After days of dealing with Nanika in the house - which mostly consisted of trying to get her to respond to anything and eventually conceding that she did in fact seem stuck in her current thought - and the same amount of time in dealing with a husband who was increasingly out of sorts (though at least not with him anymore), Hannibal was glad to ( Read more... )

Unlike last week music could be played today. To celebrate this Lucille decided to be adventurous and try CDs at random, playing a song or two from each. Most were horrible, of course, but even this didn't bother her today, and if she was to be honest there were a few good ones too ( Read more... )

There was a Silence at Groovy Tunes today. The Silence was a small black creature, somewhat squirrel-like, who, yes, you've guessed it, created silence around itself ( Read more... )

Still suffering the contradictory feelings of being unhappy about having to leave Allerdale Hall and unhappy about finding Fandom having become more of a home to her, Lucille spent her shift in front of a keyboard, playing a tune that reminded her of her brother and what should be the place where she belonged ( Read more... )

Lucille had just opened the shop and taken a seat in front of one of the keyboards. Perhaps someone would come in today to buy gifts for Christmas? She was in a good mood today as yesterday had been uneventful. Sadly the mun was too tired yesterday to expose her to mistletoeThat good mood wasn't going to last. She had hardly struck the first chord ( Read more... )

Lucille might have been less bothered by the decay and fog this weekend, but monstrous creatures and lack of food had definitely shaken her up a little. And there had been no working piano to play that would calm her mind. She compensated for this while working today. Perhaps one would expect that comfort to come in the form of gentle music, but ( Read more... )

Well, that had happened fast. Had it always been that fast, or was the process speeding up? Kathy couldn't remember. But this morning she'd gotten up and was greeted by the familiar fog and scent of mildew and rusting metal. Ahh, all the comforts of home. Cursing, she'd left her squat in Barry's old lab, hoping to find something to scrounge before ( Read more... )

Lucille had yet to notice anything strange going on when she opened the shop. As far as she knew she was the only version of herself on the island, and saw no reason to do anything other than what she usually did when working here, which of course was to play the keyboard. Amusing herself by setting it to sound like an organ, she played slow and ( Read more... )

It hadrly needed to be said that it was good to be back to her usual, teenage self. Hence Lucille was in a good mood opening the shop, and she set up one of the keyboards to sound as a harpsichord. The keys might not be the same as a real one, and perhaps it would make playing Dr Lecter's instrument more difficult, but she ignored that. After ( Read more... )

Lucille had recently begun to take an interest in botany, specifically in certain kinds of plants. This island offered more of those than the countryside around Allerdale Hall, which she anyway wasn't allowed to visit. Or she suspected there were more to be found here if only she knew which ones would suit her needs and where to find them. Perhaps ( Read more... )