((POST ORDER IS DEAD, AND AARON IS THE NEW KING. LONG LIVE THE KING.)) Tom wasn't anywhere upstairs, which surprised him to no end. The last room had once been a children's bedroom, and he'd spun right in there ready to catch the guy off-guard. The man was inscrutable, he should have fucking known t...

Sarah did her best not to fidget as she continued cutting. Bridget had already cut it fairly close, so it was just a matter of not cutting it any closer . Though she tried to concentrate on that task alone, she started listening to Danya's sickening chatter. She wasn't sure how she'd been able to sh...

"What the hell is wrong with you?". He just shrugged, the joke had obviously fallen flat, as they sometimes did, though he was sure he'd detected the faintest trace of a smile on bounce's face, and there was definitely one on Aaron's. People really needed to lighten up a bit. He could unde...

Sarah's hand hovered near where it had been shrugged off, she should have known it'd be innapropriate. She'd never been great at comforting people, maybe a little better with apologies, but this wasn't one of these situations you could just hug, make up and move on from. She withdrew the hand back i...

She didn't like Danya happy. A happy Danya meant everything was going to plan. A happy Danya meant things were going wrong. Things like 21 more of her classmates being dead. FUCK. What the fuck was wrong with people? Didn't they realise their best chance of survival rested on them not fucking killin...

The silence made her anxious. Bridget was probably sick of her crying and tantrums and uncertainty. And that was okay, she was sick of it too, but what if it was enough to make her leave? What if the group broke up because she couldn't hold it together? She didn't want to think about it, trying to t...

((Richard continued from My Kingdom for a Plan )) Richard had gone exploring. And as he had been exploring, as much as he didn't want to admit it, he had gotten lost. So lost. He was like that knight that had been moved all the way up to H8, but then had NOWHERE to go. That lost. Yeah. Or better, lo...

It wasn't just that she was up at an ungodly hour of the morning that made Sarah's mind feel slow and unwieldy. She'd spent the better part of the day before just thinking, constantly, about just how they were going to survive this. She'd written a lot , but now she felt burnt out, like her thoughts...

((*note: thread is pm-private.*)) ((Sarah Xu Continued from D-Day )) Sarah woke up wondering where her alarm clock was, where her pillow had gone, and why she felt so much less comfortable. Those thoughts passed quickly as the PA blared flatly from some treetop nearby. It didn't echo much in the for...

Harun's words... hurt, actually. She wasn't prepared to admit it but her heart was racing and she felt the same feeling of speechlessness she'd faced when Peter was threatening her. Even after his apology she didn't quite know where she stood, whether they actually wanted her around or not, and whet...

Sarah dug her hands into the sand, squeezing handfuls of the silicate as if she could extract escape from them if she tried hard enough. The granules stabbed at her palms, the force making it feel like her hands were burning. She needed to take her anger out on something, and she was the only thing ...

In Richard's mind weapon distribution was quite simple. The girls should have the best weapons because it levelled the playing field. Besides, he just felt more comfortable with people like Lily holding onto deadly weapons. She seemed less likely to get into the sort of leadership feud that already ...

The thundering of the stairs behind her didn't disturb, but rather reassured Mia. It was nice of the boys to finally come up and have her back, to move. Having them around to keep their eyes out for an ambush would be ever so useful. Before she had time to wonder why there was only one set of footst...

Though what Dutchy might have been up to gnawed at the back of her mind the entire time, Sarah had finished stitching Kimberly's arm back together, and began carefully threading the little piece of string back around itself. Knotting it a third time, she felt pretty confident the stitching would hol...

Raina yelped as she hit the ground and kick after kick crammed into her body. The first blow had completely disoriented her, and the ones that came after rendered her more and more senseless. She held her arms out in front of her face, palms outstretched, somewhere between defence and appeasement; p...