Some people are harder to get a hold of than others - Enfys will want her friend Luke there (would want, he corrects himself, and hates it), and somehow Garath will figure out how to contact him, he's just not sure yet. Sagramore, too, is a bit of a nuisance to pin down and not exactly someone he can just call on the phone. So he doesn't; he works ( Read more... )

He had thought, by now, that he was surely done with this.

He had been a bit arrogant, he sees now, but that's not really anything newIt strikes him as some cosmic unfairness that it's Fred who has to tell him - who has to tell anyone - and so it'll fall to him to do the rest. There'll be a lot to organize, and goodness knows the girl wouldn't ( Read more... )

You are forty-two and bone-tired when you stop lying to yourself.

It won't be easier tomorrow. It will ache as it aches now; the dull and heavy weight of your failure. You weren't there when she died (you should have been), and in her wake you became weak. Didn't you deserve it, that weakness? Hadn't you been so strong, for so long? A father to ( Read more... )

( a rough and incomplete timeline of events )