Riley's mouth is set thin and tight as he steps through the door of the room that he and Chloe share, iPod clutched tight in one hand and small, flat case of tools in the other.

On a crumpled sheet of notebook paper, left on Riley's pillow --

Hey -

You looked so peaceful, I didnt want to wake you up. My friend Coyote (actually a coyote sometimes, it's a long story) needed last minute help with some tech stuff in Utah. It sounds like a pretty simple job, I should only be gone a day or two at the most ( Read more... )

The three of them walk the grounds in a loose line, through the grass, among the trees. Everything is lush and green and blooming, in the height of the Mid-Atlantic coast summer ( Read more... )

Riley is upstairs.

It happens, from time to time. As much as he is entertained by the goings on downstairs, sometimes, you've just gotta sprawl across the bed and kick ass at Tetris.

And then fall asleep, in the middle of kicking said ass, laptop still on your stomach.

The room that Riley and Chloe share has been his room more than their room, ( Read more... )

Life has been weird ( Read more... )

Riley did not slam his foot down on each step, as much as he wanted to ( Read more... )

It’s downright creepy under Trinity Church. There are platforms and elevators and long spiral staircases, all built out of wood, all 200 years old, and all leading down, down, down deeper into the ground. Even with the torches that they’re all carrying, it’s dark ( Read more... )

Life is problematic.

Riley ducks out of Milliways. He finds Abigail. They start running again. Outside of the market, Abigail drops the Declaration of Independence into the street and starts to go after it. Riley yanks her out of the path of an oncoming Mack truck ( Read more... )

It's a bright and sunny morning in the city of brotherly love (Riley doesn't have any brothers, so he can only assume that flipping someone the bird is a particularly brotherly thing to do, as he has already had it happen to him three times), and Riley Poole has a job to do ( Read more... )

Riley is quiet the whole way to Philadelphia. Ben and Annoying Lady are too busy arguing to notice. Ben asks once if he's too tired to drive, but Riley says he's fine (and he is; he slept on the couch at Milliways for two nights before coming back here, but he can't exactly say that) and Ben goes right back to trying to convince Abigail that what ( Read more... )