A reimagining of the scene with Julian in the forbidden garden in Chapter VI Part II: A Gift and a Curse. What if the guards passed the garden by entirely and Julian and the Apprentice had more time? Julian is a cis man; Apprentice's gender and body are unspecified.

Will dreams. It's complicated.

Bad things happen to Billy Hargrove.

(The one with the wound-fingering. )

Morf experiences Dease's work at closer range than intended.

October 14: En route to Varna, Seward must tell a fellow suitor what transpired one night at Hillingham.

Caleb lives. Nathan lives. Not for very long, though.

Dr. Bowman loses himself in space. HAL is all too happy to find him again.

"He has been passed a forearm on a tray and touched it with an an electrified probe to watch the fingers spasm, he has examined the blueprints for the structures of David’s throat, the samples of cloth intended for his jumpsuits." For this prompt.

And, well. If Cui-mama wanted her number to stay decorative, she wouldn't have plugged it into Jin San's phone the moment she decided they had earned the dubious honour of being one of Huanyi's chosen regulars. Nor would she have constructed a reputation as ostentatious nightlife host-cum-den mother for every cracking egg hitting Changping's pavement.