How do you look stern and forbidding, authoritative, poised and composed when you’ve just had a Ravnos submerge you in a hallucination that results in a beating heart? Can a Ravnos make your heart beat? Is there a vampiric discipline that can ( Read more... )

I frowned faintly as I pushed open the door to the huge room in which Conclave would be held. Something was wrong ( Read more... )

“Is it true?” he asks me, mere moments after I feel well enough to walk outside. I search his face to see the pain and the shadows of rage. “Is it true ( Read more... )

Inside her there's longing
This girl's an open page
Book marking - she's so close now
This girl is half his age

Don't stand, don't stand so
Don't stand so close to meShe lies awake at dusk, as she has on most evenings for the past few weeks, languid and peaceful in the relative warmth of her bed. Everything feels different. Sensations are much ( Read more... )

“I've upset you...What is it?”

’Jandro...Oh, how could I not think you would blame yourself? How could I not think you would notice?“No!” She is too quick to reassure him. “...no. No, you haven't upset me. If anything - I've upset myself, which I do on occasion ( Read more... )

Senor De L'Oscuro,

I write on behalf of His Grace Alexandreus in the matter of J.B. Kage, as I am currently the nearest of His Grace's archons to you.

First, His Grace wishes me to assure you that he is both aware of and interested in your concerns.

She'd risen to hear the sounds of Skylark waking with her. She'd heard Rene and Layla rise, too ( Read more... )

How do I write this? How in the name of all that is good and beautiful in this world do you write something like this ( Read more... )

Richard has gone back to his home. I feel I was too harsh with him, though he spoke so insensitively of Lana, but there was no time to apologise any better than I did. I will try again when I next see him ( Read more... )

She'd taken a few moments to sing her unfinished hymn for Alejandro. And then the sheriff of Richard's court had been by the house, asking about the jacket.

She hadn't really noticed what he'd said. Her own song was making her think.

Touch in me ( Read more... )

OOC: Yeah, I know. I'm going a little crazy with the postings. You shall see why shortly (other than my being bored at work). There's a rather drastic thing that's technically about to happen to our poor, dear Alex, and I feel as though I have to kind of work my way through some stuff I've done with STs and friends, and then into the mess itself to ( Read more... )