Luke walks into the bedroom in the House of Arch, Val in his arms. He settles her gently on the bed, settles himself beside her, and wraps his arms around her, pulling her close.

Only then does he start to shake.

I want you tell me how I'm doing with my characters. What am I doing right? What am I fucking up? What do I need to stop doing? What do you want me to start doing? Anything at all.... So, yeah. All the cool kids are doing it. Luke's my only character, and I know I don't play him near often enough (school, very small job, occasional actual real ( Read more... )

Sometime late that evening, after the reception, Luke walks into their House of Arch suite, Val behind him ( Read more... )

Luke bursts out through the door of Milliways, into a desert town. He almost turns back before realizing it's a different desert than the one he normally finds outside the door. After a couple of confused moments, he approaches the nearest passerby. "Excuse me. I'm looking for the Wiggins... brother and sister, close to my age ( Read more... )

Conversation over dinner is as it always is. One of the younger girls has made a dress for her doll and wants to show it off; the boys played sandball today and came home with black eyes and bloody noses, for which they have been thoroughly scolded by their mother; their father is teasing them, in a good mood after a successful day. Luke waits for ( Read more... )

Luke strolls through on his way out to a little lightsaber practice, snagging a bottle of water from the Bar as he passes it. He has the helmet under his arm, the remote tucked inside it, and is already unclipping the 'saber from his belt as he walks through the front door, as he has been lately. After all, he's Bound. It just leads to the lake ( Read more... )

Luke walks into the room, Val behind him, holding his hand. The music playing is unfamiliar and orchestral, but very dramatic; he tilts his head and asks Val, "What's that?"

And then he spots the box, and says "Ooh," and picks it up. "Should we open it?"

Right, well, all the cool kids are doing it. Ask my character a question. I've only got the one of him, but he likes talking.

[OOC: Post taking place the morning after Luke bought Something Sekrit from the Bar.]Luke wakes up alone. Not unusual; he's already figured out that Val's an early riser, and he's used to having to go into the bar to find her. It's when he notices the blank space on her desk where the laptop should be that he's worried ( Read more... )

Luke wakes up, for the tenth time he can remember, on a bench in the... well, call it the Other Bar, the one that door by the refreshers apparently leads to ( Read more... )