Soopah sekrit to nwhepcat : Ooooo! Pretty! Thank you for the card!

Okay, I lied a little. It's been a writing kind of night and this was ready to go.

Besides, I want to get back to Xander's creeping and increasing presence as much as the rest of you. And I wrote the damn thing.

Also, there's a nor'easter coming our way that's going to make our lives miserable. So much for my fun weekend. I get to be trapped inside my apartment and (*gasp*) cleaning it instead.

(sticks fingers in ears and sings 'la-la-la-la' as I ignore doing my taxes because I know I'm going to owe again this year)

For the Scatterlings and Orphanages Africander Fiction Challenge by ludditerobot.

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[Unknown site tag]“It was so quiet,” Dave said in whisper. “It so very, very quiet that I thought I had gone deaf. From all that noise to nothing. No evidence that anything happened, except for these two complete strangers staring down at me like they weren’t sure what they were going to do about me.” 

( And what are you? Alive. Everything else is negotiable... )