Some time in the middle of the night, Near had climbed out of bed. He's taken up a pen and started drawing, across one of the rough-hewn walls. Geometric patterns that tremble their way obsessive-compulsively along the grain of the wood. Dawn comes, and goes, and his hand begins to ache.

"Matt!"

He sits bolt upright in bed. It's four, five in the morning. But it's important.

He rushes about the mansion until he finds Matt, then throws his arms about him from behind.

"Guess what?"

There are good nights and there are bad nights. This is one of the worst. He struggles out of Matt's arms, and stumbles into the hall and starts to run. He doesn't know where to- there's a corner, another corner, a staircase. He goes up it. A room, bookshelves, a back door, another staircase, another set of halls. If he stops running, ( Read more... )

It's one of those situations: sink or swim, all or nothing, now or never, do or die.

He can hear Matt moving in the bedroom.  He's in the bathroom, curled up in the bottom of the shower.   The idea of standing to get him... it's appealing, but the amount of effort it would require seems just too much to even contemplate.  So he tries;

"Matt?"

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Although someone bringing in Losty's Light?
...
Would be awesome.
Interesting.
What's he like?
Crazy.
Really batshit.
More batshit than stalky is?
Old.  Hanging onto power in a corrupt regime by the skin of his teeth.
Megalomaniacal.
*nodnod*
Think like... Stalin with a god complex and borderline personality disorder.
Oooh.
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The field is replaced today with a coastline.  Rocky and grey.  Not what he really appreciates at all, too much like home.  He walks to the edge and starts looking for ways downwards. 

Name you are known by:
Your real name:
Coffee or Tea:
Family:
Fave motifs:
Perfume, or "grab their jacket and take a whiff":
Best fitting insult:
Tell me something obvious about yourself:
Tell me something about yourself that I don't know:
What is your biggest fear:
Do you normally take the safe route or the shortcut:
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"Kohlberg was a psychologist who argued that human beings took a moral journey throughout their lives, that could have five of the following six steps ( Read more... )

"If L then N; L, therefor, N.  If L then N; not L, therefor, not N.  Valid ( Read more... )