If there's one area in which Manticore had failed to prepare him, it'd been in the culinary arts. Of course, it's always possible it would have come up at some point had the place not been burned to the ground, but as it is Alec's never really had to figure out how to cook anything in his life. Somehow, he hadn't figured it could be too hard ( Read more... )

It's not that he's consciously trying to count the days since he got here, but it just seems to happen, like a nagging in the back of his mind, adding onto the mounting confusion and frustration that he's not willing to own up to. The number's useless anyway, doesn't change anything one way or the other ( Read more... )

Show me what you got.