Ding Rong, in his narrowed dagger-keen focus on his task, is unsure of the time when he is first made aware of Wang Zhi’s approach. He knows only by the dark of his workroom, dim-lit by his low-burned candle, that it is well into the evening. He knows only that it is no other visitor but Wang Zhi, circling into his periphery, portended by a flutter of draping fabric, because no other but Wang Zhi would dare to come unannounced.
Fitzjames contends with unparalleled excitations.
Solomon Tozer proves harder to tame than other men, and Hickey faces his own mutiny in miniature.
Susan and the man in black make a palaver.
His house has been so quiet without the volume of Tang Fan's life filling it, these last days.
Hal gets stabbed; Hickey gets invasive.
Aumerle doesn't kill his king, but he can't save him, either.
"Assume success," says Bruce unencouragingly. "Describe how it's achieved."
An unpublished footnote in the history of Henry Jekyll.
Mikey meets Pete and Alicia, who are a couple. Cue awkward fumbling-toward-a-threesome shenanigans. Thanks to handsomespeck at LJ for the beta.