The three days had been up.  John had wandered this strange London that was so much like what he remembered, but equally foreign to him.  He didn't like feeling like a stranger in what he would have normally considered his own home.  He didn't like how limited he was, confined to such a small area of London.  It would have been best if he could ( Read more... )

The first person that Jogn went to see after Helen was Nikola.  It was not an unusual sequence, often he went to see the other man for one reason or another after he had a run in with Helen.  Nikola was both helpful and secretive, which made it that much more enjoyable when Helen inevitably discovered that Nikola had been helping him without ( Read more... )

John had promised Helen that he would stay away from her until his three days were up, but he made no such promises about Will.  He refused to think of the man as her husband, although he wasn't entirely sure if that was because he hated the idea or because he found it so ridiculous.

So he had decided to pay Dr. Zimmerman a visit as early as ( Read more... )

It was the smell that first got through to him.  Phnom Penh, especially the slums, had a very distinct smell to them.  As did Victorian London.  John Druitt was familiar with both of those smells, and even through his drugged haze, he realized that something was different ( Read more... )