Ringo wasn't nervous or anything. That was a silly idea! Sure, she'd spent longer than usual picking out an outfit for today, and she had some new lip gloss, but that was just because of reasons. And those reasons certainly didn't involve being nervous ( Read more... )

Edward was restless ( Read more... )

As far as first school days, Laura had to admit it had gone pretty well. No dead, no maimed, nobody hurt in any way that she considered serious. It was a far cry from it being okay, but it sucked a lot less than Utopia and their unique brand of judgy teens. And she couldn't even blame Nori and company, but it was nice to be somewhere people didn't ( Read more... )

Raven had a very light schedule in the middle of the week these days -- which was good, because it turned out that taking correspondence courses was much more work than she'd expected. She'd totally thought Kathy was just extra-nerdy! But Raven had to keep on top of her online classes constantly if she wanted to keep her grades up, and no way was ( Read more... )

While Alluka didn't know lots and lots of things, she knew what a tea party meant and, after talks with Ringo and her own experiences at the welcome picnics, she knew that it was important for real parties to have lots of tasty food and fun things to drink. So that was easy enough to figure out! Then she let Ringo handle that ( Read more... )

So. Merrill had discovered the roof, and more relevant to her interests, the rooftop garden. This had been entirely by accident, as she'd been trying to get from her dorm room to the preserve at the time, and don't ask how exactly point A led to point C by way of missing point B because she'd been a little too lost in her thoughts at the time and ( Read more... )

It was a beautiful day, and Anders wandered up to the roof to feel the sun on his skin and look out at the ocean. He'd come out of the simulation with mixed feelings, and the last few days hadn't done anything to change them. He was angry to be taken, angry to be held against his will -- but he always enjoyed fighting just that tiny bit more than ( Read more... )

Lottie wasn't going to need an email to tell her to look up and see that there were aliens. She had an excitedly barking dog and her own finely honed mystery instincts to do that for her ( Read more... )

Ringo hadn't actually realized that there were stairs up to the roof. She'd contemplated trying to get up to it via ATs, but just walking was so much easier. Not that that was going to stop her from trying the harder route some day ( Read more... )

It was that quiet, gray time right as the sun's rays stopped coating the world in brightness and right before the darkness slipped over the world like a well worn cloak.

-gotta wakey, wakey, Jasper, my boyJasper startled, blinking sluggishly. Had he fallen asleep? No, no. No, he'd just been in some sort of daze, staring down at the island ( Read more... )