( Cut for length, spoilers for the end of the mini-series/the end of the second book, and for a wonky attempt at mimicking Mervyn Peake's dense prose style... )

Albert Herrera, formerly the Viscount de Morcerf--it was hard not to remind himself that with almost every step he took--heard the boarding call for the shuttle to Luna. He gave the attendant his ticket and passport with his new, and entirely legal now, name. It had been his mother's name, and after she'd retired back to Marseilles, he'd been ( Read more... )

In the common room, one might notice a brand new sign. Not too far from it, two students. A tall and lanky young man (though he's almost in his 30s), with brown hair and gray eyes, and a small dark-haired young lady are sitting by a desk and chatting a touch feverishly.

The sign?

Open College Project

Looking for students and teachers! Speak to us, we' ( Read more... )

Simeon's been in the library, and now he's sitting around the main room with a few books on circutry and computers, flipping through another about an early 21st century programming language. It's much simplier than the languages he's used to using, he doubts that one could create a genuine AI with it at all. Still, it's giving him a better idea ( Read more... )

A very earnest little red-haired girl is practicing her ballet moves in the ballroom. At least as well as she can without a bar. She's humming some soothing music herself, perhaps badly and loudly enough to attract attention. The kind of dancing Tsuzuki is teaching her, she can't practice without a partner, so she's working on her balance in the ( Read more... )

He came without warning of his own, and yet some dwellers in the Mansion might have detected some odd phenomena that sunlit morning: Some might sense the fluttering of the wings of a dove, others might have seen a flash in the clear spring sky that might have been lightning, but heard no thunder. Some might have seen the image of a chalice borne by ( Read more... )

This was strange. The island wasn't all that big, so how on earth had they gotten separated. "Brother~~~" Al looked around, even going so far as to look in a cave. If only Ed hadn't run off like that, he wouldn't be searching all over the place. Maybe by the beach? He could hear the water, though it didn't quite sound right, and he headed for the ( Read more... )