I have to admit, I was nervous about the lock-in, although I'm not sure why. I'd been nervous about my movie night, too, and people had shown up to that. Hell, Gideon had showed up to that, and he hated me and Molly Ringwald both. I tried to reassure myself that even if only a few people showed, that was still more girls than I was friends with ( Read more... )

Robbie gets a huge shock on meeting Sacharissa. To him she looks like Briony, and it's a bit of a rocky meeting that only gets rockier when Cecilia shows up. Cecilia leaves upset and Sacharissa is very curious.

Dated to 12 March.

She would give it a week, she had decided, when he didn't turn up, just to make sure that what she suspected was true, and now, seven days later, there was no question about it. Jim was gone. Annie had already had one patient disappear and another die in her months working on the island's psych staff, but neither of those losses had prepared her in ( Read more... )

If she had been a woman of the Southern Lands, born into this quiet drudgery of not being allowed to do anything fantastic or daring, Ygritte thought she might have simply thrown herself into the sea ( Read more... )

Cooking ( Read more... )

It's by far the wrong play, but Daisy's never been one to fall into categories, so when she'd woken up that morning and found him, she'd fallen to her knees and felt for a pulse, just a single beat, but there'd been nothing there ( Read more... )

Duo was surrounded by puppies, and one fully grown direwolf, and also one not-a-rottweiler. Lipwigzer. Hilarious. There were six large-footed, large-eared, slightly unbalanced and terminally adorable cubs moving in a pack, sometimes falling into an crawling over each other in their excitement over the apparent field trip. Annagovia walked at one ( Read more... )

It had been a month and a fortnight since the wedding, and yet Elizabeth was still possessed of the incandescent happiness that a newly-married woman might acquire upon her marriage, if she is fortunate enough to be able to wed for love and not out of necessity. She took great pleasure in managing their small household, and while it distressed her ( Read more... )

For an island that's supposed to be a new start, sort-of-but-not deserted and kind of a near version of utopia, there was a hell of a lot of what felt like work for Catherine in the past two months, and today, she decided to hell with it ( Read more... )

Where's my cow?
Is that my cow?
It goes Baa!
it is a sheep!
That is not my cow!A lot had changed on the island for Sam Vimes and Sam Vimes, Jr. No longer was the time father and son spent together severely limited by the elder's Vimes' work. No longer did Young Sam have to wait patiently for the 6 o'clock hour to arrive. Mornings were slowed and ( Read more... )