Peter was asleep ( Read more... )

A couple of hours after Peter had finally gone to bed, Suriyawong had knocked on his door and cleared his throat. Ah, right: any urge to flop around like a pathetic, whiny whale, the way he might have done two years ago, that would have to wait. There was work to be done ( Read more... )

To say that the day had not gone the way Peter would've liked it - even if he'd seen this one coming a century ago, albeit in a completely different, less ridiculous form - would be an understatement. He'd been prepared; even practically, with at least one aide who'd been shadowing much of the work Envy had been doing while she was here and who was ( Read more... )

It was funny. Peter had never thought of himself having a personal life worth mentioning, until it had started slipping right away from him. He couldn't say he was burying himself in his work, because he always did so regardless, but it was an all-devouring distraction; one that saw him running on adrenaline the moment he opened up his personal ( Read more... )

Peter had been putting this off ( Read more... )

Well, after that whole fit of whatever with Envy yesterday, Peter wasn't sure what to think - and he was halfway certain he'd lost her already. Or would, in the not so distant future. So of course he was doing the sane thing-- throwing himself into his work, instead of thinking about the small pit that was starting to form in his stomach ( Read more... )

From "Note to Hegemon: You Can't Fight an Epidemic ( Read more... )

From: Weaver%Virlomi@Motherlndia.in.net
To: PeterWiggin%private@hegemon.gov
Re: Conversation

I have never met you, but I admire your achievements. Come visit me.

From: PeterWiggin%private@hegemon.gov
To: Weaver%Virlomi@Motherlndia.in.net
Re: Conversation ( Read more... )

It had been an exhausting and exhilarating few weeks since Peter made the Free People of Earth public. The most immediate troubles, of course, involved the territories he had eked out within the boundaries of other nations. Peru and Sudan had not declared war, but that was only because they had no one to declare war against: neither country ( Read more... )

This was it, Peter thought, as he stared down the long tunnel that ended in the stairs. No going back now. No handholding, either-- this ceremony, this announcement, would be held with his collection of world leaders at his side while people like N-- Envy and his parents waited in the wings until it was over ( Read more... )