There were advantages to the change in environment. Damian would be loathe to admit to as much, but having grown used to Gotham's rooftops and larger than life architecture, there's a comfort in the city. Cities lend themselves better to Batman's brand of vigilantism than Tabula Rasa's default setting. Though the ghosts that populate the city aren' ( Read more... )

Nikola was in love... with Victorian London; the sights, the smells, the sounds, the fashion and of course more importantly it was the glorious dawning of a second industrial age led by the scientific genius mind of, you guessed it, Nikola Tesla. And a few others of course but mostly Tesla. Definitely not Edison. And in Victorian London? Nikola ( Read more... )

At last week's carnival, Francis had shown a remarkable lack of restraint--dragging Camilla on roller coaster ride after roller coaster ride and eating himself sick on corndogs and cotton candy. Though he'd always disdained the sort of corn-fed, wholesomely Midwestern version of summer entertainments such fairgrounds always seemed to represent, ( Read more... )

There was something in the room with her. Look, Lois might not have been in the whole superhero-vigilante business herself but she knew when someone was lurking behind her and when someone was watching her. And from the prickles on the back of her neck, someone or something was watching her. Something behind her, okay Lane you can handle this. ( Read more... )

I know Thor the same way I know most mythological figures.

You know. Socially.

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I'm holding the first class in the gallery, at Anthony Blunt's leave. The room is airy and more than large enough for the number of students who signed up. Some of the faces are more familiar than others, though I'm starting to recognize most of the island's inhabitants on sight, even if we haven't been introduced. There are chairs set out with ( Read more... )

Loki had been on the island for over a month now. Thus far he had kept something of a low profile, with the exception of his weekend spent as a child. A great deal of his time had been spent near Thor's residence, both brothers watching each other carefully for the first weeks until something slightly closer to their earlier relationship ( Read more... )

Around now, back on Berk, it would have been time to start harvesting whatever the rough earth had let them grow. It wouldn't have been much, a lot of small, scrubby plants, and none of them tasty, but it would have kept them alive, and that was always worth being thankful for. The affair would have been pretty plain, a slightly larger bonfire, a ( Read more... )

The Mighty Thor in miniature had not cut his usual silhouette as he strode valiantly through Tabula Rasa's jungles over the past few days, but though his frame be but tiny, his ego seems larger in comparison. The simplest of boasts become impressive feats when coming from the mouth of an apparent child, his body not aged a day over twelve mortal ( Read more... )

There are a lot of neat contraptions in the island compound. There's something that makes all the rooms cool at the same time, so much so that I had to go downstairs to the box people told me about to find a sweatshirt, like what boxers wear when they're practicing. It's grey and too big but it keeps me warm when I'm in the compound rooms too long ( Read more... )