Arya was watching the sky, but not because she was trying to spot the space station she'd been told was up there. She couldn't quite wrap her head around the idea, no matter that she'd had space and the idea of travel in it explained to her years ago, she still ended up picturing it like a black sea with a kind of raft in it. Made of metal, she ( Read more... )

I'm sitting in the sand.

I don't know how long I've been here.

I didn't run away, this time. We went home, after the fired died down, a small, wooden box of ashes held in Tom's hands. We had dinner. We sat in heavy, aching silence in the living room, Mike's absence hanging thick and suffocating between us. This home that had been warm and happy ( Read more... )

Even with all the parties that I helped coordinate throughout the year, Tabula Rasa Day had become my favorite. I'm not sure who started the tradition, but civic-minded as I'd become, I appreciated the idea of us having our own, self-determined tradition that celebrated not some holiday brought from another culture, but us as a community. Half ( Read more... )

Helping Alistair wash his dog had put the thought in her head, and it had proved annoyingly hard to shake. Wolves weren't dogs. They were wild. Looking glossy and clean and domestic wasn't part of what a wolf was. And it wasn't that Nymeria was horridly dirty; wolves groomed, washing in streams, cleaning each other, and there was no shortage of ( Read more... )

"Party ( Read more... )

Dated September 3, 2010:
In which Cori Agathon-Winchester wakes alone, her tears quickly summoning first Dean, then the rest of her extended family.

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All around O-Ren, there is the quiet drumming of the rain against the roof tiles ( Read more... )

Arya didn't have a problem with getting wet. She had no issue with mud. Certainly, she didn't mind the cold; she was a Stark, and they famously had ice in their veins.

Wet, muddy and cold, however, turned out to be approaching some kind of line. At least, it was when bundled up in the fact that there simply wasn't anything you could do with this ( Read more... )

With the rain preventing any real activities outside and the day he'd spent out in it with Kate searching for Nate, Billy'd spent every minute he could inside the compound. Despite keeping dry, the problem with that was he was starting to go a little crazy ( Read more... )

O-Ren takes the stairs two at a time, and if not for the semi-darkness, the smile on her face would be easily seen by anyone at the bottom. She's smiling a lot more these days, spending her time training with the ITF, with Arya, and working on the slow transformation of her old house into a shrine ( Read more... )