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the world changes around us
Early morning preparations, on the groom’s side of things, consist largely of a long series of aborted arguments best illustrated by Calista and her fellow groomsmen as the bomb squad to Sol’s repeated tick-tick-b-- no detonations yet, but she sends Charlie on a beer run before their dearly beloved has even got his pants on. She’s missing one ( Read more... ) -
the devil is in the details
While it's fallacious to say that what Leila does best is shopping, it is definitely something she's had a lot of practice at and thus can do in a reasonably efficient manner. So, on their weekend trip to New York to get a few things scheduled before Solomon's imminent divorce and then their departure to Singapore for the next six months, she has ( Read more... ) -
our backs against the ocean
Leila never thought she was all that into weddings, and yet: when she got engaged, all of that went out the window. After nearly five years with the same man and marriage only recently entering her mind as a remote possibility, it's like she had this whole other side of herself, and that side is an insane bridal-magazine reading dress-hunting ( Read more... ) -
all this heat is causing fires
Leila is used to living with Solomon, by now (and don't think she doesn't find it a bit weird, how swiftly she adapted in Taxon), but she still is not really used to having Ferdi there, and furthermore it's different at her own apartment in Baltimore, a place she'd previously thought she'd left behind. Although they kept talking like going home ( Read more... ) -
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Leila is only mildly concerned about the plan they have brewing to catch a handful of Technocrats and interrogate them--she knows the risks, and ordinarily her machinery and her talents are such that she is rarely involved in battle (you don't need to work it like that when you can incinerate the entire room), but there is Paradox to consider, ( Read more... )