It was not the stocks or the boredom that got to Alec first, but the collar around his neck. The one dampening his powers. That horrible pink and nasty one. It sapped away his energy, like a fire deprived of oxygen.

Exactly like a fire deprived of oxygen ( Read more... )

At seventeen Alec has had very little experience in the world. He's spent most of his life living in a city and skipping school. The youngest of three children, he held the place of baby in the family rather well, living with his brother and twin sister ( Read more... )

He had done it ( Read more... )

His mind was clear ( Read more... )

Do you want to be free? Orion had asked him ( Read more... )

Kippurbirdy (11:11:47 PM): Eragon:*is beautiful ( Read more... )

Once the anger at having his privileges revoked burned out and the exhaustion from the fever left him, Alec started to become more active with in his small little world made up of Orion's rooms. He did the exercises that Orion had shown him so long ago and went through the training routines that he remembered. He had started to put on weight and he ( Read more... )

Orion looked up from his paperwork and glanced over at the fireplace where Alec lay, nearly glowing as the firelight played off his dusky skin, casting his face into shadow. They boy was pretending to sleep again, but Orion knew that he was awake and thinking. He could tell through their link, his mind was active, watching him from under nearly ( Read more... )

Kippurbirdy (5:48:20 PM): Alec: *saunters in with popsicle. Sits down in chair across from Orion ( Read more... )

For his eighteenth birthday, it was a rather strange day. He had planed to spend it sleeping and dozing like he had been for the past couple of days, utterly ignoring Orion. Well, sort of utterly ignoring Orion, beyond the staring at and daydreaming about. Perhaps a better word would be trying not to be noticed by Orion as he lay curled up in his ( Read more... )