Prelude

Valerie Bell learns not to be kind to strangers. Dreamer of Downside, formerly known as Anna, learns that sometimes you can't help those who don't want to be.

And Now

Iris hands over something familiar. Work is completed thereon. But then she returns unexpectedly, and good things come to those who wait.

Eostre Snow, who prefers that you call her Inanna, is trudging through the unholy dampness of a New York drizzle. Rain annoys her. She can't tell it what to do. It has no motives to analyze and no buttons to push ( Read more... )

Fey Hazard has a concert rehearsal.

Iris is early. It's a thing.

The guy down the hall is thinking things about his wife that she really, really wishes he'd wait until he got home for. At least, she hopes it's his wife. There was a wedding band, but you never know. She makes a face and chews gum, trying to get the taste of somebody else's private ( Read more... )