The room Lilly gets shown to is nice, if somewhat plain. It's been appointed with an eye to practicality rather than style--bed, wardrobe, writing desk--but the bed is comfortable, and when Lacey shows her to the room and asks if she'd like anything, she includes both tea and coffee in the list of options ( Read more... )

While markedly less cozy than the village of Kingussie, Loch Laggan is, in its own way, quite scenic. The lake itself is broad and spreading, bordered by thick pine forest and low mountains, the largest of which is home to the main building of the Aerial Corps' training facility--a large hall set directly into the mountainside. A gravel road leads ( Read more... )

In spite of its proximity to the dragon coverts at Loch Laggan, the village of Kingussie has always been a peaceful place. With so many of its citizens in service at the Loch, Kingussie is a place for quiet and rest, ideal for the occasional much-needed rest from the excitement of living in close quarters with dragons and aviators ( Read more... )

It's disorienting in the extreme to walk through the front door of Milliways and find himself back in the corridor at Loch Laggan, with no doorway or bizarre magical place in sight, but as Laurence takes an uncertain look around and then proceeds to his room, he's careful to fix the place he was standing when he came back in his memory ( Read more... )