Kevin is sure that what Galadan is saying is very important ( Read more... )

When Paul-who-isn't-his-father and Jaelle-who-isn't-his-mother die, Kevin dan Davor of the andain has been around twelve years old for going on twenty-five years ( Read more... )

Dave has been hardly in his apartment these last three days, busy buying presents for his father and brother (inevitably it ends up being ties, but he still spends hours staring hopelessly at different items trying to decide) and wrapping up business in his legal office for the holidays ( Read more... )

Dave knows by now the way that Kim likes her coffee - strong and black, staple of med students everywhere - and he's got it boiling as he waits for her to show up at the apartment.

The cautious way she sounded on the phone, he thinks it might come in handy.

Dave's been waiting in his apartment, pacing, for a few hours now. Wondering if after all he should have gone ( Read more... )

It was quiet, in the Temple, but not like this. That was a quiet of reverence, of hushed tones and quiet steps, the quiet of a large building full of people making an effort to be quiet. This is a quiet of stillness, of soft breeze and water and birds ( Read more... )

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Amairgen's ship arrives the day before the battle, and there they are all met, at last, and for what may be the last ( Read more... )

"You had better leave me."

He says it, and he means it, even though part of him desperately wishes he did not.

But she told him he carried Dun Maura within himself, and here and now, on Maidaladan, with his body marked by the boar, he can feel the truth of it. This is what he has been searching for all those long nights, with all those warm, beloved ( Read more... )