From Khary that isn't intentional.

Khary has been keeping a still, wanting the supply of drink, just in case. Fortunately, it wasn't the more potent one that exploded. He's not entirely sure what happened, but there is definitely alcoholic, half-magic vapor floating around, just waiting to be inhaled. He's doing his best to contain it, but hey, at ( Read more... )

A kiss, and then more. Oh, Stephen was so beautiful and she had missed him, but she knew she couldn't continue their embrace, not when her own feelings were so mixed up, not when they weren't even married.

She was angry, angry at him for leaving and angry at herself for not being able to figure out how she felt. There was too much to think about, ( Read more... )

Sam Spade is not only around, he's probably noticeably around, much more so than is normal. Spade had long ago learned that meddling in mysteries in the Mansion was as effective as slamming his head against a wall. Repeatedly. Still, Anita'd asked him to look into it, and maybe five millionth time would be a charm ( Read more... )

Walking through the dark forest as her white strappy sandals  stepped onto the leaves and cracked them. Sookie kept her eyes on the ground thinking about the death of her 'Gran' and what a horrible sight it was to come home to. Making her way out of the forest she soon noticed that she was no longer on the forest ground floor but a cobble stone ( Read more... )

Where Jon had felt the crunch of snow at his feet, he now heard the crackling of leaves being stepped on. It was spring out, no longer the endless winter of home. When he saw the mansion up ahead of him, he became even more confused ( Read more... )

Belize has been worrying - not that it's anything different for him.  Norman Arriaga, Belize to his friends, and to everyone he's met so far at the Mansion, has been having strange dreams - dreams full of hope and angels, full of information about the cure for the plague which hit his best friend, full of forgiveness for the monster that Roy Cohn ( Read more... )

Fair Luthien walked slowly through a meadow. The sky was blue and the wind smelled of summer. The tall grass reached her knees, although she didn't mind. She made her way through the meadow, having no idea where or why she was walking the way she was.

There was a small copse of trees at the edge of the meadow, and she started for it, wanting to ( Read more... )

Here is a little girl of 7, toying with an old doll on the stairs of the Mansion.  She's talking to herself, or to her toys, who knows? Today is her birthday, but she hasn't fussed about it.

Her auntie (is she her mummy ?  she forgets sometimes), is away more and more on mysterious errands, and her best friend is old, now, as are the boys she used ( Read more... )

Tyrion is greatly confused about his current surroundings. One minute he had been descending the steps of the secret passageway to his father's bedchamber, the one that used to be his when he was the King's Hand, and the next he found himself staring at a huge mansion ( Read more... )

Sansa was uncertain to how she had ended up here. One minute she was sitting next to Petyr, listening to him talk about his grand ambitions, and the next she found herself standing in front of this strange looking mansion ( Read more... )