Even with the commercial flight and an hours long car ride from the airport, Rose and Dimitri arrived at Court long before the group from St. Vlad's did. Rose wished she could have kept hanging out with Dimitri, but after being shown to the luxurious room allotted her, she had to admit that vegging out and watching tv for a while sounded really, ( Read more... )

Rose shifted from foot to foot as she stood in the lounge. She was at the back, watching the door while Eddie Castile who was assigned to Lissa for his field experience had the window side of the room. Lissa and Christian were watching a movie, and for once today they weren't discussing the bomb Rose had dropped on them earlier.

( After breakfast, Lissa and Christian... )

Rose lay across the bed as she watched Lissa pack her bag. It felt normal for once. After thirteen years of being best friends, she'd watched Lissa pack or unpack or choose her clothes for a party a million times. Not that Rose never did any of those things, but Lissa took so much longer than the waiting and advice and snarkery was pretty ( Read more... )

The sun was coming up as Rose pushed the door to what seemed to be a small rooftop deck open. She smiled at the sight of the sun sparkling off the layer of snow and tipping the mountains in halos of light. Fandom had gotten her used to seeing the sunlight regularly, and even over the past few days, she'd missed it. She brushed the snow off a ( Read more... )

Rose didn't like anything about Tasha Ozera but when she'd followed the bond to find Lissa in Christian's room - and Christian and his aunt practicing offensive magic, she had to admit that was pretty damn cool. Moroi using magic as a weapon was forbidden. It was a punishable offense, and while a student playing with it might just get off being ( Read more... )

It was nearing 4am when Rose and Dimitri got back to St. Vlad's.  She had been awake for twenty-four hours and was exhausted and bleary-eyed while Dimitri, of course, looked completely alert and ready for action.  He ordered her to go to the visitors' quarters and to go to bed as soon as they were back on campus while he headed off to consult with ( Read more... )

Too comfortable on her bed finally, Rose was just about ready to consider falling asleep when her phone rang.

If it hadn't been Lissa's ringtone, she might not have answered it.

( Cut for Conversation )

Terrified and panicking, Lissa's thoughts pulled Rose into her head...

"Why are you doing this? What's going on?”

( Read more... )

Some stupid quirk of scheduling made the St Vlad's end of summer dance on a Wednesday.  Somehow word had filtered down that even though she was still under house arrest, no one would mind if Rose went.  Which was fine, and she'd've been looking forward to it (especially with that new dress) if it hadn't been for Lissa.  Or not so much Lissa as ( Read more... )

Rose wasn't sure how Dimitri had managed to spin a shopping expedition to the mall in Missoula with Lissa and her cousin Natalie and uncle Prince Victor Dashkov as well as some other Moroi girls as a training expedition, but she was totally grateful from the escape from training plus the time she got to spend with Lissa.

It had been more work than ( Read more... )