Brutus' surrender is attended with greater hospitality than he could have anticipated.

Back in England, Jopson and Crozier invent new formalities for themselves.

Edward receives an education in the inutility of virtue. The Earl abducts him for a session of discipline.

or: anything that can go wrong in your tentative courtship of a miserable ginger vigilante, will. The first time Dan sees Rorschach without his mask, it doesn't go so hot.

Near misses in the Greek tutorial.

When Primo returns from Rome the boy is dead. It doesn't last.

Mobei Jun is aware that humans aren’t as adept to the cold as demons, especially ice demons. What he didn’t realize is just how susceptible Shang Qinghua is to the cold.

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

Sui Zhou was never made for precisive work with frangible things, but that has not once stopped Tang Fan from taking him in hand and seeing him put to that purpose.

“I’m sorry,” he says, breathless and utterly unrepentant. He kisses at the corner of Sui Zhou’s mouth, petting down the column of his throat, tracing his fingers along the kick of his pulse. “Guangchuan, you poor thing, my good boy, come here.”