Sooraya is downstairs, looking pensive. Her Security badge is pinned to her upper sleeve, visible, as she sits near the fire. The last few days have given her a lot to think about, but she can do that as well here as anywhere.

[oom: Lost and found]Guppy looks positively furious right now. Though his anger is not directed at the baby he's still left holding ( Read more... )

Sooraya had come to Milliways from the Institute, a day or two ago, and had run into a friend who needed her to stay for a while, after some nightmarishly bad news. After Nancy and she talked a bit, it was agreed that they'd share room 216 while Nancy stayed at Milliways, and Sooraya had a second key acquired ( Read more... )

JFK Airport in New York is what Sooraya thinks of when she tries to imagine a front lobby in Hell. Crowded, hot, noisy, and lines long enough to drive even her to drink. So the Bar's welcome enough after the trip and a couple of necessary stopovers ( Read more... )

[OOMs: Sooraya heads to Afghanistan in search of a missing person. It doesn't go well.

Her search takes an odd turn(millitimed to before she last spoke to Ray Stantz and Barbara Gordon)

Meanwhile, back at the Institute, bad news is received]

Here's a question for you. How do you depress a parapsychologist who's been through everything up through and including facing several gods of humanity, the Bringer of Chaos, and Great Cthulhu and still came out compos mentis?

Answer: make him read about politics.

Ray's going home tonight, because if he has to read one more book about U.S. ( Read more... )

The Door was unexpected, and for once, not entirely welcome. Sooraya shrugs ( Read more... )

Time passes quickly when you're busy, and there is very, very little that keeps you busier than recovering civilization at the same time as unlearning the habit of flinching at the skies. From the time of the destruction of the London male to the time of Suzi's and Deitmar's bamfing into Quinn's world was around six months; from that time to today ( Read more... )

Sometime during the afternoon, a (still 'height-impaired') Afghan girl finally has to decide to go home. She's no closer to understanding yet why she's here, but to sit around by itself won't fix that ( Read more... )

Sooraya still doesn't understand why the Bar or any magical place wants her, but after opening and closing the 'grocery store' door several times trying to make it stop being Milliways ( Read more... )