[The night has crept in, and the darkness is everywhere, pressing around the huddled teachers like an impending liquid menace.  There was a heaviness, a stillness to the room that quivered, and the silence was deafening.

Elizabeth Swann would have no such thing.

Gathering all of the leftover lanterns, she made a cluster of them, their glows faint, ( Read more... )

[Lilo was unresponsive to the noise around her. The only way she could cope was to stay absolutely still and quiet, clinging to the bandanna that Jack had given her and the photoalbum she had brought with her ( Read more... )

[First there was a deafening noise that made him hunch down and wrap his arms around poor whimpering Max. His eyes squinted, his jaw clenched, and he stroked Max's trembling head until it finally faded away ( Read more... )

[The fence continues to flicker defiantly against the mist. It may come as a small comfort to those who are on the outside... waiting for some sort of respite ( Read more... )

[Theres a noise, something organic and raw. The ground shakes a bit and you will be jolted out of your sleep. Get to a window and you'll see a flicker, the fence which has stood strong and proud against the black mist... the strangelings.... it's flickering.

It's not gonna hold up long.

( Suddenly a sound )

[This morning, you'll wake up to letters strewn all over the campus grounds. Taped to doors, slipped into rooms, littering the quads. All are sealed with a wax mouse symbol.
They all have one message:]

PACK UP.

Only pack what you can carry, pack warmly, pack necessities.

[The staff will find a similar letter addressed only to them. However, ( Read more... )

[Mulan sat with the other students. Well... more specifically with Kuzco, he hadn't left her side since all of this started, and currently, they were clinging to what must have been a hilarious amount of blankets ( Read more... )

[it was quiet... well as quiet as it can be with the mist looming outside the academy. The buzz and static noise of the distant strangelings, hopefully not closing in, rings in your ears.... no communication, but at least you are comfortable in your room. Heat, lights, refrigerators, everything you need to keep you relatively comfortable ( Read more... )

This is an emergenc----

[FZZZT]

--ay have spoken too soo---

[FZZZZZT]

STAY INSIDE. IT IS NOT SAF---

[FZZZZTI REPEAT IT IS NOT SAFE. PLEASE STAY INSI ( Read more... )

 [It's January Sixth, and the Academy has undergone a very dramatic change.

It's
The Festival
of Fools
The Quad is packed with stalls painted in bright colors, patterned in stars, moons, flowers and whatever else the canvas's owner might like. The chemists' stall has toads painted on it. Go figure.

Flags flap from the spires of the tens, ribbons ( Read more... )