It’s late night, or early morning-Cuthbert’s never been choosy about drawing a distinction between the two. He and Susan are in his room-they don’t spend every night together, but the ones they spend apart are rapidly becoming more and more rare ( Read more... )

Cuthbert is not avoiding the bar and the chance that he might see either Roland or Alain and break around them.

Really, he's not.

It's just that the weather's really nice out right now.

Which is why he's sprawled on the grass near the lake with his hat over his face, and not in the bar.

As dawn turns into daylight outside, they finally part company with Roland, watching him head up the stairs and then disappearing down the staff hallway themselves ( Read more... )

Somewhere in the gray, soft-focus area between night and morning, it rains.

Instincts honed since earliest childhood respond to the sound, but sluggishly. Cuthbert’s senses part with sleep reluctantly, and it’s some time before a simple awareness of warmth and softness and sweetness

(jasmine, rose, honeysuckle)resolves itself into Susan in his ( Read more... )

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Cuthbert's settled into his new room in the Staff Quarters easily enough, partially because he hadn't been in his room upstairs long enough to get attached, partially because he still doesn't have that much stuff to fill a room with ( Read more... )

As refreshing as being able to relax for once has been, gunslingers leading a stationary life need to keep in shape ( Read more... )

Everyone makes mistakes, Cuthbert tells himself.

Especially when there's a lot on a person's mind, and the gods know he has enough to think about.

Has he been an idiot to let this sneak up on him? He doesn't think so, not really. They're both dead, after all. And Susan is his best friend's

(former--former, now, and that's not going to change) ( Read more... )

So. Figure I should stop having all my analyzing/Millicanon backstorying of Cuthbert take place in chat at three in the morning. And, to avoid clogging mun journal with still more Milliways stuff, the observations I have collected so far are going in here ( Read more... )

Oh, look, a bandwagon.

Tell me something about Cuthbert or Alice that I don't know.