It's all over now. Most of Them have died; many of the Homeward Bounders have, too. The ones of Them that are left have been sent over the edge of the diminishing Place Between, and He - Uquar - has found a machine that will send people Home ( Read more... )

After this, there's been a lot of talk between Jamie and Uquar, and a lot of explanations Jamie only half-understands.

But the long and the short of it is this: there are more Homeward Bounders than there are of Them, now. And that means that if Uquar summons all the Homeward Bounders together - not just four or five children new to the Bounds, ( Read more... )

Jamie's feeling quite a bit better when Adam comes to wake him up for dinner - well enough that he's able to quite easily cover up his uneasiness at what Adam and Vanessa were discussing earlier. Well enough, too, that he manages to ask the other boy, in quite a sane way and hardly babbling at all, who the lady with the hat is in the photo over ( Read more... )

"I'm training to be a doctor," Vanessa tells Jamie, as she unwraps the towel with firm efficiency, "so you can have every confidence. I'll get this wrapped up properly for you and ( Read more... )

Jamie doesn't hear who agrees to this plan; certainly he is not at all sure that he is in favor. Nonetheless, somehow they end up moving towards a house that Jamie is feeling too grey to notice anything about except for the skeleton in the front hall.

Even in his current state, that gets Jamie's attention.

[OOC: From here.]

"I've killed you!" Joris says, and the only reason Jamie doesn't roll his eyes straight up is that - well, now it's beginning to hurt ( Read more... )

Jamie has gotten them out of the sticky situation with the tickets, and then out of the station and safely into the city. This would normally be the time for some well-placed boasting, and Jamie is about to do just that ( Read more... )

When Jamie Hamilton was sixteen years old, he might have gotten fed up with the quarrels his parents were having constantly about his future. He might have run away and lied about his age to get a job on the railroad running between his home city and London ( Read more... )

[After thisTo Jamie's relief, the world they have stumbled onto onto is pleasant and green - almost natural, with real nature noises going on all about them. And while Jamie's not normally one to appreciate nature, there are far worse things when you've been expecting dead demon-ray silence ( Read more... )

That meme thing! Comment with your character's name (past or present) and the name of one of mine, and I will tell you:

1) how my character's opinion of the named character has changed over time, or
2) why my character does or does not get along/like/other with the named pup.

Currently valid for Mary mmquitecontrary, Jamie walksthebounds, Sophie talkstohats, Jayne swinging_cod, Paul pwyll_twiceborn, and Meg balletrat if ( Read more... )