Judging by the news you'll have your hands full, Crowley, so it's entirely possible you won't be finding time to find this note; if you should, though, please accept my most heartfelt apologies for my absence. There are things which Must Be Done, and direct orders are so very much harder to overlook than gentle proddings in one direction or another ( Read more... )

Aziraphael had convinced himself it was ridiculous superstition, and nothing more. Aziraphael had convinced himself that if anything were likely to -

- they would have told him, obviously. The last time aside, the defiance and the Last Stand and the ineffable arguments aside they would have told him. Of course. And he had the carpet rolled back ( Read more... )

Aziraphael's sitting in his bookshop.

It's nothing so very surprising.

The only thing that might, perhaps, strike the casual observer as a little odd is the fact that there are customers browsing and he still appears to be smilingPerhaps it's just that sort of day. Perhaps it's the fact that beams of sunlight are managing to wend their way past ( Read more... )

There's a stack of books on the floor by the sofa, piled unevenly and teetering. Aziraphael's tried Wilde, Dampier, Woolf, Rilke and Whitman, none of which have quite managed to distract him from the fact that the sun is starting to slant through the glass that fronts the shop, a rectangle of warm light creeping slowly across the floor of the back ( Read more... )

The theatre's just a minute's walk from St James' Park, so it makes sense for the two of them to meet there without having to make it about any issues other than convenience. It's been raining a little throughout the afternoon; just enough to freshen the air and discourage most casual walkers. The late afternoon sun is warm now, though, slanting ( Read more... )

Crowley,

I shall see you tomorrow morning, no question about it; unfortunately my whereabouts tonight will be rather less comfortable and rather more distant from the bar than I'd like. Drink an Atlantean in my honour, and I shall look forward to seeing you.

- Aziraphael

Crowley -

advance warning in case things do go so badly as they might. It's been something of a busy day, and it's really not looking as though I'll be able to drag myself away as soon as I would. But I forbear; I shall be certain of spending time with you tomorrow with nary an interruption, if I see this little matter through to the finish ( Read more... )

Contained in the package:

Some Irish coffee chocolates from Thorntons, a small babygro entirely covered in ducks, and a king duck - he couldn't for the life of him manage to find a queen, more's the pity.

And, of course, a little something for Bernard.

It's the sort of weather which reminds him why he lives where he does. Cool grey streets that end in squares of sunshine, tiny parks of vibrant green and even the market stalls selling bootlegged goods are gilded. He tips a non-existent hat to the scantily-clad woman leaning in a doorway, skirts a couple of gentlemen squaring up to each other on ( Read more... )

To the tune of that major general song. Obviously ( Read more... )