tea, tonight, the Black Rider makes a certain remark concerning the White Rider's choice of minions. )

Hallo, all. I know there hasn't been much of the Black Rider around lately due to his mun (raindrenched) being caught up in school work and such, but there has been a change of management. Now, everyone's favorite (or second-favorite) Lord of the Dark is being mun'd by saphyria. She promises to let him out of his cage occasionally, for snark and Dark deeds ( Read more... )

( Rider Plot Summary as it Happens! )