aldersprig: (AylaWorried)
Chapter 5: Leofric
by Inspector Caracal


Thursday, September 14, 2000

Leofric squinted one eye, the other still buried in his pillow, and peered through his hair at the digital clock across the room. A seven, a five, a one... which blinked over into a two as he watched. Seven fifty two.

First period started at eight o'clock.

“Shit!” In a flurry of limbs, blonde hair and blankets, Leofric scrambled out of bed and hastily threw on clothes — shirt, change of pants, socks that don't match but who cares, one shoe — and spent a good minute frantically searching for his other shoe. No time to brush his teeth; if he made it out of the labyrinthine dormitory level in only five minutes, he'd be lucky.


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aldersprig: (Aldersprig Leaves Raining)
After Eriko


It was tempting to some small, vindictive part of Cynara to leave Eriko down there.

The cells she had built were two stories underground, encased in solid rock and paneled in thick enough hawthorn to make any Workings pretty much impossible. They were connected to the city's grid - there was electricity, and water, and air - but they were, rather than under her house, under a warehouse in a completely different sector of the city. If she wanted to, she could close the outside door, seal the earth over it, and pretend there had never been anyone there at all, and nobody except her and Eriko would ever know the difference.

They - Boom - were, however, theoretically the good guys. It would take a fae a long time to starve to death - very long, if the things Cya had learned were any indication - and it was a horrible way to die. Not among the worse, but certainly not among the easiest ways Cya knew.

Thus, she had one of the City employees detailed to sending food down three times a day, and once a week, she visited the bitch herself.
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aldersprig: (BookGlasses)
After Unrepentant. Also and unconnectedly after Fish Gotta Swim. 2500 words <.<


"And your crew? How are they, now?"

"Gone, I suppose. Eriko passed into humanity..."


It sat in Cynara's mind as the days creaked on. Dysmas was in her city. That was bad enough; he was here, walking around, free to do to anyone what he'd done to her...

...to try, at least. Boom Town looked badly on that sort of thing.

And that made her want to chew on nails and spit out bullets, as her father had been fond of saying, once upon a time. But his presence, his physical existence still on the same plane of being as her... that woke up other memories.

Zita's Keepers - well, Eris had just been crazy, and Shiva was Gone. Howard's Magnolia, they all knew where she was. Leo had Kept Gabi; they couldn't lay that mess at anyone's feet but their own.

Dysmas and Eriko were different, and now they knew where Dysmas was.
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