Teddybear

Her head shot up the moment he spoke, a bolt of panic shooting through her as - for a split second - she was back in the manor, getting caught, ...

Megara wandered with the general group for a little while, seeing Ciel head off toward the kitchens, presumably to see if she could offer some assistance, polite little noble that ...

"Yes," she confirmed, "The university that teaches trans-dimensional spells is in the realm of the mer. The specific student we're going to is a prodigy of such magics." Ciel was ...

She would get mad at Jason's ability to be optimistic if she wasn't so grateful for it. The hopelessness that twisted her insides, made them stone and forced them to ...

Eddie giggled, "I'm bigger than you Meggie!" he announced, waving at her from his perch. Her immediate instinct was to cross her arms, but she had to quell it if ...

She thought for a moment, focusing on his question with maybe too much intensity. She wasn't going to be honest about why. "...You're not afraid of the water, are you?" ...

Thing that I should have/may have mentioned earlier, anyone who makes physical contact with Winter in any way is going to find her really, really cold. Like, 'I-just-stuck-my-hand-in-a-snowbank' cold.

The Anima Homicidii obliged. She was getting more used to the smooth movements required to participate in these dances, and, thankfully, this was a form of dance with which she ...

His words were wrong. They ended too early, as if he had to cut himself off to keep something back. Something he wanted to say? She closed her eye gently, ...

Megara dutifully pretended not to hear while Eddie's eyes went wide. He gave a big nod and, without waiting to be picked up, leaped to throw his arms around James's ...

She couldn't tell if she'd hurt him, and somehow that made everything hurt worse. Actors, they both were. Acting for an audience that wasn't there. She blinked slowly, wanting to ...

Megara was more than glad for the distraction. "I had a plan before, a long-game deception to get my...former employer rejected by his own people and thus destroyed by them. ...

"Teasing isn't nice!" Eddie insisted. Megara rolled her eyes and shifted his weight, leaning a little more heavily on her cane. He was going through a growth spurt as of ...

She might have started crying right then. Gods knew she wanted to. It hadn't felt so real before. It was too nightmarish. Too absolutely worst-case-scenario to be a part of ...

'Whenever you can' could easily be never. She didn't share that thought aloud. Eventually, he would run out of favors and he would stop showing up, even if he did ...