Raguel makes coffee carefully ( Read more... )

It's not so hard to track them down once he knows what he's looking for. The trouble is that it's normal to find a lot of extremely shady characters turning up in the more populated places he frequents. But those characters don't usually have a certain wolflike bodyguard looming at the front of their minds like a vindictive thundercloud. And ( Read more... )

It's late - or very early, depending how one measures these things - and the only light in the hospital room is a gentle glow from the medical ships coming and going outside the half-curtained window. Two security guards stand alert outside the door and another six are on guard at various points leading to the Senator's room, a comforting presence ( Read more... )

Raguel is lurking ( Read more... )

Somewhere on the edges of the Georgia system, most of the former inhabitants of a smallish mining settlement have long ago given up and moved on. The ones that didn't leave the moon went underground when the explosions hit. Here, then, news travels more slowly; even the passage of the IIGA, the biggest thing to hit these forgotten waste lands in ( Read more... )

With every step, the wait-staff's shoes squeaked an irregular rhythm on the floor of the restaurant - which, while lacking the low-grade class of a real diner, still made some pretension towards the traditional checkerboard floor and cracked leatherette seating. In a diner, though, you might reasonably expect some decent food, and here in the ( Read more... )

Morning sunlight creeps gently through a crack between the curtains, illuminating a table, a comfortable-looking chair, a soft rug on the floor. And somehow, it manages to seek out the one position in the room where it can sweetly illuminate a single, peacefully slumbering face ( Read more... )

The Griffith Observatory is even more deserted than usual at this time of night, the renovation crews long gone and the few lights at the windows having little point other than as a deterrent for burglars. The construction lights are off, and while signs scattered around the hilltop fence proclaim this a HARD HAT AREA, no one would take note of ( Read more... )

It was quite a surprise to run into Jabiel in one of the few shadowed streets in Los Angeles. Less surprising was the argument that followed.

"Look, the second I feel like I can fly for long enough to make the journey, I'm going home," Raguel insisted, eyes flashing.

"No, you aren't. You won't get in," hissed the angel in the alleyway. He ( Read more... )

It's a long drive from Los Angeles to Sedona, but when Raguel finds himself feeling oddly restless after a chase that leaves him near the California border, it seems a shame not to keep going ( Read more... )