It wasn’t a pretty fight. Of course, there were no pretty fights, not really. When Jordan had challenged in fencing when he’d been fifteen, that had been a pretty challenge, more like dancing than a battle. But this was different ( Read more... )

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Another busy, long day, and it never fails. Just when you think you might get a handle on the insanity that is life, something else goes wrong.

Also mirrored on DW.

It's been a while since they last met properly. Not one of those fleeting glances in passing that strangers smiled and coyly averted their gaze away from when their eyes happened to meet at the same time, but an actual time, place, sit down and talk to me type of meetings ( Read more... )

It's time to make a decision. The question is, though: which one? Which one first?

Actually, the question is: what is Leigh making a decision over? Gifts? Homework? Baking?

also at DW

Since the show where he'd broken down and talked about his mother, Shuffle had been fairly quiet overall. And you really can't blame him--it was all too easy for people to discover who had brought their mother into the hospital and moved into Heart Castle. So, there had been no great controversy from the DJ. Oh, he'd reported on the new additions ( Read more... )

Qi has not been able to LJ so...

There is a thread here with Iollan and Chives.

And a post here by Eileen.

The last few weeks while the Borders have been down, there's been a slowly mounting feeling of oppression settling in over the Deck. Everyone tense, everyone on edge, everyone telling themselves and each other it'll be fine. She's noticed, of course. Even the kids have been reacting, acting out or up for it. The wild get wilder, and the quiet get ( Read more... )

So with the borders opened up, it's time for a bit of a business trip. He isn't expecting to be gone long, but there are things he's promised to get for people, things he's promised people Outside he was coming to buy soon. All sorts of promises all over the map. So that needs to get done and there's certainly very little he can do about whatever ( Read more... )

She didn't sleep well last night, which is becoming something of a beginning-of-the-year habit for her. This year, though, the insomnia has little to do with being afraid that she's going to fail a challenge - the challenge, really, that made her a Spade - and more to do with...well. With the Deck. With what it's doing right now that feels, to her ( Read more... )