Talking to Goewin has made Melou painfully aware, all over again, of his shortcomings. The morning's pale sunlight finds him sitting on the Mansion's porch, a cloak tucked close around him, polishing the rust off his sword. At least something--at least something he could do right, if he put his mind to it ( Read more... )

So around evening Morgause is going to have a grandson at her door, half-dressed, dishevelled, his face dead white and sick-looking around the mouth, shaking badly. He knocks and waits, hugging himself with one arm.

He was so not prepared for this.

Melou, wearing his usual look of utter woe, is picking huckleberries on the edge of the woods. He remembered a basket this time, and is working steadily, his fingers a little sticky from accidentally squashed berries ( Read more... )

Melou has now spoken with both Mordred and Lucivar, and he's pretty sure that things are, at least for the moment, stable--which means that he must do the most important thing and apologise SO MUCH to Miranda for his brother.

So he goes looking for her, with a great deal of concern on his mournful face.

Melou is being very good. He has talked to his father on behalf of his brother, and is planning to do the same with his mother; he has decided that he likes his grandmother still, even if she a little frightens him; and at the moment he is applying his real-world skills of living on grass if necessary to finding some scavenged food for the Mansion ( Read more... )

Melou has escaped from the absolutely disastrous encounter with his father and his father's enemy-friend, and been savagely reminded of a fact he's always known, but which has seemed lately distant: he is utterly a coward. He is a shame. For all the training and effort his father expended, he is capable, but he is too scared, and too stupid when ( Read more... )

Melou is definitely still getting used to the idea of his father being home, and specifically of his father not being an angry angry man who yells a lot and expects Melou to call him My Lord. Moreover he is working on the idea that his grandmother maybe does not tell exactly the truth all the time, that somebody hurt his lady a long time ago and he ( Read more... )

Melou has met the love of his life...! At least as far as he's concerned. And since she asked to meet his family, despite the fact that they're all insane and scary, he is willing to concede to make her happy. For which reason he is searching for his aunts and mother, and what uncles he might chance to find, on the hopes that he can beg them to ( Read more... )