Brian is thinking about Dexter. Kind of a lot, actually.

It's also been too long between kills, and he's making plans. After all, he hasn't seen the last one for a while, and having a kill unfinished leaves an unpleasant itch under his skin, a feeling of need running deeper than usual. He knows who he's going to take, but nonetheless ( Read more... )

Hisoka waits beside the canoe, which is drawn up in a foot of water with its bow on the sand. Two paddles are in the bottom of the boat. Friends and strangers, all welcome ( Read more... )

Mattie has been enjoying her existence at the Mansion, though she's sometimes homesick. She usually spends her time practicing her shooting, but today she's not outside ( Read more... )

On the lawns just outside the mansion appears what seems to be an oddly shaped but contained fire. It is boxy and, strangely, begins to fade almost as soon as it appears - ash and embers floating off into the air and vanishing ( Read more... )

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From the dark confines of the vortex of nothingness where his consciousness lurks, Morgoth has been observing. Waiting. Counting ( Read more... )

Ned may have never fully regained the spring in his leg since that awful fall in King's Landing. He may still feel stiff in the neck when it's humid. He may feel his body getting slower, less flexible, but he is still a strong man in his prime, and he is (ever was) a man with enough spine to strive through obstacles.

That is probably why he is on ( Read more... )

Aredhel has been uneasy of late - perhaps it is because she can feel, even in the calm cocoon of the suite she shares with her husband and daughters, that there have been... events... that stir the Blood. She's not preternaturally gifted by any means, but the White Lady of the Noldor has... intuition, sometimes ( Read more... )

Over the past few weeks, Pascal has been obsessively reading, noting, compiling. His teaching sessions with Fuchsia brought on some curiosity about organ transplants. From there, he stumbled into some disturbing reports which have kept him awake at night, disturbed his sleep and eating habits ( Read more... )