Throughout my few months here, I've noticed that many people seem to be incredibly talented when it comes to self-defense, but I imagine there must be people here who have no experience with it. So I thought I'd offer to help anyone who wants to learn hand-to-hand or weapon combat. If you're interested, please let me know and I'd be more than happy ( Read more... )

It's so cold. And the thing about cold is that you never get used to it. Not after hours. Not after years. The cold would have gotten you before the hunger did, if this place wasn't what it is. If you weren't what you are. If you could die.

There is a loud thud to your left. You look up, but dully, because you already know what it signifies. Another ( Read more... )

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[ The sky is a patchwork of three patterns. Beautiful and familiar red and gold. Blue with fluffy white clouds, bright and inviting. Deadly green shot with lightning ( Read more... )

[ The Forge is recording again - but it's not one of the traumatic memories visited upon Freya tonight, but a surprisingly pleasant one. ]
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[ It all starts with a tumble to the ground. Well, the video feed does, at least. Not much else is tumblin' aside from the golden curls which cascade down Benten's shoulders, and maybe Liam's dignity. The camera provides a bottoms-up view of an (intimate) couple seated upon a plush chair: a brunette with a lap full of blond, all slender limbs, ( Read more... )

[The feed turns on to show Tony. He's sitting in a chair at a workbench which is covered with all manner of things. Some tools. Some parts. Some half-finished projects that have yet to see fruition. With his active mind, no doubt he's got ten different things going on at once to fit every one of his whims. For now, he sets a hand on top of a ( Read more... )

( this song is a secret from a place where i have been )

[He is your brother and he is the rightful King of France. It burns in your veins which each heartbeat. It makes your breath catch in your throat. The man you've loved for so long. The man who got a child on you. The man who you are going to marry because of that unborn child.

Were going to marry. Because now you've told him you can no longer ( Read more... )

[Warmth.   Light.   Anticipation.

He was surrounded on all sides by others. Hundreds. Thousands. Formless. Waiting and basking in the love and safety and comfort of their home. Together and focused for one purpose. Hope. Light. Birth.


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