It might be close to midnight, or at the least, it's late in the evening, the hallways of the Mansion quiet. So quiet, in fact, that Carol might hear the distant clacking of a manual typewriter, coming from behind one closed door. After a moment or so, a man's flat tenor voice can be heard muttering, then footsteps approach, a door can be heard ( Read more... )

Recently, Stein might have been acting a bit tense, even a bit distracted. Then one morning Pascal might find some odd things about his work space: recently bloodied bandages in the trash, recently cleaned scalpels and probes, maybe a mirror on a stand, left by the work table ( Read more... )

It's been some time since Stein had a human subject on his slab, and his scalpel hand is getting twitchy. He's contemplated dissecting the male-bodied hermaphrodite that his colleague Dr. Muraki has been treating, but even Stein has established boundaries that he won't cross: that includes gravid personages, regardless of gender ( Read more... )

It's been a few weeks since the earthquake, and Stein has returned to his rooms in the Mansion. He's considered finding a nook of his own beyond the basement laboratory: Muraki leaves him a bit unsettled, and while he appreciates the life-saving care that the other pale doctor gave him, he's not sure of the methods ( Read more... )